Furthermore, they emphasize that boundaries must go both ways, and that a person must respect another's boundaries when asserting boundaries. They also discuss the law of responsibility, specifically, "we are to love one another, not be one another" (Cloud & Townsend, 1999)
Instead, he believes that demonic possession and the concept of sin should be examined after ruling out organic and traditional psychological causes for problems. He points out that the belief that there can be metaphysical causes for real-world problems may go against modern scientific notions, but is supported, not just by Christian theology, but by the modern Western interest in what he refers to as the "two tiers" of reality: an upper transcendent world and a lower empirical world (Anderson, 2006)
As the APA asserts, the best counseling therapy recognizes that full human psychological profile by allowing those beliefs to exist in the therapy setting. In a recent work detailing how to best synthesize spirituality with counseling, it is stated that, "Counselors who ignore or avoid this essential dimension of human experience can miss opportunities for supporting and fostering psychological growth" (Curtis and Davis, 1999)
Decision is something only subjects may perform, and therefore something for which they must assume complete responsibility. The intention here is to secure the independence of subjects from forces and contexts external to themselves in order to maintain agency for their own existence" (Johanson, 2010)
Integrating Behavioral Theory in which actual behaviors are evaluated with Rational Emotive Behavior Theory in which the client's thought processes are dissected along with Cognitive Theory where evaluation of life problems is the goal and ultimately evaluating the client through Existential Theory can help the counselor reach a more complete perspective on their client and optimize treatment to allow for a healthy client to emerge. Jones and Butman (1991) argue for the utility of mixing theories as not doing so in a sense leaves the client not fully realized in the counselor's mind (Jones & Butman, 1991)
Furthermore, this paradigm addresses the value rational thinking within a religious framework. "Rational Emotive Behavior Theory can be summarized in one sentence by Ellis's paraphrase of Epictetus, the stoic philosopher; 'It's never the events that happen that make us disturbed, but our view of them'" (Murdock, 2009)
In recent years, the scholarly field of clinical counseling has gradually recognized the need to be more inclusive in recognizing the religious and spiritual factors which shape clients' lives. Evidence can be found in the American Psychological Association recent decision to include religious identity as a key element of human psychology (Wolf, 2001)
The client is then assured that all the shame and pain are already washed away, thanks to the blood of Jesus that was shed on Calvary. This will give the client a reason to smile and positively take up other roles and responsibilities in the society (Adams, 1986)
This technique is very useful in that it helps in cementing God's Truths in the client's mind (Hart, 2001). The use of the miracle question can help a client to have the foresight of a future with hope (Anderson, 2006)
Still, human beings may make verbal expressions that are totally in contravention of the situations they could be facing. From this scenario, the need to play logical tactics through the study of the human mind is necessary (Backus & Chapian, 2000)
Effectively, such a person is vulnerable to various problems that come from the outside or external circles. Therefore, God is the pillar and the source of all forms of health (Cloud & Townsend, 1999)
One's level of spirituality will dictate the activities and actions they take when confronted with different situations. As a counselor, one must be well equipped with knowledge of the physical just as that of the spiritual in order to feel the transformation in their lives (Crabb, 1986)
The use of scripture in therapy sessions is yet another important technique that may be used in counseling by Christian counselors. This technique is very useful in that it helps in cementing God's Truths in the client's mind (Hart, 2001)
From a collection of all these activities, a human being takes up a particular personality. However, the Bible has quite a comprehensive yet a definite approach to personality (Wilson, 2001)
However, a closer look at the choice of words and phrases in this sermon clearly indicates the application of the principles of psychology. This sermon covered various elements of psychology including motivation, behavior, thoughts, and feelings (Entwistle, 2004)
Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson has vividly expounded on the three elements of motivation. In his submissions, Erikson argues that whenever a crisis occurs, a human being will always act to meet the demand of the crisis (Feldman, 2008, p
The application of this theory could be gauged through determining whether the clients have an accurate awareness of self and need. Further, this can be an achieved through determining whether such clients are participating in healing relationships (McMinn, 1996)
(2002), hypothesized that manualized regimen of psychotherapy compared in a controlled clinical trial would overlap considerably in process and technique and that intervention strategies common to both treatments would be responsible for patient change. The researchers chose to conduct this study as a result of assumptions in most research that when a patient improves after undergoing psychotherapy, the improvement was caused by the specific interventions that were prescribed by a manual and monitored for adherence (Ablon et
Bickford (2004) observed that for both approaches, individual differences reflect different behavioral repertoires. Under the psychoanalytic approach, these repertoires are rooted in different ego strategies in mediating between reality and instinctual drives and wish-fulfillment, and in effects of different experiences during periods of psychosexual development (Bickford, 2004)
Gestalt therapy attempts to free the patient from mental, emotional, and physical energy blocks. From this perspective, every psychological problem can be explored and resolved as a polarized conflict between two aspects in personality (Fiebert, 1990)