Psychology, Theology, and Spiritualit..., Mark R. McMinn
Psychology, Theology, and Spiritualit..., Mark R. McMinn
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Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling

Author: Mark R. McMinn

Narrator: Al Kessel

Unabridged: 12 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/26/2022


Synopsis

The American Association of Christian Counselors and Tyndale House Publishers are committed to ministering to the spiritual needs of people. This book is part of the professional series that offers counselors the latest techniques, theory, and general information that is vital to their work. While many books have tried to integrate theology and psychology, this book takes another step and explores the importance of the spiritual disciplines in psychotherapy, helping counselors to integrate the biblical principles of forgiveness, redemption, restitution, prayer, and worship into their counseling techniques. Since its first publication in 1996, this book has quickly become a contemporary classic—a go-to handbook for integrating what we know is true from the disciplines of theology and psychology and how that impacts your daily walk with God. This book will help you integrate spiritual disciplines—such as prayer, Scripture reading, confession—into your own life and into counseling others.

About Mark R. McMinn

Mark R. McMinn is professor of psychology at George Fox University, where he teaches and serves as the director of faith integration in the Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology. Mark holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University, is a licensed psychologist in Oregon, and is board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and a past president of the APA's Psychology of Religion division.

Mark has received teacher-of-the-year awards at both George Fox University and Wheaton College, where he taught from 1993 to 2006. He was recently awarded the 2010 Graduate Researcher of the Year award at George Fox. Much of his research and all his clinical work in recent years have focused on clergy health and finding effective ways for mental health professionals and clergy to work well together.

Mark's wife, Lisa, is a sociologist and an author. Together they raised three daughters, who are now grown. Mark and Lisa live in rural Oregon, where they attend Newberg Friends Church, tend honeybees and chickens, and run a small Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 17, 2015

I had to read this book for my grad class and I absolutely loved it! It is rare to find a "textbook" that is not dull and torture to read through. But this book is worth reading whether you are going into counseling or wanting to simply improve your discipleship skills. Excellent read and I have a f......more

Goodreads review by Traci on October 15, 2012

This is not a read for fun, or for personal knowledge kind of book. It is a text book. If you are a considering counseling, pastoral counseling, clinical counseling, psychology, psychiatry, or pastor you will want to read this. It was a very good discussion of how, when, why to incorporate the spiri......more

Goodreads review by Stone on September 06, 2017

No one, no methods are value-free. All counsellors unavoidably pass their worldviews to clients. What differs from non-Christian counselling is that Christian counsellors are the agent of redemptive love of Jesus Christ and its love overflows during counselling to the clients. God's love is the sour......more

Goodreads review by Rick on February 06, 2016

This book gave me a basic introduction about Psychology, Theology and Spirituality integrated together for a Counselor. I think this book helped me to think more about my own self, the identity of self. It is really profound to think about your own self. It piqued my interest on Cognitive therapy and......more

Goodreads review by T.E. on September 18, 2021

This was very readable for a textbook, however, I felt like it said a lot in order to explain things that were fairly straightforward. In other words, it was longer than it needed to be. The most helpful parts to me were the example sections that were scattered throughout the book.......more