Overview
Combining cutting-edge expertise with deeply rooted Christian insights, this text from a leading figure in the Christian counseling community offers readers a comprehensive survey of ten major counseling and psychotherapy approaches. For each approach, Siang-Yang Tan first 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 get a better sense of the clinical work involved. This book presents a Christian approach to counseling and psychotherapy that is Christ centered, biblically based, and Spirit filled.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Basic Issues in the Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy
1. Overview of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice
2. The Person of the Counselor
3. Legal and Ethical Issues in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Part 2: Major Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories and Techniques
4. Psychoanalytic Therapy
5. Adlerian Therapy
6. Jungian Therapy
7. Existential Therapy
8. Person-Centered Therapy
9. Gestalt Therapy
10. Reality Therapy
11. Behavior Therapy
12. Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
13. Marital and Family Therapy
Part 3: A Christian Approach to Counseling and Psychotherapy
14. Christian Theology in Christian Counseling: A Biblical Perspective on Human Nature and Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy
15. Christian Faith in Clinical Practice: Implicit and Explicit Integration
16. The Holy Spirit and Christian Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy
17. Legal and Ethical Issues in Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy
Appendix: Is Psychotherapy Effective?
Index
1. Overview of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice
2. The Person of the Counselor
3. Legal and Ethical Issues in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Part 2: Major Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories and Techniques
4. Psychoanalytic Therapy
5. Adlerian Therapy
6. Jungian Therapy
7. Existential Therapy
8. Person-Centered Therapy
9. Gestalt Therapy
10. Reality Therapy
11. Behavior Therapy
12. Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
13. Marital and Family Therapy
Part 3: A Christian Approach to Counseling and Psychotherapy
14. Christian Theology in Christian Counseling: A Biblical Perspective on Human Nature and Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy
15. Christian Faith in Clinical Practice: Implicit and Explicit Integration
16. The Holy Spirit and Christian Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy
17. Legal and Ethical Issues in Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy
Appendix: Is Psychotherapy Effective?
Index
Author
Siang-Yang Tan
Siang-Yang Tan (PhD, McGill University) is senior professor of clinical psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary, senior pastor emeritus of First Evangelical Church Glendale in Southern California, and the author of numerous books, including Lay Counseling, Shepherding God's People, and Coping with Depression. He is a licensed psychologist and a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Tan currently serves as spiritual director of the American Association of Christian Counselors.