How Christian Counselors Can Change The Lives of Troubled Girls

With the unprecedented rise of Christian Therapists -- including those utilized by Christian Boarding Schools for wayward teenage girls from -- and Christian therapy centers that are springing up throughout the US, we thought we'd give readers a thorough analysis of what Christian Counselors do and how they can assist teenage girls in overcoming severe mental and behavioral issues.

1 Corinthians 2:16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.”

Below is an assessment of what Christian Counseling is and Isn't - such as how counseling applies to all Christian Counselors, not just those hired by a troubled residential treatment center for troubled girls.

What Is Christian Counseling?

As the title implies, Christian counseling is a Christ-centered psychological therapy that integrates spiritual doctrines and traditional mental health treatments. A Christian therapist may bring up biblical values and, with authorization, pray with patients. They may also talk about faith-based statements while managing the mental health problems of their patients as well.

2 Corinthians 11:3 “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.”

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Accredited Christian counselors can analyze and treat mental illnesses, such as anxiety and clinical depression, and approach their spiritual needs.

Christian counseling is distinct from nonreligious therapy. According to the International Association of Biblical Counselors, Biblical counselors "seek to thoughtfully pinpoint those areas in which a Christian may be rebellious to the dogmas and declarations of Scripture and help one learn how to submit to Jesus' will.

Romans 12:1 "Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship."

Christian therapists, consequently, do approach psychology, albeit via a biblical lens. Christian counselors view the Bible as the origin of all truth like pastors and other church leaders.

1 Peter 1:13 “Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

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The History of Christian Counseling

Christian counseling was formed between the late 1960s and early 1970s with the Biblical Counseling Movement led by Jay E. Adams. Adams's 1970 book Competent to Counsel advocated a Christian-based method that conflicted with the time's psychological and psychiatric resolutions.

Principles of Christian Counseling

Christian counselors focus on a few main principles:

They focus on providing care that treats the entire person, which includes: the body, psyche, and spirit, as it is also occasionally named "soul-care," and reinforces the values instructed in the Bible. Christian therapists strive to help teenage girls in need reacquire a sense of pursuit for their lives that align with Jesus Christ's teachings.
Christian counselors contend that the nature of what they do is to support others to obtain a better insight of themselves and God, which is embedded in the Holy Spirit's conviction.
Christian counselors and psychiatrists attempt to make teenage patients aware of the sin that has caused them suffering and come to understand their monumental value as a person to God.

Christian Counselors Incorporating Psychology

Measures to integrate counseling, psychotherapy, or other organized or academic initiatives with Christian or different ecclesiastical viewpoints or methods are occasionally called "integration."

Luke 22:20 “And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.”

Integration of academic dialogues with religion has a long history in academia and remains in many universities and institutes that have resumed their instituting religious foundations. However, there are varied classifications of integration, as it has been translated differently over the years.

Christianity has been compounded with psychology thus far by meditating on how psychoanalysis and the Bible agree while not omitting the instructions of psychology that don't conform with the Bible. While this tact is still in maturation and remains to be scrutinized, there have been noteworthy measures to try and meld the two.

Isaiah 53:5 “But He was pierced through for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.”

For example, Stanton Jones and Richard Buteman came up with three different methods of integrating psychology and the Christian religion. The methods are called practical eclecticism, metatheoretical eclecticism, and academic integration.

The first method, sensible eclecticism, looks at the best resolutions for determining patients' issues based on a previous analysis comparing different ways they have been used. The second procedure refers to the counselor's cogency and looks at the tactics they are utilizing that are restorative and those that are not.

The third technique takes formerly existing hypotheses and makes them the baseline upon which further analysis can build. All Christianity and psychology integrators believe that the underlying truth is that all truth is God's truth.

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." 2 Corinthians 5:17