Words Have Meaning
Words really do have meaning. Kind of an obvious thought, I know. Most people understand the principle. What many forget is that words have multiple meanings. Assuming others conjure up the same image with the same accompanying emotions as I do when they hear me use a particular word is the essence of miscommunication. Miscommunication [...]
What To Expect From Counseling: Part 2
With Christmas, holidays, and trying to do a week’s worth of work in 2 1/2 days, it’s easier just to post something old. The following is an excerpt from a pamphlet we at Christian Family Institute make available to ministers. Counselors use a variety of tools and techniques to help people change the things that [...]
What To Expect From Counseling: Part 1
With Christmas, holidays, and trying to do a week’s worth of work in 2 1/2 days, it’s easier just to post something old. The following is an excerpt from a pamphlet we at Christian Family Institute make available to ministers. Prospective clients have formed their expectations of counseling based on what they have heard from [...]
On Christian Counseling
Adrian Warnock recently wrote a post titled “On pastoring and Christian counselling“. In it he listed a few of his old posts about Christian counseling and asked readers “What thoughts do you have on Christian Counselling? What resources or links have you found helpful?”. (I have to admit, every time I read Adrian’s posts on [...]
Are there different types of Christian counseling?
The following is an excerpt from a pamphlet we at Christian Family Institute make available to ministers. In a classic article written for Christianity Today in 1975, Gary Collins suggested that today’s Christian counselors fall into five categories. The first category Collins called “the main stream.” Main stream pastoral counselors generally have taken Clinical Pastoral [...]
In Support of Marriage
I’m just not sure what to think of this news article: Marriage Art Contest Ruffles School Officials. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families is prepared to spend money in support of healthy marriages. The idea is that healthy, functional marriages will prevent social ills. So a social service [...]
The Value of a Mom
What’s a full-time, stay-at-home Mom worth? An analysis by Salary.com found that today’s 5.4 million stay-at-home moms would earn $131,471 in annual salary, including overtime pay, if they were doing the same work for an employer. This Mom, however, decided some things just aren’t worth it. Local Mom Auctions Off Family’s Mess On eBay.
Parenting and Porn
Stacy Harp, an MFT intern, has a provacatively titled post (Why Internet Cameras Should Be Banned) referencing this story from the New York Times. The Times story focuses on the ills and dangers of the internet. “(This) dark coming-of-age story is a collateral effect of recent technological advances. Minors, often under the online tutelage of [...]
Eating Disorders May Begin in Toddlerhood
Parents Encourage Thin Daughters and Substantial Sons at Age Three An article in the November issue of International Journal of Eating Disorders reports that parents worry that their three-year-old daughters are eating too much and that their three-year-old sons aren’t eating enough. Thomas E. Joiner, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Florida State University said, [...]
William Proxmire’s Golden Fleece Awards
William Proxmire died last week. The Wisconsin Democrat was a fiscal conservative best known for awarding the monthly Golden Fleece Awards for wasteful government spending. As an undergrad, I had a double major in Psychology and Social Sciences Education: I once combined these two interests in a paper on the Golden Fleece’s awarded to psychology [...]
