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Counseling and psychotherapy : a Christian perspective / Siang-Yang Tan. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, (c)2011.Description: xii, 495 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801029660
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR115.T161.C686 2011
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Contents:
Overview of counseling and psychotherapy: theory, research, and practice -- The person of the counselor -- Legal and ethical issues in counseling and psychotherapy -- Major counseling and psychotherapy theories and techniques -- Psychoanalytic therapy -- Adlerian therapy -- Jungian therapy -- Existential therapy -- Person-centered therapy -- Gestalt therapy -- Reality therapy -- Behavior therapy -- Cognitive behavior therapy and rational emotive behavior therapy -- Marital and family therapy -- A christian approach to counseling and psychotherapy -- Christian theology in christian counseling: a biblical perspective on human nature and effective counseling and psychotherapy -- Christian faith in clinical practice: implicit and explicit integration -- The Holy Spirit and christian spirituality in counseling and psychotherapy -- Legal and ethical issues in christian counseling and psychotherapy -- Appendix: is psychotherapy effective?
Summary: This text combines cutting-edge expertise with deeply rooted Christian insights to offer a comprehensive survey of ten major counseling and psychotherapy approaches. For each approach, Siang-Yang Tan provides a substantial introduction, assessing the approach's effectiveness and the latest research findings or empirical evidence for it. He then critiques the approach from a Christian perspective. Tan also includes hypothetical transcripts of interventions for each major approach to help readers better understand the clinical work involved. The book also presents a Christian approach to counseling and psychotherapy that is Christ centered, biblically based, and Spirit filled. It will work well for marriage and family, social work, ministry, counseling, and psychology courses. Christian counselors and psychotherapists, pastors, chaplains, and lay counselors will also benefit from Tan's expertise
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Basic issues in the practice of counseling and psychotherapy -- Overview of counseling and psychotherapy: theory, research, and practice -- The person of the counselor -- Legal and ethical issues in counseling and psychotherapy -- Major counseling and psychotherapy theories and techniques -- Psychoanalytic therapy -- Adlerian therapy -- Jungian therapy -- Existential therapy -- Person-centered therapy -- Gestalt therapy -- Reality therapy -- Behavior therapy -- Cognitive behavior therapy and rational emotive behavior therapy -- Marital and family therapy -- A christian approach to counseling and psychotherapy -- Christian theology in christian counseling: a biblical perspective on human nature and effective counseling and psychotherapy -- Christian faith in clinical practice: implicit and explicit integration -- The Holy Spirit and christian spirituality in counseling and psychotherapy -- Legal and ethical issues in christian counseling and psychotherapy -- Appendix: is psychotherapy effective?

This text combines cutting-edge expertise with deeply rooted Christian insights to offer a comprehensive survey of ten major counseling and psychotherapy approaches. For each approach, Siang-Yang Tan provides a substantial introduction, assessing the approach's effectiveness and the latest research findings or empirical evidence for it. He then critiques the approach from a Christian perspective. Tan also includes hypothetical transcripts of interventions for each major approach to help readers better understand the clinical work involved. The book also presents a Christian approach to counseling and psychotherapy that is Christ centered, biblically based, and Spirit filled. It will work well for marriage and family, social work, ministry, counseling, and psychology courses. Christian counselors and psychotherapists, pastors, chaplains, and lay counselors will also benefit from Tan's expertise

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