Includes bibliographical references.

The therapeutic tradition of pastoral care and counseling / Rodney J. Hunter -- The therapeutic tradition's theological and ethical commitments viewed through its pedagogical practices: a tradition in transition / Rodney J. Hunter, John Patton -- The future of pastoral care and counseling and the God of the market / Pamela D. Couture, Richard Hester -- Single parents and poverty: a challenge to pastoral theological methods / Pamela D. Couture -- Children, mothers, and fathers in the postmodern family / Don Browning -- Aging and the conflict of generations / K. Brynolf Lyon -- Gender and pastoral care / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Herbert Anderson -- Sexuality: a crisis for the church / James N. Poling -- The challenge of abortion / Christie Cozad Neuger -- The politics of pastoral care: an alternative politics of care / Roy SteinhoffSmith -- Race, ethnicity, and the struggle for an inclusive church and society / Charles W. Taylor -- Pastoral care with congregations in social stress / Joretta L. Marshall -- Clinical pastoral education and supervision: emerging issues and changing patterns / Maxine Glaz -- Pastoral counseling and pastoral psychotherapy: the impact of social change and social difference / A.J. van den Blink -- "If one of your number has a dispute with another": a new/ancient pastoral paradigm and praxis for dealing with conflict / Carl D. Schneider -- From relational humanness to relational justice: reconceiving pastoral care and counseling / Larry Kent Graham.