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Theological Perspectives on Mental Health
PC137-812

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Online, every semester

Lecturer: David Powlison, recorded lectures

Tutor: Karl Hood

Overview: 1. History of pastoral counselling; 2. Model building in counselling; 3. An approach to analysis and critical
evaluation of counselling models; 4. Primary source readings in Christian and secular counselling; 5. Future directions for biblical pastoral counselling.

Textbooks: E. L. Johnson ed., Psychology and Christianity: Five Views, 2nd edn (Downers Grove: IVP, 2010). D. A. Powlison, The Biblical Counselling Movement (Greensboro: NGP, 2010).

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Theological Perspectives on Mental Health PC137-812