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What does authentic Christian counseling look like in practice? This volume explores how five major perspectives on the interface of Christianity and psychology would each actually be applied in a clinical setting. Respected experts associated with each of the perspectives depict how to assess, conceptualize, counsel and offer aftercare to Jake, a hypothetical client with a variety of complex...

Mental health problems are not new; people have long struggled with distress of the soul. Moreover, the debate of who to turn to for such care is also longstanding. The modern Christianity-versus-psychology question is only the latest chapter in the Jerusalem-versus-Athens dilemma that has lasted since before Jesus walked the earth. Johnson (2010b) offers an insightful review with more focus on the study of the nature of persons. We will focus on several
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