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Counseling and Christianity: Five Approaches is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Judith Rappaport (1989) finds the roots of modern OCD in what the Catholic Church originally called “scrupulosity”—the overly rigid attending to morals and proper behavior. Jeremy Taylor (1660) most thoroughly explored it, making it a disorder with a longer history of religious “diagnosis” and “therapy” than secular. These examples illustrate that Christians have long addressed mental health in ways that were progressive for their time. Even as Christian music
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