The obtaining of state licensure and acceptance into professional fraternities usually hinges upon one’s acquaintance with, and knowledge of, the major secular systems. Failure to integrate such systems into one’s own counseling motif could very well result in a damaging estrangement from one’s own professional peers.19 ACCEPTING BIBLICAL BASICS One place for the Christian mental health professional to begin is to adopt an unwavering confidence in biblical basics. That is, that the Bible is the
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