Internationally-recognized AACC President and financial consultants offer a practical, comprehensive, and biblical guide to counseling those struggling with money and financial issues.

The newest addition to the popular Quick-Reference Guide collection, The Quick-Reference Guide to Counseling on Money, Finances, and Relationships focuses on the ever-growing need for sound counsel on financial issues. It is an A-Z guide for assisting people-helpers--pastors, professional counselors, and everyday believers--to easily access a full array of information to aid them in formal and informal counseling situations. Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies:

(1) typical symptoms and patterns

(2) definitions and key thoughts

(3) questions to ask

(4) directions for the conversation

(5) action steps

(6) biblical insights

(7) prayer starters

(8) recommended resources

From the Back Cover

"Practical and easy to use. You'll come back to this resource over and over again in your work with couples and families."--Gary Chapman, Marriage & Family Life Consultants, Inc. and author of ***The 5 Love Languages

Nothing can slowly and imperceptibly poison a marriage like unresolved financial issues. The Quick-Reference Guide to Counseling on Money, Finances & Relationships gives pastors, professional counselors, and lay helpers the information they need to help couples work through financial issues that affect their relationships. The many topics addressed include:

budgeting and cash flow
compulsive spending or saving
credit cards, overspending, and debt
planning for large expenditures
investing and retirement
special concerns such as funding education, helping aging parents, and more

Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies typical symptoms and patterns, definitions and key thoughts, questions to ask, directions for the conversation, action steps, biblical insights, prayer starters, and recommended resources.

About the Author

Dr. Tim Clinton is president of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), executive director of the Center for Counseling and Family Studies, professor of counseling and pastoral care at Liberty University and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and a licensed professional counselor.

Bethany and Scott Palmer, "The Money Couple," are financial communication experts and the authors of Cents and Sensibility and First Comes Love, Then Comes Money.