This series delves into the profound relationship between Christian faith and the behavioral sciences. It explores both clinical practice and theoretical research, offering valuable insights for students, practitioners, and academics alike. The collection aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of the human psyche within a Christian worldview. Readers will find resources to bridge the spiritual and psychological aspects of life.
Mark A. Yarhouse, Richard E. Butman and Barrett W. McRay offer this revised companion volume to Modern Psychotherapies, addressing students and mental health professionals who want to sort through contemporary secular understandings of psychopathology in relationship to a Christian worldview.
A Christian Counselor's Guide to Complex Trauma
Focusing on the challenges faced by counselors dealing with clients who have complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), this resource highlights the importance of proper training to avoid retraumatization. Heather Davediuk Gingrich shares over thirty years of experience, integrating trauma therapy research with Christian counseling insights. The book presents a three-phase treatment model, addresses dissociative identity disorder, and emphasizes resilience for counselors. Updated to align with the DSM-5, it offers new content on trauma responses and practical techniques for effective client support.
Terri S. Watson equips you to excel in "the helping profession within a helping profession" as you provide clinical supervision for other mental health workers. Grounding our thinking in the historic and contemporary wisdom of virtue ethics, this resource aims to identify and strengthen supervision's important role for character formation in the classroom, in continuing education for practitioners, and in clinical settings.
"Representing two generations of counselor education and practice, Megan Anna Neff and Mark McMinn provide practitioners with a fresh look at integration in a postmodern world. Modeling how to engage hard questions, they consider how different theological views, gendered perspectives, and cultures integrate with psychology and counseling"-- Provided by publisher