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This paper examines David G. Benner's short-term structured model of strategic pastoral counseling, praising it for the way it empowers the counselee rather than inducing dependency, and focusing on how it would apply to an elderly counselee.

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"David G. Benner's book "Strategic Pastoral Counseling: A Short-Term Structured Model" provides excellent insights into the practice of strategic pastoral care and counseling. In his book, Benner provides a model for pastoral counseling that involves short-term counseling designed to redirect the counselee, noting that long-term counseling is something that most pastors cannot manage, given their overbooked schedules, but also something that does not really belong within the domain of pastoral counseling. Most pastors are simply not equipped to provide long-term psychiatric counseling. However, Benner's approach is..."

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