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