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The New Christian Counseling Summary

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Authors Hawkins and Clinton (2015) began the dynamic of the book sharing that the calling of the new Christian counselor, as our highest privilege and compelling responsibility, is to be distinctively Christian and thoroughly professional. In addition to keep up with advances in research and in the treatment fields of counseling, psychotherapy and pastoral care. (Hawkins & Clinton, 2015, p. 6). Hawkins and Clinton, (2015) shared the dynamic of the new Christian counselor in having a spiritual foundation with the integration of terminology of the counseling field and psychotherapy to target every aspect of an individual’s life in which they may be lacking.
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(Stokley, p. 11). Both psychology and scripture shares the important of wellness, the integration of psychology and theology is looked at as unity of truth. There are some caparisons between both based on concepts but also, they have some difficulty in clashing with information and what is spiritual truth and scientific truth. This can also transition in the ‘Integrates’ model, even though there may be issues between the two due to that what Christians believe is that all truth is God’s truth and that if the scientific truths of psychology are in comparison to Christianity is truth then we should be able to integrate the two. The issue is that the Integrates model shares that psychology can have a part to playing in showing us how our fallenness is expressed in thinking, relationships and behaviors (Stokley, p. 12). Hawkins & Clintion would not identify pshycological issues apart from spiritual issues, I believe they tie in …show more content…

This is where a client is just simply disconnected from God, they’re seeking happiness or symptom management form certain medication. They are crying for help but not to the right person, I would want to share with my client that they should seek God and cry out to him discussing their mental stability. In addition, Searching for Hope, this ties in to the client searching for hope based on their substance history sometimes in drugs, alcohol or medication. Brokenness begs for healing. People are searching for answers, reaching for anything to anesthetize the pain and fill the void in their lives. (Hawkins & Clinton, p.13). I would ensure to my clients to put effort more into trusting him than trusting medication to release them from this spiritual and psychological hold. Overcoming the Faith Gap, the issue today is that are so many secular agencies that trained and taught counselors to be bias and against faith, I have also have gone through this training that we are aware of the client’s spiritual beliefs but we are still to be more practical in the psychologic theories and aspects more so than religion. I also encourage my client to have a believe system and to break the chain of resorting to the belief system of medication. Embracing

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