"Bible-Based Counseling: A Professional Approach to Inner Healing and Personal Growth" deals with real life issues that cause pain, conflict, and joy, and impact your life, your health, and your world. Applying these principles and lessons will help you be more effective in both work and play. You will also develop a more positive and realistic view of life.Author Mark Chapman Jr. draws on his own counseling experience to help those in need of various types of counseling. Chapman provides a preventative approach he calls a "preemptive strike," and describes the ways in which counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, or even good friends can make a difference by sharing and caring-whether through giving advice and counsel, or through their sheer presence. He also discusses more specialized mental health treatments and crisis counseling. Finally, Chapman deals with comfort, care, and counseling for the terminally ill patient."Bible-Based Counseling: A Professional Approach to Inner Healing and Personal Growth" can help you live a healthier, more fulfilling life-both mentally and spiritually.

The potent Cognitive Therapy is taught, but with the careful guidance of solid biblical principles. This introductory ebook gives an excellent framework from which to evaluate other systems of counseling, and to develop your own system of pastoral or Christian counseling. A selected bibliography points you to a rich mine of information. There are 112 pages brimming with over 50,000 valuable words and dozens of carefully selected proven concepts designed to greatly increase your knowledge and skills in pastoral and Christian counseling - from a compelling biblical viewpoint.

Since the beginning of the biblical counseling movement in 1970, biblical counselors have argued that counseling is a ministry of the Word, just like preaching or missions. As a ministry, counseling must be defined according to sound biblical theology rather than secular principles of psychology. For over four decades, biblical theology has been at the core of the biblical counseling movement. Leaders in biblical counseling have emphasized a commitment to teaching doctrine in their counseling courses out of the conviction that good theology leads to good counseling…and bad theology leads to bad counseling. A Theology of Biblical Counseling is a landmark new book that covers the history of the biblical counseling movement, the core convictions that underlie sound counseling, and practical wisdom for counseling today. Dr. Heath Lambert shows how biblical counseling is rooted in the Scriptures while illustrating the real challenges counselors face today through true stories from the counseling room. A substantive textbook written in accessible language, it is an ideal resource for use in training biblical counselors at colleges, seminaries, and training institutes. In each chapter, doctrine comes to life in real ministry to real people, dramatically demonstrating how theology intersects with the lives of actual counselees.

This Special edition of “Dynamic Biblical Counseling” is dedicated to the American homeowner. The American dream of homeownership that is available to everyone has been sold to the American public; however, not everyone is financially or educationally prepared for home ownership. It seems that the American homeowner has not the education regarding how to prevent foreclosure. Perhaps it is not completely the homeowners fault, because often times unscrupulous and predatory realtors, investors, mortgage companies and even loss mitigation companies have sometimes compounded the problem. This fact, coupled with a lack of education regarding financial budgeting has turned the “American Dream” into an “American Nightmare.” Preventing this nightmare is the purpose of this book and mission of Gold Cross of America.

Acting on what started as a hunch, Dr. Francis Martin has cataloged well over 20,000 distinct approaches to counseling and psychotherapy that are advertised on the webpages of licensed, practicing mental health providers. No doubt some portion of them are harmful, but the sheer volume of advertised practices and techniques, often with names deceptively similar to actual evidence-based practices, should be cause for concern among all stakeholders in the helping professions - from educators and researchers to policy makers and insurance companies and, especially, consumers. Based on this significant original study, and drawing from other research and supports, Therapy Thieves describes a near-universal crisis in the field and recommends ways to rescue mental health care from itself. The crisis is caused by declining competence among counselors and psychotherapists who have failed to regulate themselves and who, therefore, deliver inadequate - if not harmful - services. In presenting a simple, yet powerful indictment of the field, Dr. Martin advocates for major reforms in several areas of mental health care, including how prospective licensees are trained, supervised and licensed, a major reworking of professional ethics, and the need to establish regulations for mental health care providers. In short, the book calls for major, specific, and urgently needed reforms.

The purpose of this book is to help people overcome addictions to intoxicants and cope with lifeaEUR(tm)s stresses which make up the substance abuse counseloraEUR(tm)s core mission. Counselors start by evaluating an addicted personaEUR(tm)s physical and mental behaviors, which is the first step in writing an appropriate treatment plan. Depending on the complexity of the problem, a counselor may call in other professionals, such as psychiatrists and social workers. Job prospects are considered greater than average because of a growth in court-ordered referrals to treatment programs. Addiction is an irresistible urge to perform an irrational act and compulsion to dependence. There are 4.2 million pornographic websites, 68 million search engine requests, 42.7 percent of Internet users viewing pornography, and 100,000 websites of pornography. Religious and spiritual features buffer individuals from addictive and risky behaviors. This suggests that religiosity may play a role in beliefs about and the use of pornography. This book will help counselors and experts in the field of Christian counseling education and the interactions they have with clients. Simultaneously, there is certainly room for improvement in the training and preparation of counselors. The purpose of this book is to introduce the topic of training satisfaction, attitude toward pornography, addiction counseling self-efficacy, and the comfort of counselors in discussing sexual issues with clients, particularly Internet pornography.

Are you looking for a brief introduction to what the biblical counseling movement is and how it has changed over the years? In Developments in Biblical Counseling , J. Cameron Fraser turns a journalistic eye to this question and presents a concise assessment. Introducing us to the formative work of Jay Adams, Fraser outlines several themes of biblical counseling that became foundational for the movement as a whole and observes how the movement received criticisms from outside and made necessary developments from within. He points out that some of these developments have an affinity with Puritan approaches to counseling that Adams rejects but may point in a more consistently biblical direction. Table of Contents: 1. Some Foundational Views of Nouthetic Counseling 2. Some Criticisms of Nouthetic Counseling 3. Some Developments in Biblical Counseling 4. Biblical and Puritan Counseling

“Equipping the body of Christ for personal ministry has been Bob’s life work. This practical, step-by-step manual is the mature fruit of that lifelong commitment.” —Paul David Tripp, author of Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hand Behind every spiritually fit church are leaders in the constant process of preparing other members to become counselors who nurture “one-another ministry.” But the success of this mission requires a practical, results-driven process for training the next generation to serve. In Equipping Biblical Counselors, pastor and counselor Bob Kellemen shares a proven strategy for envisioning, enlisting, equipping, and empowering new Christian counselors—a practical four-step process he has spent decades refining. With this book, Dr. Kellemen humbly comes alongside church leaders to help them assess their congregation’s strengths and weaknesses shepherd new leaders with confidence and wisdom encourage the consistent spiritual growth God longs to see in his followers Invest where it matters most! Equipping Biblical Counselors reveals the steps ministry leaders can take to fulfill the calling in Ephesians 4:11-16 to embolden the body of Christ to continue changing lives with his unchanging truth.