TY - BOOK AU - Steinke,Peter L. TI - How your church family works: understanding congregations as emotional systems SN - 1566991102 U1 - 250 Steinke PY - 1993/// CY - [Washington, D.C.] PB - Alban Institute KW - Pastoral psychology KW - Family psychotherapy KW - Church management N1 - Bibliography: pages [127]-128; pt. 1. Conceptualizing emotional processess: -- The concept of a system -- Anxiety and reactivity -- Separateness and closeness -- Stability and change -- Clarity and compassion -- pt. 2. The congregation as an emotional system: -- Do not go gently into that glob of glue -- Being a prophet is nice work- if you can find a job -- What shall it profit a parish if it gets over the hump but falls into the abyss -- Remembering the future -- Believing and belonging ER -