PACO 501 PASTORAL COUNSELING
RESEARCH PAPER PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2026
◉ to engage with the parts of them that are most profoundly human.
Answer: Why are the spiritual and psychological aspects of people's
inner worlds prioritized in soul care?
◉ guiding. Answer: Which primary element of soul care involves
helping a person make wise choices and thereby grow in spiritual
maturity?
◉ healing. Answer: Which primary element of soul care involves
efforts to help a person overcome an impairment and move toward
wholeness?
◉ reconciling. Answer: Which primary element of soul care involves
efforts to reestablish broken relationships?
◉ sustaining. Answer: Which primary element of soul care involves
acts of caring designed to help a hurting person endure and
transcend a circumstance in which restoration or recuperation is
either impossible or improbable?
,◉ pastoral care. Answer: Which form of soul care provides blessing
and healing, reconciliation and conversion, and sanctification and
fellowship through activities that range from visiting the sick and
dying to teaching, preaching, praying, and serving communion?
◉ christian friendship. Answer: Which form of soul care involves
support and encouragement that focuses on the totality of a person,
particularly attending to the inner self?
◉ pastoral counseling. Answer: Which form of soul care involves
explicit spiritual focus, dialogue and exploration, and emphasizes
the formation of a relationship with one who is less spiritually
mature, in an effort to encourage spiritual growth?
◉ spiritual direction. Answer: Which form of soul care is Spirit-
centered rather than a problem-centered and focuses primarily on
people's relationships with God by helping them discern and submit
to the leading of the Spirit?
◉ pastoral ministry. Answer: Which form of soul care involves
preaching, teaching, and leading worship - all as a means of bringing
people into contact with God, to nurture growth and heal their
souls?
, ◉ one in which a community of genuine soul-care friendships form a
network. Answer: In which church environment can pastoral
counseling best fulfill its distinctive role?
◉ false. Answer: In both pastoral counseling and pastoral care, a
member of the pastoral care team can initiate a treatment
relationship with a parishioner.
◉ Pastoral counseling is typically more focused on a problem
brought by a person.. Answer: How is the focus of pastoral
counseling different from that of pastoral care?
◉ Pastoral counseling takes longer than activities like marrying,
burying, and visitation.. Answer: Do pastoral care and pastoral
counseling differ in their duration? If so, how?
◉ that the counselor cares for the client. Answer: What message is
communicated through warmth, understanding, acceptance, and
belief in the client's ability to change?
◉ a movement of the womb of God. Answer: How does the Hebrew
word describe the compassion of Jesus?
◉ it helps stabilize the person. Answer: How can it help a person to
discover personal worth through God?
RESEARCH PAPER PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2026
◉ to engage with the parts of them that are most profoundly human.
Answer: Why are the spiritual and psychological aspects of people's
inner worlds prioritized in soul care?
◉ guiding. Answer: Which primary element of soul care involves
helping a person make wise choices and thereby grow in spiritual
maturity?
◉ healing. Answer: Which primary element of soul care involves
efforts to help a person overcome an impairment and move toward
wholeness?
◉ reconciling. Answer: Which primary element of soul care involves
efforts to reestablish broken relationships?
◉ sustaining. Answer: Which primary element of soul care involves
acts of caring designed to help a hurting person endure and
transcend a circumstance in which restoration or recuperation is
either impossible or improbable?
,◉ pastoral care. Answer: Which form of soul care provides blessing
and healing, reconciliation and conversion, and sanctification and
fellowship through activities that range from visiting the sick and
dying to teaching, preaching, praying, and serving communion?
◉ christian friendship. Answer: Which form of soul care involves
support and encouragement that focuses on the totality of a person,
particularly attending to the inner self?
◉ pastoral counseling. Answer: Which form of soul care involves
explicit spiritual focus, dialogue and exploration, and emphasizes
the formation of a relationship with one who is less spiritually
mature, in an effort to encourage spiritual growth?
◉ spiritual direction. Answer: Which form of soul care is Spirit-
centered rather than a problem-centered and focuses primarily on
people's relationships with God by helping them discern and submit
to the leading of the Spirit?
◉ pastoral ministry. Answer: Which form of soul care involves
preaching, teaching, and leading worship - all as a means of bringing
people into contact with God, to nurture growth and heal their
souls?
, ◉ one in which a community of genuine soul-care friendships form a
network. Answer: In which church environment can pastoral
counseling best fulfill its distinctive role?
◉ false. Answer: In both pastoral counseling and pastoral care, a
member of the pastoral care team can initiate a treatment
relationship with a parishioner.
◉ Pastoral counseling is typically more focused on a problem
brought by a person.. Answer: How is the focus of pastoral
counseling different from that of pastoral care?
◉ Pastoral counseling takes longer than activities like marrying,
burying, and visitation.. Answer: Do pastoral care and pastoral
counseling differ in their duration? If so, how?
◉ that the counselor cares for the client. Answer: What message is
communicated through warmth, understanding, acceptance, and
belief in the client's ability to change?
◉ a movement of the womb of God. Answer: How does the Hebrew
word describe the compassion of Jesus?
◉ it helps stabilize the person. Answer: How can it help a person to
discover personal worth through God?
