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Discover how faith shapes resilience and compassion in Christian mental health counseling, guiding clients toward healing and purpose. 
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Evidence suggests that having strong spiritual or religious beliefs, however defined, can assist psychologically in fighting, and coping with, illness.
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How prayer and religion may affect your healing - The
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Where in the brain does spirituality function? And what are the implications? Research published in Biological Psychiatry may have identified just that.
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We're Getting Closer To Finding The Brain Circuit Of Spirituality
Spirituality and the brain Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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Scripture has a clear vision for parents as stewards of our children. It’s not an instruction manual for modern parenting spats.
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What Are Parents For?
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In his letter to Catholics in the Middle East, the Holy Father expressed his closeness with those “who dwell in the lands of which the Scriptures speak most often.”
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
Pope Francis: ‘Prayer and fasting are the weapons of love that change history’
Power of prayer and fasting Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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In 1983, biblical scholar Robert Gundry was ousted from the Evangelical Theological Society. Gundry, in his lengthy commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, had suggested that Matthew tailored stories about Jesus to his specific audience, sometimes in nonhistorical ways. Theologian Norman Geisler, who spearheaded the ouster, believed this “undermine[d] confidence in the complete truthfulness of Rea
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
The Bible Contains Discrepancies. That Doesn’t Make It Untrustworthy.
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Despite practice guidelines for multiculturally competent care, including spiritual/religious diversity, most mental health graduate training programs do not formally address spiritual/religious competencies. Thus, we enhanced the Spiritual Competency Training in Mental Health (SCT-MH) course curriculum to train graduate students in foundational attitudes, knowledge, and skills for addressing clients’ spirituality and/or religion (S/R). The hybrid (online and in-person) SCT-MH course curriculum was integrated into existing required graduate clinical courses (replacing 15% of a course’s curriculum) and taught to 309 students by 20 instructors in 20 different graduate training programs across counseling, psychology, and social work disciplines. Using a multiple baseline waitlist control design in which students served as their own controls, students completed validated assessments at three timepoints evaluating their spiritual/religious competencies for understanding the intersection between S/R and mental health. We also collected qualitative data from the students to evaluate acceptability of the content and format of the training program. Students’ scores on all seven measures of spiritual/religious competencies had a statistically significant positive increase after engaging with the SCT-MH curriculum compared to the control period. At the end of the course, 97% of the students envisioned using spiritually integrated therapy techniques with their clients at least some of the time, 92% or more rated the materials as helpful and relevant, and 96% were satisfied with the training modules. Results demonstrate that dedicating a small (i.e., 6 hours of class time; 10 hours outside class time) but intentional amount of course time to teaching spiritual/religious competencies increases students’ attitudes, knowledge, and skills for attending to clients’ S/R in clinical practice. The SCT-MH hybrid course content is freely available to all graduate programs on our website. https://www.spiritualandreligiouscompetenciesproject.com/resources/sct-mh.
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
Enhancing training in spiritual and religious competencies in mental health graduate education: Evaluation of an integrated curricular approach | PLOS ONE
The importance of spiritual counseling with professional competency Please also review AIHCP's Spiritual Counseling Program
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Twentieth century theologian P.T. Forsyth’s work reminds Christians today to put the cross before and the world behind.
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
The Cross in an Age of ‘Spiritual Derangement’
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My work in conflict management helped me develop an effective way to navigate sensitive topics. Here’s what I found.
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
How to Talk About God and Politics in Polarized Times
Discussing God in the market place Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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Whether you’re a newlywed, empty-nester or busy building a business, God is with you in every stage of your life. Joe Warton explains how to make the most of right now
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How to find God in this season of life
Finding Christ in every aspect of life Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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In a Message to the XVII Inter-Christian Symposium, Pope Francis says all Christians must reaffirm the intrinsic dignity of every human person in th
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Pope: All Christians must reaffirm dignity of every human being - Vatican News
Human dignity Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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Tristan Azbej, Hungary’s state secretary for aid to persecuted Christians, hopes Hungary’s six-month rotating presidency of the EU Council will raise awareness regarding this major issue.
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Breaking Down the ‘Wall of Silence’ About Persecution of Christians| National Catholic Register
The reality of Christian persecution Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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Jesus told us not to worry, but worry is our culture’s parenting default. It’s harming our kids.
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An Anxious Generation—of Parents | Christianity Today
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Discover how Felicia Brookins blends faith with professional growth, offering insights on resilience, integrity, and success in her career journey.
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
How Faith And Storytelling Fuel Felicia Brookins’ Success
Faith and profession Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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At a Vatican news conference presenting the encyclical, an archbishop said that Dilexit Nos is the "key" to understanding Pope Francis' pontificate, presenting the spiritual and theological foundation underlying the pope's message for the past 12 years — that everything "springs from Christ and his love for all humanity."
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
Only love will save humanity, pope says in encyclical on Sacred Heart
Love Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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When a young Southern Baptist came out as gay, it prompted a ‘major reckoning’: could he reconcile his religion with his sexuality?
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‘What is my faith? What am I doing?’ The American evangelicals ‘deconstructing’ their religion to save it | Religion | The Guardian
Faith Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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St. Francis de Sales provides a number of practical tips for engaging in daily prayer that remain relevant in today's modern world.
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A practical guide to daily prayer from St. Francis de Sales
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Story at a glance While more Americans are distancing themselves from organized religion, most U.S. adults say they are spiritual. A survey from the Pew Research Center published Thursday found 7 out of 10 adults say they are “spiritual in some way.” It’s unclear if spirituality, whatever that might mean, is increasing among Americans.…
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
7 out of 10 Americans consider themselves spiritual: survey
Spirituality in America Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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My history of disordered eating means I practice the spiritual discipline in community and with accommodations.
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
Fasting Is A Good Thing. But For Some of Us, It's Complicated.
Fasting Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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In Jon Muth’s book Zen Shorts, we meet Stillwater, a giant panda who shares stories from China with three children. Addy hears a story about the value of gifting from
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Achieving spiritual wholeness | Opinion | postandcourier.com
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Q: Our family has a real desire to practice prayer in a way that makes a difference in our lives and a difference in the lives of those we pray
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
Prayer should not be merely an act; it is a way of life | Bible
Prayer has to be constant and part of life Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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Welcome to the ERLC Podcast, where our goal is to help you think biblically about today’s cultural issues. I’m Lindsay Nicolet, and today we’re talking about social media, teens, and mental health. In a recent article published by The Atlantic, Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, shares that rates of depression and anxiety in
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
How social media affects the mental health of teens
Effects of social media on kids Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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It was at the 35th General Congregation, held in 2008, that the Society of Jesus officially took a position on ecological issues, following a mention in a short decree of the 34th General Congregation held i
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Ecology and Jesuit spirituality | The Society of Jesus
Being a good steward Please also review AIHCP's Christian Counseling Certification
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Pope Francis encouraged Christians to reflect their faith through loving actions and the fruits of the Spirit, while calling for prayers for peace i
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Christians are called to spread 'fragrance of Christ,' pope says
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Spirituality is psychologically valuable. But research indicates that, somewhat surprisingly, people who identify as spiritual but not religious tend to have worse mental health.
American Institute Health Care Professionals's insight:
The Mental Health of the "Spiritual But Not Religious"
Mental health and spirituality Please also review AIHCP's Spiritual as well as Christian Spiritual Counseling Programs
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How Faith Strengthens Christian Mental Health Counseling
Faith and mental health counseling
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