¶ … Weld and Eriksen's "Christian client's preferences regarding prayer as a counseling intervention." This article was based on empirical evidence gathered about the preferences of Christians seeking mental health counseling regarding the utilization of prayer. That evidence was based on a pair of survey instruments, The Brief Therapist Survey and The Prayer Survey for clients. One of the most interesting aspects of this study is that it considered the preferences for prayer utilized in mental health from both the client and the therapist perspective, as the aforementioned survey instruments were respectively targeted to the clients and the surveys. Largely because of the information explained in the literature review that there was a dearth of literature about the preference of how exactly clients wanted prayer used in counseling, there was no hypothesis on the part of the authors. However, they were able to select both clients and therapists from a fairly wide range of organizations including one expressly related to church. The results were extremely significant because they revealed that more than three fourths of the clients preferred "audible prayer" (Weld and Eriksen, 2007, p. 333) and that Christian counselors tend to employ praying aloud with their clients. The findings also indicate that clients prefer prayer in a wide variety of interventions, and that counselors tend to utilize prayer in a number of different interventions. Clients also wanted counselors to issue prayers...
Lastly, results demonstrated that conservatives attributed greater significance to prayer than liberals, and that those with previous Christian counseling expected prayer more than those without such experience (Weld and Eriksen, 2007, p. 328). The implications are that counselors should attempt to link prayer to counseling interventions.
There are other insights, also described above, that I have gleaned form reading this particular article, which is why I chose it. Though I have my own opinions about prayer within counseling, I do believe that everyone is entitled to handle his or her sessions as they would like. However, I was quite surprised at the 82% statistic, as I had often believed that those who underwent counseling would be
Christian counseling has become an important treatment modality for a growing number of health care practitioners and patients across the country in recent years. Introduced during the early 1980s, Christian counseling advocates integrating religious practices and beliefs founded on religious traditions with psychotherapeutic techniques to provide an optimal approach to helping people cope with a wide range of personal problems and family issues. The purpose of this study is to
Counseling and Prayer Christian Prayer in Counseling "Christian Clients' Preferences Regarding Prayer as a Counseling Intervention" is a quantitative study by Weld and Eriksen (2007) in the Journal of Psychology and Theology. Their study used a survey of counselors and their Christian clientele with a Pearson and Fisher approach to quantifying the data. The implications of the analysis are used to discuss the counselor-patient relationship in terms of prayer, expectations, secularity, race,
Christian Counseling According to McMinn Counseling others through difficult time, challenging personal crises or the simple complexities of everyday life requires patience, compassion and selflessness. These are also all features of a good Christian life devoted to fellowship and the scriptures. These are the ideas at the crux of Mark McMinn's 1996 text Psychology, Theology and Spirituality in Christian Counseling. At its most basic, the text is an outline of the
Counseling Model A Practical Pastoral Counseling Model Counseling Setting Where Will Counseling Take Place? Boundaries for Safety and Security Relational Style Relational/Communication Style Structure/Strategy Sessions Summation Supportive Feedback God's Riches at Christ's Expense Annotated Bibliography A Practical Pastoral Counseling Model This is an overview of the counseling position that I will take when working with clients/parishioners. I realize that this cannot encompass every eventuality that may occur during a counseling session, but it should be comprehensive enough to account for most of the possibilities
They claim that it relaxes them and makes them feel at ease. How true is this and what are the reasons behind it? If they indeed do help in bringing relief from stress then this would be a medical breakthrough. People are seen to take many medications for stress, some go into a state of depression and the productivity of others falls to very low levels. If such a
Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.
Get Started Now