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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...

being psychologists (such as Jones & Butman, 1991; Collins, 2007; Entwistle, 2004). In some instances, the mental health professional teams up with a theologian (e.g., Beck & Demarest, 2005; Shults & Sandage, 2006). (Note that this is also true of the transformational theorists Coe and Hall, 2010a, 2010b.) The major organizations for Christians in the field—the Christian Association for Psychological Studies (www.caps.net) and the American Association of Christian Counselors (www.aacc.net)—are rooted
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