Description
Building on the first two courses in this four-course series, students explore a biblical anthropology of the self�rooted in the Christian meta-narrative of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration�applying this understanding to the foundations of clinical psychology. Referred to as an �integrationist� approach, students competently integrate a Christian view of the human self into previously-established theoretical and empirical models within clinical psychology so as to help Christian clients ameliorate suffering. Students also develop the ability to start from a Christian view of the self, exploring ways to build theoretical and empirical models that are rooted in the Bible in order to help Christian clients heal, integrating clinical psychology as a way to strengthen a distinctly Christian view of the self. Areas of investigation, from an �integrationist� perspective, include spiritual development models, along with �Christian psychology� topics of consideration, such as human s