Hawkins & Clinton, (2015) argue about Christian counseling, mental health care and also the issue of psychotherapy. More so, this book talks of the diverging Christian counseling programs which are based on biblical teachings. This knowledge has been seen to help people in today's society making them be in a position to face life even after the hurtful experiences in life. Biblical explanations tend to pose a challenge to human being making them optimistic in facing life. Here is the need for Christian counselors to maintain the pace through carrying gout much research and practicing some of the confirmed activities that have been confirmed to work. If human beings can choose to respond to the challenges gotten from militant secularism,
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They say that there have been found to be a very serious gap in the field of mental health care. It had been seen a laughing issue when one happened to mention anything about Goa and faith in mental health matters. For a period, mental health care providers have been viewing faith as insignificant and more so a hindrance to therapy. The two scholars have argued that seekers need to be persistent when they are searching for professional counselors who greatly value faith as part of their therapeutic process. It has come to attention that many trained; licensed counselors are lesser believers of God which Hawkins and Clinton consider an unfortunate …show more content…
This is a skill that counselors need to use so as to be able to attend to their clients. The counselor should be in a position to listen to the past hurts of the client, listen to their present struggles and give them hope for the future. Christian counselors need to have the ability to listen and later hear clients instances of depression, stress, loss, anxiety, relationship problems, loneliness, divorce among others. The loneliness experience by Christians needs backup from the scriptures especially from the book of Genesis. Such scriptures talks of God and looking at all the things He had made and said that everything was good. By God giving Adam and Eve everything they desired to have, He urged them not to eat the forbidden fruit. This means that if Christians want to evade all their miseries, they should do according to God's
They say that there have been found to be a very serious gap in the field of mental health care. It had been seen a laughing issue when one happened to mention anything about Goa and faith in mental health matters. For a period, mental health care providers have been viewing faith as insignificant and more so a hindrance to therapy. The two scholars have argued that seekers need to be persistent when they are searching for professional counselors who greatly value faith as part of their therapeutic process. It has come to attention that many trained; licensed counselors are lesser believers of God which Hawkins and Clinton consider an unfortunate …show more content…
This is a skill that counselors need to use so as to be able to attend to their clients. The counselor should be in a position to listen to the past hurts of the client, listen to their present struggles and give them hope for the future. Christian counselors need to have the ability to listen and later hear clients instances of depression, stress, loss, anxiety, relationship problems, loneliness, divorce among others. The loneliness experience by Christians needs backup from the scriptures especially from the book of Genesis. Such scriptures talks of God and looking at all the things He had made and said that everything was good. By God giving Adam and Eve everything they desired to have, He urged them not to eat the forbidden fruit. This means that if Christians want to evade all their miseries, they should do according to God's