James N. Sells & Amy Trout 
Beyond the Clinical Hour [EPUB ebook] 
How Counselors Can Partner with the Church to Address the Mental Health Crisis

The global mental health crisis is growing faster than our existing mental health care system can address. To meet the scope of human need, we need new models of care. The good news is that there is an institution uniquely positioned with the resources and the heart to help: the church.
Psychologists James Sells and Amy Trout and journalist Heather Sells know firsthand the urgency of the situation—but they have also witnessed creative partnerships between churches and mental health professionals springing up across the United States. In this book, they call clinicians, students, and educators to collaborate with churches and lay leaders to envision and then create innovative solutions in their own communities.
Challenging the dominance of the traditional ’clinical hour’ as a one-size-has-to-fit-all model, Sells, Trout, and Sells give concrete guidance on how mental health professionals can work with churches to provide consultation, train lay leaders, and develop and evaluate programs to expand a continuum of care. They also explore the skills, theological foundations, and research-based knowledge that both Christian counselors and church leaders need to integrate their spheres of expertise.
Both a call to action and an encouraging roadmap, this book charts the way forward for combining the science of the mental health discipline with the service of Christian ministry.
Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) Books explore how Christianity relates to mental health and behavioral sciences including psychology, counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy in order to equip Christian clinicians to support the well-being of their clients.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Ed Stetzer
Preface
Introduction: A Sign Tells a Story
Part 1: Where We Are: Describing the Mental Health Crisis
1. Synthesis of Care: The Confluence of Culture, Church, and Counseling
2. The Hurrier I Go, the Behinder I Get: Unpacking the Surge in Mental Health Concerns
Part 2: The Evolution of Integration
3. Integrating Integration: Approaches for Christians in Mental Health
4. Word and Deed: From Integration to Articulation
Part 3: Navigating the Way Forward
5. The Foundation of Christian Care: Biblical Theology in Contemporary Thought
6. Guided by Grace: Supervision in Christian Mental Health Practice
7. Bridging Perspectives: Consultation Between Clinicians and the Church
8. Fostering Sanctuary: Advancing Church Development and Evaluation
9. Integrity in Christian Mental Health: The Ethics and Economics of Care
The Last Word: Uniting Churches and Christian Mental Health Professionals
Subject Index

Om författaren

Ed Stetzer holds the Billy Graham Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and serves as executive director of the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism. He has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches, trained pastors and church planters on six continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and has written dozens of articles and books.