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EPISODE NOTES

Notes and resources relevant to this episode:

“Attitudes of Religious Leaders Toward Integrating Psychology and Church Ministry“
Adam S. Hodge and Joshua N. Hook, University of North Texas; Don E. Davis, Georgia State University; Mark R. McMinn, George Fox University.

Though I think I could make a reasonable stab at distinguishing the words “therapy” and “counseling” for my purposes they are the same.

I consider “secular” as in quotation marks because often our judgments of what that means are blurry. It’s sometimes used to minimize the legitimacy of approaches outside of a particular Christian culture, which is unfair. For my purposes, it refers to a perspective that does not directly arise from theistic convictions.

Here, too, there is a distinction of labeling. Counselors tend to have clients and therapists tend to have patients and the distinction is immaterial to me.

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