SPECIFICS OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING IN ANGLO-SAXON COUNTRIES

In contemporary considerable differentiation of psychological, philoso phical and worldview starting points of psychological counseling the a uthor emphasizes the specifics of psychological counseling based at Ch ristian worldview. The importance of adopting (and knowing) the comple te worldview that influences the counseling process is pointed to. Fou r characteristic points of Christian counseling are analysed: specific assumptions, specific aims, specific methods and specific counsellor' s characteristics.