09 Jul Connect Care-seeker to Community

After reviewing the readings and other course content,artificially move your predetermined care-seeker (i.e., CrossroadsCare-seekers: Bruce, Joshua, Brody, Justin, or Melissa) through Phase Four.

NOTE: These discussions require that you draw uponALL required course resources to substantively develop each phase in ourSolution-based, Short-term, Pastoral Counseling process. Use the followingheadings to organize your post.

• Rapport and Relational Alignment. Briefly explain how you will maintain rapport and check your relational alignment (i.e., use DISC language) to support forward progress. Also briefly describe your care-seekers behavioral position (i.e., willing, blaming, attending).
• Phase Four Distinctive Features. Narrate movement of care-seeker through Phase Fours distinctive features (i.e., purpose, goal, chief aim, role/responsibility, use of guiding assumptions) and apply pertinent insights and techniques from the required course resources.
• Supportive Feedback Break. In light of your care-seekers unique journey, what insight(s), technique(s), and resource(s) will you need to reinforce in order to support his/her forward progress in community?
• Phase 4 Marker. Describe a marker that indicates successful disengagement from counseling is underway.
• Food for Thought? In what ways do Hebrews 10: 24-25 and the following websites, located under Additional Resources, inform how to prepare your ministry or agency-based context for effective Phase 4 connections?

INSTRUCTIONSYou will post one thread of at least 450 words,and then, you must post 1 reply of at least 150 words. For each thread, supportyour assertions with a citation from each required PACO 500 course resource.There should be 6 source citations (1 citation for each required courseresource) in your initial post. Each reply must incorporate at least 1scholarly citation. Your initial post and reply should follow current APA orTurabian standards.