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Finally, Chapter Three attempts to set forth an overall strategy for home visitations, using my own approach as a kind of structure, enlarging upon and firming that design with the insights of prominent practical theologians who have written on the subject throughout the same seventy or more years mentioned above, as well as the data discussed in Chapter Two. Finally, the research recommends certain directions for continued study. 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The first of these issues is the writer’s assumption that Christian commitment and psychological insights are not, by nature, antagonistic to one another. On the contrary, I begin with a belief that an appropriate use of psychological concepts can enrich pastoral ministry. The material discussed in this report will be of little interest to those who do not share this presupposition. The second issue is the use of masculine pronouns in this report to describe those who practice pastoral ministry. All those persons who were in the original research sample were male and references to these, in the interest of accuracy, are in the masculine gender. An effort was made early in the writing to shift to a more inclusive form when referring to pastors beyond this research group. The result of that effort was both awkward and confusing. 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