IVP Christian Counseling Collection (3 vols.)

by Kelly S. Flanagan; Sarah E. Hall; Jack O. Balswick; Pamela Ebstyne King

and

2 more

Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2013–2016

Overview

As a part of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies book series, each of these resources is designed to assist mental health professionals, pastors, or lay counselors in serving others spiritual, psychological, and relational needs. These authors’ approach to mental health recognizes the spiritual components of the self, divine dynamics of families, the gradual maturing in children, and also tackles difficult questions in how to best maintain a principled purity when working to bind up the broken. Gain a clearer perspective on the faith-filled and God-honoring task of counseling from a Christian worldview.

Key Features

• Relates Scriptural principles to modern issues to promote healing
• Shows a proven method to guide counselees through complicated issues
• Integrates psychology with Christian spirituality

Product Details

• Title: IVP Christian Counseling Collection
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Volumes: 3
• Pages: 1,367
• Topic: Counseling

Christian Counseling Ethics: A Handbook for Psychologists, Therapists and Pastors

• Editor: Randolph K. Sanders
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Pages: 553

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The work of psychotherapy and counseling is full of ethical challenges and dilemmas. Responding to these situations with wisdom is critical, not only to ensure the professional’s credibility, but also for good therapeutic relationships and positive treatment outcomes for the counselee. Since its first publication, Christian Counseling Ethics has become a standard reference work for Christian psychologists, counselors and pastors and a key text at Christian universities and seminaries. This thoroughly revised edition retains core material on counseling ethics that has made it so valuable in a variety of settings. Now fully updated, it weighs and assesses new and emerging ethical issues in the field. For example, the current volume explores ethical issues involved in:

• multiple relationships
• confidentiality
• documentation
• therapist competence and character
• addressing spiritual and value issues in therapy
• teletherapy
• individual and couples therapy
• counseling with minors
• psychological first aid after disasters
• counseling crossculturally

In addition, the book considers dilemmas Christian therapists face in specific settings such as:

• church-based counseling centers
• government and military institutions
• missions organizations
• college counseling centers

This resource allows modern practitioners of the helping profession protect themselves and clients by maintaining proper ethics while providing counsel.

Randolph K. Sanders, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in independent practice in New Braunfels, Texas. He is the former executive director of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) and served as an ex-officio member of the committee that revised the CAPS Statement of Ethical Guidelines. He is a noted writer and speaker on ethical matters in psychotherapy.

Christianity and Developmental Psychopathology: Foundations and Approaches

• Editors: Kelly Flanagan and Sarah E. Hall
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Pages: 480

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Since its origin in the early 1980s, the field of developmental psychopathology has become a highly influential framework for approaching the clinical treatment of children. Until now there has been no effort to integrate this framework with a Christian understanding of psychopathology.

The essays in this volume break new ground by providing Christian mental health professionals with a theoretically and empirically sound basis for working with children, adolescents and families. Throughout the book, the authors explore three integrative themes, looking at children as divine gifts, as persons and as agents in their own development.

Given the deep biblical and theological interest in children and the “least of these,” there is great potential in this integrative work for mutual enrichment. Christian insights help to prevent the scientific study of the developmental process from being reductive. At the same time, research into the biological, sociocultural and psychological dimensions of human development can serve to inform and guide Christian practices of care and hospitality toward children and families. Christianity and Developmental Psychopathology makes an important contribution to a conversation that is still in its infancy.

Kelly Flanagan (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is associate professor of psychology and PsyD program director at Wheaton College. Her areas of interest and research include developmental psychopathology, social development, peer relationships, and school-based mental health.

Sarah Elizabeth Hall (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is assistant professor of psychology at Wheaton College. Her research interests are in the area of emotion regulation in children, specifically the development of emotion regulation in early childhood and relations between emotion regulation and psychopathology.

The Reciprocating Self: Human Development in Theological Perspective

• Authors: Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King, and Kevin S. Reimer
• Edition: 2nd
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 334

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On the basis of a theologically grounded understanding of the nature of persons and the self, Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King and Kevin S. Reimer present a model of human development that ranges across all of life’s stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood and elder adulthood. They do this by drawing on a biblical model of relationality, where the created goal or purpose of human development is to become a reciprocating self—fully and securely related to others and to God.

Along the way, they provide a context for understanding individual development issues—concerns, tensions, worries or crises encountered by the self in the context of change. Awareness of these issues is most pronounced at developmental transitional points: learning to talk and walk, beginning to eat unassisted, going to school, developing secondary sexual physical features, leaving home, obtaining full-time employment, becoming engaged and then married, having a child for the first time, parenting an adolescent, watching children move away from home, retiring, experiencing decline in physical and mental health, and, finally, facing imminent death. The authors contend throughout that, since God has created human beings for relationship, to be a self in reciprocating relationships is of major importance in negotiating these developmental issues.

Critically engaging social science research and theory, The Reciprocating Self offers an integrated approach that provides insight helpful to college and seminary students as well as those serving in the helping professions. Those in Christian ministry will be especially rewarded by the in-depth discussion of the implications for moral and faith development nurtured in the context of the life of the church.

In this revised and expanded second edition, Balswick, King and Reimer have added research from developmental neuroscience and neuropsychology, which connects transitional behavior to a changing brain. They have also included a wealth of research on the moral, spiritual and religious dimensions of human development, in which they introduce the notion of reciprocating spirituality. In addition the authors engage with the burgeoning fields of positive and evolutionary psychology.

Jack O. Balswick (PhD, University of Iowa) is senior professor of sociology and family development at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He has twice received an American Senior Fulbright Scholar Fellowship. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family, Family Relations, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Review of Religious Research. He has authored or coauthored articles in over seventy professional publications and has presented papers at conferences around the world.

Pamela Ebstyne King (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is associate professor of marital and family studies and the Peter L. Benson Chair of Applied Developmental Science in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. King’s primary academic interests are applied research at the intersection of human thriving and spiritual development. Her research includes studies on environments that promote thriving and the nature and function of spiritual development in diverse adolescents and emerging adults. She has conducted research funded by Biologos Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, and Tyndale House.

Kevin S. Reimer (PhD, Fuller School of Psychology) is a program administrator and faculty member in the School of Education, University of California, Irvine. Reimer completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and Oxford.