Dr. Siang-Yang Tan describes and explains the use of prayer and scripture during cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT). He explains that there is empirical evidence of CBT for treatment of a variety of disorders. The article discusses how behavior therapy is divided into three major waves: traditional behavior, CBT, and commitment therapy. Dr. Tan, then explains how to incorporate prayer, scripture, and a Christian approach, that he has developed, into CBT. Dr. Tan explains that there are eight key features of the Christian approach to CBT. These key features include: agape love, past issues, faith, thought and behavior problems, the Holy Spirit’s guidance, community resources, use Christ like techniques, and use research. Tan also discusses …show more content…
Including prayer and scripture for Christians will make CBT even better. God has given us both prayer and scripture as important tools for our lives. We all need to use the tools he has given us. Christian counselors come in contact every day with people who are broken and in need of help. Using prayer and Bible verses can help guide the individuals back onto the right path. We as Christians understand that the Bible is the true word of God and we have a direct line through prayer to God. Dr. Tan has shown that incorporating prayer, scripture, and a Christian approach helps people. He has been using this approach for years and has had positive results. All counselors need to use the methods that work. This is especially true of Christian counselors. If a Christian had made a chose to visit a Christian therapist, that therapist should use Christian tools to help their client. This article has offered great information into the world of therapy with the incorporated prayer and scripture. However, I believe that more research needs to be completed to prove that incorporating a Christian approach helps people. Since, the unbelievers will attack this method as a waste of time and energy, research must be used to prove its …show more content…
One of the verses that I would use is Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthenth me” (MacArthur, 1997, p. 1828). I would remind Brian that God is always with him. No matter what situation may happen God is with him and will help him through it. Also, I would use 2 Timothy 1:7, “for god has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (MacArthur, 1997, p. 1875). I would help Brian understand that there is no need to be worry about anything from his past or the future, because God has given us a spirit of power. We can and will overcome anything that comes our way with God’s
The start of this article focuses on a Christian client named George who is plagued with feelings of worthlessness, depression, low self-esteem, and suicide. His mother had also battled depression, and his father had an abusive relationship with alcohol, which caused his father to have verbally and physically abusive altercations with George and his mother. The abusive experiences that George was exposed to as a child paved the way for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as an adult (Garzon, 2005). With all of these factors present in this client’s life, a treatment plan was created that involved scripture interventions. The author made sure to touch on the fact that every client is unique in the hopes that counselors would be aware that one type of scripture intervention might work for one client and not work for another. The article highlights three guiding values when considering these types of interventions; “respect for the client’s autonomy/freedom, sensitivity to and empathy for the client’s religious and spiritual beliefs, and flexibility and responsiveness to the client’s religious and spiritual beliefs.”(Garzon, 2005). ...
Psychotherapy integration is best explained as an attempt to look beyond and across the dimensions of a single therapy approach, to examine what one can learn from other perspectives, and how one’s client’s can benefit from various ways of administering therapy (Corey, 2013). Research has shown that a variety of treatments are equally effective when administered by therapist who believe in them and client’s that accept them (Corey, 2013). Therefore, one of the best aspects of utilizing an integrative approach is that, in most cases, if a therapist understands how and when to incorporate therapeutic interventions, they usually can’t go wrong. While integrating different approaches can be beneficial for the client, it is also important for the
Clinton, T. & Ohlschlager, G. (2002). Competent Christian counseling: Foundations and practice of compassionate soul care. Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook Press.
The aim of psychotherapy is to encourage self-awareness and self-evaluation in order to enable transformation and facilitate possibility. It is this self-evaluation process that is crucial to personal agency (McKay, 1987) and integral to psychodynamic therapy (PDT) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). This essay will critically evaluate cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic theories regarding self-awareness and self-evaluation and explore ways in which these theories and their understanding of self may be utilised within clinical hypnosis.
Much success has come from religion in therapy. Success has occurred when used to cope with psychological disorders, preventing unhealthy
The main definition that this author describes cognitive behavioral therapy as is an active, directive, time-limited, structured approach to treat a variety of psychiatric disorders (Beck, 1979). Understanding that this treatment can assist many different disorders allows a worker to not only use it for the client that is being bullied and has been effected by anxiety but also resulting into depression. Beck mentions a few cognitive techniques used to test misconceptions that a client may be thinking. Cognitive techniques such as monitoring automatic negative thoughts, recognizing the connections between thoughts, the affects, and behaviors, and learning to examine and explore these thoughts at different dimensions (Beck, 1979). The goal of cognitive behavioral therapy is to simply relieve emotional distress and other symptoms of mental illness (Beck, 1979). When working with a Mormon the worker will have to identify the differences between thoughts and feelings so the client can identify their own by personal reflection instead of what the worker may think is
Consultation is defined as an indirect problem-solving and decision-making model that involves the cooperative efforts of a consultant (specialist) and consultees (teachers, parents, caregivers) to clarify primary needs and issues and to develop, implement, and evaluate appropriate strategies for intervention. (Richard & Smoot, 2000). Over the last few years or so, behavioral consultation has become increasingly studied, and advances in the definitions, standardization, psychometric criteria, training, and generalizability of consultation research, methodology, and outcomes for this type of consultation are now documented. Behavioral, mental health, and organizational development are the three general models of consultation. Behavioral consultation
There are many different treatments available that can be effective in reducing or eliminating problems with alcohol or other drugs. Some treatments involve individual counseling, others involve group counseling, and still others involve self-help meetings and support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotic Anonymous. It is worth it to enter treatment for benefit to everyone in family and person who is substance abuse
Reality Therapy Introduction William Glasser, who “published his first book, Mental Health or Mental Illness?” was the foundation of “Reality Therapy” in 1961.” (Corey, 1977/1991) “Dr. Glasser began his work in an adolescent girl’s juvenile facility.” (Mary Lahey, 2013 PowerPoint Presentation) This was in total opposition to a popular theory of the times by Sigmund Freud. Freud’s Psychoanalysis theory states that each individual is unique, that there are factors outside of a person's awareness (unconscious thoughts, feelings, and experiences) which influence his or her thoughts and actions, that the past shapes the present, that human beings are always engaged in the process of development throughout their lives.
Three challenges the text addresses with transitioning for students who have a behavior intervention plan are a lack of students’ social skills, a lack of interagency collaboration, and students with EBD are frequently moved around different agencies. A variety of social skills are needed in our everyday life. From ordering a meal to explaining how you would like your haircut, we interact with people throughout our community. Students with EBD often lack the important social skills needed to navigate the community at large. A potential solution to this challenge is to offer community based training. Through a good model of community based training, student with EBD learn the social skill they need to interact with the world at large in a real
However, it does not matter how strong a person’s faith is or how weak a person faith is, everyone in Christian counseling starts off the same. It is a process how a person develops overtime. This is similar to a child learning how to tie his or her shoes. At first they do not get it but overtime, it becomes of habit and the person get better. According to Clinton, Hart and Ohlschlager (2005),” they believe that Christian counselling has to do with and learning applying the principles of the kingdom on living to the chronically sins, fears, failures, and dark areas of our life (p.21). When people are at their lowest point he or she turn to Christ to get the throughout tough times. Furthermore, in chapter two a person learns about the trust and fined our truth. In chapter two it discusses becoming a trust worthy counselor. In Chapter two, I realized that is all about gaining the clients trust. If the client, does not trust the counselor then no typ of relationship can be bonded. The client is in a venerable state and the counselor has to make sure that the can feel free to be
Worthington, E. L. Jr., Hook, J. N., Davis, D. E., & McDaniel, M. A. (2011). Religion and spirituality. In J. C. Norcross (Ed.), Psychotherapy relationships that work (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press
When it comes to the point of understanding of how Christian counseling can be effective, the accepted requirements for the standards of counseling
This essay aims to critically evaluate one therapeutic intervention in psychology, named, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). It begins with defining CBT and discussing the underlying principles and concepts of this approach. Some examples of treating psychological disorders by employing a CBT approach in children and adolescents will be made and then, It will move on to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this therapeutic intervention. The review will be finished by a conclusion regarding employing such approach.
I believe Christianity and the Bowen family theory can be integrated as well, but it is the counselor who must properly integrate it. According to McMinn (2011), “Bring the Christian faith into the counseling office requires the counselor to evaluate carefully the goals of therapy and challenge the views of healing that surround us in the mental health profession” (p. 17).