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Apostate

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anyone who has the form and function of religion but who lacks the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit and a commitment to absolute truth.

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Values, Neutral Myth

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We cannot act impartially and apart form our value sypstems.

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APA Div. 36

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There is a conversation pointed at the absurdity of attempts at valuelessness and religion-free counseling. The volume is written by those who recognize that faith, values, and religion are an integral part of the successful therapy.

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Humanist Psychology

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1. Man is good by nature. 2. Society is responsible for man's evil acts. 3. Mental health can be restore to everyone who gets in touch with his inner 'good' self. This brand denies the existence of the supernatural. (Behaviorist)

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Utopianism Psychology

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1. The mind is material and comprised of merely a series of physical brain activities. 2. Human development is a march toward the perfect social order and away from free will. 3.Humans can be educated so that they can do only good. There is no acknowledgment of person responsibility for sin. The cure for humanity's ills is to increase education, remove poverty, and eliminate oppression.

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New Age Psychology

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1. The goal is to reach a higher consciousness, thereby speeding up the work of evolution toward a collective God-consciousness. 2. Solving mental health issues is a matter of mind over matter. Meditation is one of the primary techniques used. The focus is on the "god within".

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Biblical Worldview

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Many people believe that when Christians confront other worldviews and attempt to speak to such 'worldly' disciplines as politics, economics, biology, and law [we add psychology], they are overstepping their bounds. "Mind your own business," we are told. Jesus taught his followers, " you do not belong to the world but I have chosen you out of the world: (John 15:19)

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General Revelation

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" For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-- his eternal power and divine nature-- have been clearly seen being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (Rom 1:22-23) "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands" (Psalm 19;1) Ex: Empirical research is a from of general revelation This is descriptive.

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Special Revelation

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The word of God. This has more authority than general revelation. This is prescriptive. The purpose of special revelation is to explain and interpret general revelation.

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Secular

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Implies the absence of a religious belief. In and of itself this implies a religious belief that there is no God. There is no such thing as counseling from a perspective of no religious belief. The only difference is the denial of God.

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Informed Consent

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We need to explicitly state and practice our value system with honest. Professional integrity requires therapists to state their values openly and clearly, to practice within those parameters, and to inform clients of those values so as to facilitate informed consent. Conflicting values will only confuse and frustrate an uniformed client, and sometimes after.

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Excluded Middle

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The tendency of the Western world is to exclude the spiritual realm from everyday experience. The interaction between supernatural and natural forces is known as the excluded middle. The Bible does not teach a separation between the natural and spiritual worlds. The Bible teaches that the unseen world is just as real or even more real, that the seen world. An omnipresent God is never distant. And our struggle is not with flesh and blood.

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Demonic Possession

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The early wringing of the Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, and Hebrews disclosed their belief that unusual behavior deviating from expected conduct is the result of demonic possession. Both Good and evil demons were thought to exist. The conclusion as to whether the person's possession was beneficial (demonstration of extraordinary strength or magical powers) or negative (cutting oneself, screaming, acting bizarrely) depended on the particular behavior of the individual. This idea is contrary to what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that every fallen spirit under the lordship of Satan is in opposition to God and therefore is not beneficial to possess.

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Chemical Imbalance

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Those who point exclusively to natural causation would say that he appeared to have suffered from major depression. However, the Bible says differently.

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Medical Model

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The use of medication taking center stage as the primary approach to mental illness in the 20th century.

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Emotional Catharsis

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Relieved the unconscious pressure and, in turn, eliminated the symptom that the pressure created.

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External Locus of Control

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Those holding to an external locus of control believe that luck or some outside force determines what happens to them.

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Internal Locus of Control

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Those with an internal locus of control look to themselves to control what happens to them.

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Admonishment of Sin

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needs to be reconciled in the Christian counseling worldview.

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Sympathy of Sickness

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needs to be reconciled in the Christian counseling worldview.

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Calvinism

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victory depends fully on God

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Armenianism

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victory depends fully on man

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Personal Relationship with God

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By faith they have received Jesus Christ into their lives and are now children of God.

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Core Beliefs of Evangelical Christianity

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Authority of the Bible, justification by faith, commitment to sanctification.

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Secondary Beliefs

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A matter of preference, usually come to light in denominational differences.

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Full Understanding of each other's worldview

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Client and therapist must establish a mutually clear understanding of their respective value systems and worldviews.

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APA standard of human differences

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requires the therapist to fully understand his or her value system so as to avoid any negative impact on a client if value differences do exist.

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Across the Gap

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Therapists who personally do not value religious commitment and ignore it or see it primarily as harmful for their patients.

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The collaborative

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therapists who personally are not religiously committed but respect and deal positively with religious commitment in therapy.

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Behind the door

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Therapists who personally hold religious values but ignore or refrain from dealing with religious commitment and religious values in therapy.

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The conjoint

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Therapists who personally are religiously committed and who deal positively with religious commitment in therapy.

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Separate but equal

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This position is maintained by those who believe Scripture deals with spiritual and theological problems only; all other issues should be referred to other qualified professionals. (Crabb)

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Tossed Salad

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Combining the insights and resources of Scripture with the wisdom of Psychology. Taking bit and pieces and meshing them together. This approach correctly assumes that secular psychology has something to offer, but incorrectly assumes that there won't be a mingling of contradictory presuppositions. (Crabb)

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Nothing Buttery

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This is disregarding psychology all together. This approach is to narrow according to Crabb.

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Dr. Crabb's four qualifications:

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1. Christian Counselors should accept psychological insights only if these insights are completely consistent with biblical truth. 2. They should regard the Bible as the infallible word of God. 3. They should agree to give Scripture "functional control' over their thinking, with the result that biblical principles take priority over contrary biblical non-biblical opinion and are put into practice thoroughly and consistently. 4. They should demonstrate serious interest in the content of Scripture by engaging in regular and systematic Bible study. They should spend the same time (if not more) in scripture as in the study of Psychology.

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Mainstream

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(Gary Collins) Counselors such as these are mainly associated with the Clinical Pastoral Education movement. "Generally the pastoral psychological literature has ben derivative, constituting little more than adaptations of Freud, Rogers, and other popular clinical approaches.:

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Evangelical Pastor

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(Gary Collins) Ministers who provide a biblical counseling orientation from a preaching-teaching perspective. The word of God's importance is strongly emphasized.

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Christian Professional:

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These are sometimes criticized for under-utilizing God's word when dealing with emotional or mental problems. (Collins)

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Theoretician-Researcher

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(Collins) "have studied and researched the field of psychology as they have attempted to provide an apologetic to face the anti-Christian challenge. Data is of much more importance when dealing with non-believers and scripture is important when dealing with believers.

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Evangelical Popularizers

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(Collins) Members of this category usually have minimal training in psychology but are able to articulate scriptural principles in a clear and practical manner.

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Implicit Integration

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Implicit Integration of religion in clinical practice refers to a more covert approach that dos not... openly or directly using spiritual resources.

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Explicit Integration

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refers to a more overt approach that directly deals with spiritual issues in therapy. It uses spiritual resources.

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Bible only Counselors

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Psychological Principle are unwise to use. Knowledge of the Bible is the only thing necessary.

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Closed Counselors

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Personal life=Christian Professional life= Psychologist

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Closet Counselors

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They have integrated their faith with psychological principles but for various reasons do not openly demonstrate this fact in the therapy session.

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Conjoin Counselors

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Therapist in this category are most likely to accomplish the multidimensional goals for counseling in a Christian setting. They utilize explicit expression of the spiritual aspects of life in a treatment plan, along with psychological assessments and treatment plans.

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Dust

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Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person. The dust is the natural.

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Divine Breath

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Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person. The Divine breath is the spirityal.

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Trichotomous View

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We contain a body, soul, and spirit. The Soul is the mind will and emotions.

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Dichotomous View

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We are both material and immaterial.

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Being Alive

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Adam and Eve were made to be both spiritually and physically alive. In the bile the idea of being alive means "to be in union with". Thus, to be physically alive means that one's soul/spirit is in union with one's body. Spiritual life means that one's soul/spirit is in union with God.

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To die

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"to be separated from"

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First Negative emotion

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Shame

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The Law

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Ceremonial, Civil, Moral, provided for a temporal means by which humans could relate to God and each other. This was a conditional covenant based on Mosaic law. The law was powerless to give life; therefore righteousness could not be based on the law. Moses' law was a tutor that would eventually lead s to Jesus Christ.

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The Gospel

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The Gospel is far more than just the proclamation of forgiveness of sins. the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. "The wages of sin is death..." Rom 6 23 "Without the shedding of blood...no forgiveness" Heb 9:22 Jesus died, rose, and He is returning.

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Born Again

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But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13 (NIV)

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Child of God

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See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 1 John 3:1-2 (NIV)

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Defeated Christian

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Those who do not know that they are "in Christ" or understand what it meant to be a child of God.

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Genuine Repentance

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One of the three ways to bring about Spiritual conflicts.

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Submitting to God

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One of the three ways to bring about Spiritual conflicts

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Resisting the devil

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One of the three ways to bring about Spiritual conflicts

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Identity in Christ

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People cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how they perceive themselves.

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Saints

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Believers

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Sinners

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Non-believers

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Positional Sanctification

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What God has already accomplished for us and who we already are in Christ.

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Having sin

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Realizing that we do have sins. if you have a problem child, the only way to get rid of the problem is to get rid of the child. But if your child has a provlem it is surely possible to help him or her resolve the problem.

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Being Sin

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Thinking that we are our sins. The best way to help someone overcome a lifestyle of sin is to help them not to identify with that sin any longer. For example: Alcoholism or homosexuality.

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Behave

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We are not saved by how we behave we are saved by how we believe. Any message that advocates only a change in behavior with external accountability will fall far short in the end. It cannot and will not liberate them.

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Believe

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Changing a client's behavior without changing what he or she believes can only lead in the end to legalism and driven-ness or rebellion. Rules without relationships lead to rebellion.

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Being Needs

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Life, Identity acceptance security and significance. Only Jesus Christ can meet these needs.

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Prevailing Experiences

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such as the homes in which they are raised, the neighborhoods in which they play the friends they have, and the churches they attend (or do not attend), make a significant impact on people's worldviews. Values are more caught than taught. Formal education is another vital experience that shapes our worldview. All children will interpret the data they receive differently.

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Traumatic Experiences

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These are deeply etched into people's minds and they shape their beliefs about God, themselves, and the world in which they live. These deeply rooted beliefs are what keep people in bondage to the past, not the traumatic experience itself.

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Defense Mechanisms

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Coping Mechanisms or survival strategies.

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Strongholds

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Habitual patterns of thought. "Flesh patterns", because they respond to old patterns of thought. How we learned to live life independently of God. Ex: inferiority complex.

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Brain-mind combination

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Hardware (physical computer) and software (programming).

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Cognitive-behavioral therapy

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Certain "precipitating" events do not cause an emotional response ; rather the emotional response is determined by how the mind interprets those events. This is the fastest growing and widely accepted approach to counseling at the present time. This treatment is the replacement of irrational beliefs with a number of realistic flexible, effective new philosophies.: 1. Help the client to see between negative thoughts, the emotions they create, and the behaviors that follow. 2. The client is helped to monitor negative thoughts or distortions of reality. 3. The client examines the evidence that they believe is the source of the irrational belief. 4. If the client believes that what they were thinking is untrue, then they must replace those thoughts with something. 5. The client is helped to identify and change inappropriate assumptions that predisposed him to distort their experiences in the first place.

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Repentance

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Christians repent when they agree with God that what they have believed is not true and what they have done is not right, then turn from those false beliefs and destructive behaviors. This literally means " a change of mind"

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Deception

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This is the primary strategy of the enemy. Deception is used, because you do not know when it is being used. It is different than being tempted in that sense.

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Mentally Healthy

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A person is considered mentally healthy if they are in touch with reality and if they are relatively free from anxiety.

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CBT 5 Steps

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1. The client is taught to understand the connections between negative thoughts---> emotions --> balance 2. Client is taught to recognize negative thoughts 3. Client examines evidence "is this true." 4. Help client replace wrong thought with correct thought. 5. Client is helped to challenge care beliefs.

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