Pastoral care and counselling in Scotland since 1950

Abstract

David Lyall’s paper covers the history of pastoral care and counselling in Scotland since the emergence of new movements within these disciplines in the 1950s. As teacher and practitioner David Lyall played an active role over several decades in many of the important changes in pastoral care in Scotland and he is, therefore, well placed to reflect on these developments and to offer a useful survey of the development of pastoral care and counselling in Scotland over the past sixty or so years.