{"id":35393,"date":"2021-06-16T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=35393"},"modified":"2021-06-16T03:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T08:03:38","slug":"handling-counseling-related-phone-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=35393","title":{"rendered":"Handling Counseling-Related Phone Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the ministry we do as church-based counselors&mdash;whether as pastors or lay counselors&mdash;may involve calling people. We might call simply to check up on the person (a ministry &ldquo;touch&rdquo;), to offer a brief word of encouragement or prayer, or to schedule a face-to-face meeting. But some phone contacts are different. The person you call for one of the brief reasons above proceeds to open up a more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2021\/06\/16\/handling-counseling-related-phone-calls\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the ministry we do as church-based counselors\u2014whether as pastors or lay counselors\u2014may involve calling people. We might call simply to check up on the person (a ministry \u201ctouch\u201d), to offer a brief word of encouragement or prayer, or to schedule a face-to-face meeting. But some phone contacts are different. The person you call for one of the brief reasons above proceeds to open up a more serious problem and might want to talk right then about more lengthy matters we should normally reserve for a face-to-face counseling session. Or he might initiate the call to speak with you about such a pressing problem. How should we handle those kinds of calls? Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":35395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[727,708,4118,728],"class_list":["post-35393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-methodology","tag-people-who-offer-care","tag-phone-counseling","tag-the-counseling-process","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-13.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35396,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393\/revisions\/35396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}