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Evidence-Based Practices for Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy

Evidence-Based Practices for Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy

Eric L. Johnson (Editor) , Everett L. Worthington Jr. (Editor) , Jamie D. Aten (Editor) , Joshua N. Hook (Editor)
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Are Christian treatments as effective as secular treatments? What is the evidence to support its success? Christians engaged in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy and counseling are living in a unique moment. Over the last couple decades, these fields have grown more and more open to religious belief and religion-accommodative therapies. At the same time, Christian counselors and psychotherapists encounter pressure (for example, from insurance companies) to demonstrate that their accommodative therapies are as beneficial as secular therapies. This raises the need for evidence to support Christian practices and treatments. The essays gathered in this volume explore evidence-based Christian treatments, practices, factors and principles. The authors mine the relevant research and literature to update practicing psychotherapists, clinical researchers, students, teachers and educated laypersons about the efficacy of certain Christian-accommodative therapies. Topics covered in the book include: The book concludes with a review of the evidence for the various treatments discussed in the chapters, a guide for conducting clinical trials that is essential reading for current or aspiring researchers, and reflections by the editors about the future of evidence-based Christian practices. As the editors say, "more research is necessary." To that end, this volume is a major contribution to a field of inquiry that, while still in its infancy, promises to have enormous implications for future work in Christian counseling and psychotherapy.

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ISBN: 9780830864782
Producer:
InterVarsity Press
EAN: 9780830864782
Weight: 0.001kg
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Digital delivered electronically
File size: 816.4KB
Release Date: 04.11.2013
Language: English

Book contents

1. Introduction to Evidence-Based Practices in Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy Everett L. Worthington Jr., Eric L. Johnson, Joshua N. Hook and Jamie D. Aten 2. Evidence-Based Relationship and Therapist Factors in Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy R. Scott Stegman, Sarah L. Kelly and T. Mark Harwood 3. Lay Christian Counseling for General Psychological Problems Siang-Yang Tan 4. Christian Devotional Meditation for Anxiety Fernando Garzon 5. Christian-Accommodative Cognitive Therapy for Depression David J. Jennings II, Don E. Davis, Joshua N. Hook and Everett L. Worthington, Jr. 6. Christian-Accommodative Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Children and Adolescents Donald F. Walker, Heather Lewis Quagliana, Morgan Wilkinson and Dana Frederick 7. Evidence-Based Principles from Psychodynamic and Process-Experiential Psychotherapies Keith J. Edwards and Edward B. Davis 8. Preparing Couples for Marriage: The SYMBIS Model Les Parrott and Leslie Parrott 9. Christian PREP: The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program C. Gary Barnes and Scott M. Stanley 10. The Hope-Focused Couples Approach to Counseling and Enrichment Jennifer S. Ripley and Vickey L. Maclin 11. The Marital Conflict and Restoration Model: Empirical Evidence for Pain-Defense and Grace-Trust Patterns in Couple Reconciliation James N. Sells 12. Marital Couples and Forgiveness Intervention Frederick A. DiBlasio 13. Christian-Accommodative Group Interventions to Promote Forgiveness for Transgressions Julia E. M. Kidwell and Nathaniel G. Wade 14. Promising Evidence-Based Treatments Everett L. Worthington Jr., Joshua N. Hook, Eric Johnson and Jamie D. Aten 15. Conducting Clinical Outcome Studies in Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy Joshua N. Hook, Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Jamie D. Aten and Eric Johnson 16. Evidence-Based Practice in Light of the Christian Tradition(s): Reflections and Future Directions Eric L. Johnson, Everett L. Worthington Jr., Joshua N. Hook and Jamie D. Aten List of Contributors Subject Index
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Eric L. Johnson

Eric L. Johnson (PhD, Michigan State University) trained as an academic psychologist and is Lawrence and Charlotte Hoover Professor of Pastoral Care at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of and the coeditor of and . An associate editor of the , he is the director of the Society for Christian Psychology and the Institute for Christian Psychology.

Everett L. Worthington Jr.

Everett L. Worthington Jr. (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and former executive director of the Templeton Foundation's A Campaign for Forgiveness Research. Worthington has studied forgiveness since the 1980s and has published more than two hundred articles and papers on forgiveness, marriage and family, psychotherapy and virtue in a wide variety of journals and magazines. He was the founding editor of and sits on the editorial boards of several professional journals. He has appeared on CNN and and been featured in award-winning documentary movies on forgiveness such as and He is the author of seventeen books including and

Jamie D. Aten

Jamie D. Aten (PhD, Indiana State University) is the founder and codirector of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute, and Dr. Arthur P. Rech and Mrs. Jean May Rech Associate Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois). Previously he served as the assistant director of the Katrina Research Center and as assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi. Aten has been awarded close to $2 million in external funding by numerous state, federal and nonprofit organizations for psychology of religion and disaster research. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and co-edited several books, including two American Psychological Association Books bestsellers. He is also an American Psychological Association’s Division 36 (Psychology of Religion) Margaret Gorman Early Career Award winner and Mutual of America Merit Finalist Award winner.

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