The Application of Interpersonal Communication Concepts in Pastoral Care Counseling

This report focuses on the application of interpersonal communication concepts in pastoral care counseling. Such conceptual applications will stress perception, listening, nonverbal communication, cross-cultural dynamics, power and conflict. These conceptual orientations are, in turn, applied to pastoral care counseling contexts. These applications result in enhanced understanding for how diversity and pluralism elements are inherent within these contexts and related circumstances. This report will focus on the application of interpersonal communication concepts in pastoral care counseling. Such conceptual applications will focus on perception, listening, nonverbal communication, cross-cultural dynamics, power and conflict. These conceptual orientations will be applied to pastoral care counseling contexts. The reader will observe how diversity and pluralism elements are inherent within these applications.