Reflections on Doing Counseling and Christian Family Therapy

J Pastoral Care Counsel. 2022 Dec;76(4):304-306. doi: 10.1177/15423050221117760. Epub 2022 Aug 9.

Abstract

Reflecting on his long career that integrated medicine, therapy, and Christian theology, the author shares his insight to help future students to have a simple framework of doing counseling, family therapy, and relating to the Christian faith. This article offers his personal views on how to do therapy, and proposes a way of looking at a Christian theory of personality, and towards a Christian theory of marriage and family therapy.

Keywords: Christian personality theory; Christian theory of family therapy; Counseling; family therapy.

MeSH terms

  • Christianity / psychology
  • Family Therapy*
  • Humans
  • Pastoral Care*
  • Theology