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Legal Issues and Religious Counseling . By Bullis Ronald K. and Mazur Cynthia S.. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993. Pp. 112. $11.99. Paper. ISBN: 0-664-25386-5.

Religious counseling often extends beyond the purely theological, dealing indirectly or directly with the mental, emotional or even physical health of the individual seeking help. Such overlap is often not accidental, but due to the fact that many religious traditions view an individual's overall health as related to his or her spiritual well-being. Indeed, issues of life and death and interpersonal relationships are some of the most frequent topics that a religious counselor will be called upon to address. Yet the activity of religious counselors in these and other areas is coming under increasing judicial scrutiny. Therefore, clergy and other religious counselors are finding it worthwhile to become familiar with the law as it relates to their work. Legal Issues and Religious Counseling is intended as a handbook for religious counselors to alert them to the potential legal dangers involved in their counseling activity and to provide them with a better understanding of how the law may affect their work. The book is co-authored by Ronald K. Bullis, a licensed professional counselor and Associate Pastor of Tuckahoe Presbyterian Church in Redmond, Virginia, and Cynthia S. Mazur, a United Church of Christ minister who is currently working as an attorney at the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington, D.C. Since the book is generally addressed to a non-legal audience, the authors have included a fair amount of background material to make the information more accessible to the uninitiated. For example, the Introduction provides a few guidelines for understanding the relevance of statutory and case law, and a glossary at the end of the book explains some common legal terms. The information given is quite general but may be helpful for the intended audience. The first of the book's eight chapters, entitled "The First Amendment and Religious Counseling: A Legal Exegesis," is also written in the style of an introduction. Despite its title, this chapter gives very little attention to how the principles derived from the