Sin and Grace in Christian Counseling

Author: Mark R. McMinn
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830879048
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Stereotypical tendencies in Christian counseling include either emphasizing sin at the expense of grace or grace at the expense of sin. Mark R. McMinn seeks to overcome these exaggerations and enable all those in the helping professions see the proper understanding and place of both sin and God's grace in the Christian counseling process.

Cognitive Therapy Techniques in Christian Counseling

Author: Mark R. McMinn
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556356986
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Mark R. McMinn is Professor of Psychology and Director of Integration in the Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. He was previously on faculty at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he was the Rech Professor of Psychology from 1996 to 2006. Mark is a licensed psychologist in Illinois and is board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is Past-President of the APA's Psychology of Religion division. His other books include Sin and Grace in Christian Counseling (2008), Integrative Psychotherapy (coauthored with Clark D. Campbell, 2007), Finding Our Way Home (2005), Why Sin Matters (2004), Care for the Soul (coedited with Timothy R. Phillips, 2001), and Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling (1996). Mark and his wife, Lisa--a sociologist and author--live in rural Oregon. They have three grown daughters.

Why Sin Matters

Author: Mark R. McMinn
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9780842383653
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
This emotionally stirring book brings readers to realize their sin and leads them straight into the arms of a grace-giving God by using Rembrandt's ornate painting "The Return of the Prodigal Son" as an illustration.

Foundations for Soul Care

Author: Eric L. Johnson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830875271
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 718

Book Description
Eric L. Johnson proceeds to offer a new framework for the care of souls that is comprehensive in scope, yet flows from a Christian understanding of human beings--what amounts to a distinctly Christian version of psychology. This book is a must-read for any serious Christian teacher, student, or practitioner in the fields of psychology or counseling.

Counseling Couples in Conflict

Author: James N. Sells
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830868496
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
How do you counsel a couple that is heading for divorce by the time they seek help? Building on the research presented in their previous book Family Therapies, Mark Yarhouse and James Sells have developed a resource to train pastors and counselors in restoring high conflict relationships.

Unlocking Your Family Patterns

Author: David Carder
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 1575675242
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Revised and updated from the original, this honest and forthwright look at families of all shapes and sizes will help you down the path of healing (whether you know you need it or whether you're just not sure). Unlocking Your Family Patterns combines decades worth of counseling wisdom and pastoral care insights into this one practical resource. Your past may hurt, and your family's patterns may have left emotional scars, but your future has not been laid in stone yet. There is hope for healing, there are lessons to learn, and there are paths toward family health. Using clinical, biblical and practical examples to help you uncover the patterns your family has lived in, this book might lead you toward the family u-turn you've been looking for.

The New Christian Counselor

Author: Ron Hawkins
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736943552
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Seasoned counselors and professors Ron Hawkins and Tim Clinton offer a comprehensive guide that empowers Christian counselors by clarifying their task: to help people take possession of their souls...through the power of the Spirit; under the authority of the Word; in a supportive community of accountability...that they may be like Christ. The authors address head-on today's enticing new imitations of true peace and tantalizing opportunities for people in pain to anesthetize themselves. But they also highlight the foundation of hope: God loves, he empowers, and he refuses to abandon his passion for connection with his children. Case studies illustrate how to help people take possession of the thinking self, the feeling self, the decision-making self, the physical self, and the relational self. This comprehensive plan for effective intervention is perfect for lay counselors, students, and professionals looking for ways to integrate their faith and practice.

Integrative Psychotherapy

Author: Mark R. McMinn
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830875719
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 407

Book Description
Mark McMinn and Clark Campbell present an integrative model of psychotherapy that is grounded in Christian biblical teaching and in a critical and constructive engagement with contemporary psychology. This foundational work integrates behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal models of therapy within a Christian theological framework.

The Physical Nature of Christian Life

Author: Warren S. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521515939
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
This book explores the implications of recent insights in modern neuroscience that attribute mental capacities often ascribed to a disembodied soul instead to the functions of the brain and body in collaboration with social experience. It explores how this insight changes the traditional "care of souls," encouraging more attention to fostering spiritual growth through a social and communal focus.

Counseling and Christianity

Author: Stephen P. Greggo
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830863281
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
This book provides a forum for five major perspectives on the interface of Christianity and psychology to display their distinctions in a counseling context. Experts in each approach show how to assess, conceptualize, counsel and offer aftercare to a hypothetical client with a variety of complex issues.