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Pate, Robert Hewitt was born on April 5, 1938 in Abingdon, Virginia, United States. Son of Robert Hewitt and Esther Frances (Kirk) Pate.
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The Contemplative Counselor: A Way of Being
(The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it examines ...)
The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it examines critically how the field of pastoral counseling has responded to the resurgence of interest in issues of spirituality, particularly the appropriation of various texts on spiritually-oriented psychotherapies in counseling. Second, moving beyond description, the book addresses the need to re-define the identity and practice of pastoral counselors as contemplative healers by appropriating insights from the rich tradition of contemplative spirituality, theology, and psychology, and to integrate this identity with professional standards and practices. The Contemplative Counselor extends the discourse on pastoral counseling beyond theories and techniques to include a focal description of a life lived in active contemplation. The contemplative approach to life, care, and counseling demands a daily call to surrender the underlying attitude of meritocracy that heavily emphasizes good works to produce successful results in counseling. At a fundamental level, the contemplative counselor exhibits an unwavering reliance on the grace of God, which transforms all that is descriptive of the counseling encounter. Here, being precedes becoming, and the act of counseling emanates from the deep and quiet center characterized by silence and solitude of the heart. Such counseling targets holistically body, mind, and spirit as a way of facilitating an experience of well being and transformation.
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Robert Hewitt Pate
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Robert Hewitt Pate, American Counselor educator. License professor counselor, Virginia. Elder local Presbyterian church First lieutenant United States Army 1961-1963. Member American Counseling Association, Virginia Counselors Association (president 1983-1984), National.Bd. Certified Counselors (chair 1996-1997).
Education
AB, Davidson College, 1960; Master of Education, University of Virginia, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, U. North Carolina, 1968.
Career
Marketer, Sinclair Refining Company, Abingdon, Virginia, 1960-1961, 63-64; counselor, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina, 1965-1966; professor counselor education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, since 1968; interim dean, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1994-1995; senior associate dean, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, since 1995. Member adjunct faculty Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, since 1978.
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The Contemplative Counselor: A Way of Being
(The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it examines ...)
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The Contemplative Counselor: A Way of Being
Membership
Elder local Presbyterian church First lieutenant United States Army 1961-1963. Member American Counseling Association, Virginia Counselors Association (president 1983-1984), National.Bd. Certified Counselors (chair 1996-1997).
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Married Ellen O'Neal Pope, December 11, 1960. Children: Robert Hewitt III, Mary Ellen Pate Barton.
