Christian Counseling: An Area of Cultural Diversity?

Reviews the videotape, Christian Counseling with Mark R. McMinn. The American Psychological Association (APA) first gave serious acknowledgment to the vital role of faith in the practice of psychotherapy when it published Shafranske's (1996) Religion and the Clinical Practice of Psychology. This edited volume did well, and it has been followed by a number of related books in the ensuing years. The APA's expanding openness to the inclusion of spirituality in psychotherapy continues with its videotape series "Spirituality", and the volume interviewing Mark R. McMinn grants specific focus to Christian counseling. The host of the video, Jon Carlson, asks timely questions to elicit important aspects of McMinn's approach, one which McMinn cautions is only his and not reflective of all who do Christian forms of psychotherapy. Indeed, McMinn's is only one approach to what Christian psychologists have termed integration, the endeavor to take psychological data, theories, and techniques and mesh them with Christian teachings and theology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)