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Clinical and Professional Care
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- Psychology and Christianity: Five Views · Resource
Maps the Christian views on psychology, including biblical counseling. - Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) · Resource
Association of Christian clinicians and researchers. - Mental Health Grace Alliance · Resource
Christian peer support that complements professional treatment.
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Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS)
Association of Christian psychologists, counselors, therapists, social workers, researchers and students (more than 1,200 members in the U.S., Canada and 25+ other countries), publishing the Journal of Psychology and Christianity and holding an annual conference.
American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC)
Describes itself as the world’s largest Christian mental health organization, serving licensed professionals, pastors and lay counselors with training, webinars, continuing education, credentialing and a Code of Ethics.
Psychology and Christianity: Five Views
Compares five approaches to how Christians should relate to psychology: biblical counseling (David Powlison), levels of explanation (David Myers), integration (Stanton Jones), Christian psychology (Robert Roberts and P. J. Watson) and a transformative view (John Coe and Todd Hall).
Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores
Book (2015) drawing on more than forty years of counseling trauma and abuse survivors: what trauma destroys Christ can restore, slowly, through talking, tears and time, with patience from family, friends and counselors.
Global Trauma Recovery Institute (GTRI)
Initiative housed at Biblical Theological Seminary offering training, clinical supervision and case consultation in trauma recovery for mental health clinicians, ministry leaders and professionals, at home and abroad.
Mental Health Grace Alliance
Christian mental-health recovery ministry (since 2011) offering peer- and lay-led support groups and free training for group leaders, in English, Spanish and Chinese; it reports serving over 30,000 participants in 58+ countries.
International OCD Foundation: What Is OCD and Scrupulosity?
Secular, evidence-based explanation of scrupulosity (religious or moral OCD), which the page says affects people of all faiths, and of its main treatment: cognitive behavior therapy with exposure and response prevention (ERP), with medication in some cases.
Scrupulosity and OCD Information Packet for Faith Leaders
20-page packet for clergy compiled from IOCDF, ADAA and AnxietyCanada material: what OCD and scrupulosity are, ERP, how accommodating and giving reassurance can feed OCD, and questions for clergy.