Logos Bible Software
Sign In
Products>The Christian Counselor’s Medical Desk Reference

The Christian Counselor’s Medical Desk Reference

Digital Logos Edition

Logos Editions are fully connected to your library and Bible study tools.

$20.99

Digital list price: $39.99
Save $19.00 (47%)

Ships 12/30/2024

Overview

Dr. Charles Hodges Jr. and a team of contributing physicians, health care professionals, and biblical counselors answer questions and offer solid biblical principles about counseling individuals with medical issues and address a variety of specific problems.

Biblical counselors and pastors often have questions when a counselee is struggling with a mixture of physical, emotional, and spiritual difficulties. The Christian Counselor’s Medical Desk Reference 2nd Edition helps counselors understand how some medical conditions impact counseling needs. Inspired by Dr. Bob Smith’s first edition, this book will help to guide counselors in offering specific reminders of gospel truth to counselees as they journey the road ahead.

The first section offers guidance for the extra challenges inherent with certain medical diagnoses. The second section examines the challenges associated with a variety of physical and mental conditions such as autoimmune disorders, PTSD, Alzheimer’s, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and more, helping counselors better understand the specific counseling needs that often accompany each condition.

  • Offers solid biblical principles about counseling individuals with medical issues.
  • Helps counselors understand how some medical conditions impact counseling needs.
  • Offers guidance for the extra challenges inherent with certain medical diagnoses.
  • Examines the challenges associated with a variety of physical and mental conditions.
  • Introduction
  • 1. What Is Medical about Mental Illness?
  • 2. The Scriptures Are Sufficient
  • 3. Counseling People with a Medical Illness
  • 4. When Should a Biblical Counselor Consult a Doctor?
  • 5. Depression: Medical Background and Biblical Hope
  • 6. Life-Altering Anxiety: Medical Background and Biblical Counseling Approach
  • 7. ADHD: Essential Medical Background and Biblical Counseling Guidelines
  • 8. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Essential Background Knowledge and Helpful Biblical Principles
  • 9. The Brain on Medication: An Overview of Foundational Concepts and Strategies
  • 10. A Biblical Counselor’s Perspective on Psychotropic Drugs
  • 11. Alternative Medications: Counseling People in Need of Biblical and Medical Discernment
  • 12. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Medical Principles and Biblical Priorities
  • 13. Schizophrenia: Medical Background and Biblical Principles
  • 14. Bipolar Disorder: Medical and Biblical Perspectives
  • 15. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Rewriting the Narrative to Include Hope
  • 16. Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS): Medical Background and Biblical Hope
  • 17. Postpartum Depression: Medical Background and Biblical Hope
  • 18. Suicide and the God of All Comfort: Helping Suicidal Counselees and Their Loved Ones Draw Near to God
  • 19. Marijuana and CBD: Navigating the Medical, Legal, and Spiritual Issues Involved
  • 20. Dementia: Comforting the Sufferer and the Caregiver
  • 21. Sleep Disorders: Medical Background and Biblical Guidance
  • 22. Applying the Practice of Biblically Based Medicine to Rheumatology
  • Contributor Bios
Dr. Charles Hodges has performed a marvelous service to biblical counselors by assembling a tremendous team to address key issues that may require medical intervention. I look forward to having a copy of this book on my shelf for reference whenever I am trying to determine whether it would be wise to consult a medical doctor, so my counsel to others is as compassionate and comprehensive as possible.

—Steve Viars, Senior Pastor, Faith Church, Lafayette, IN

This is a book every pastor and Christian counselor needs to own and to which they will often refer. The authors combine the wealth of their extensive medical training and experience with their commitment to and knowledge of God’s Word. The case studies in each chapter effectively help the reader to better understand medical issues that often come up in counseling and the potential approaches to offer help. Difficult issues are dealt with humbly and carefully. I will encourage every one of my students to buy and use this book.

—Jim Newheiser, Professor of Counseling and Pastoral Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC; executive director, The Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship (IBCD); board member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition (BCC) and the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC)

This medical reference book is an important resource for biblical counselors, showing the wisdom of caring for both the body and soul. Charles Hodges and the other contributors provide medical and biblical perspectives that are informative and readable. Around twenty years ago, I used the first edition as a biblical counseling student, and I look forward to sharing the second edition with my students.

—Lilly Park, Associate Professor of Biblical Counseling, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Charles Hodges, MD, is a family physician. He is a graduate of Indiana School of Medicine and also received an MA in Counseling and MA in Religion from Liberty University. He is the executive director of Vision of Hope, a counselor and instructor at Faith Biblical Counseling Ministry, and a fellow for the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC). He is the author of Good Mood, Bad Mood: Hope for Depression and Bipolar Disorder, a contributing author of Caring for the Souls of Children, and editor of The Christian Counselor's Medical Desk Reference, 2nd Edition. He and his wife, Helen, have four children, thirteen grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.

Reviews

1 rating

Sign in with your Logos account

  1. Anderson Abreu

    Anderson Abreu

    10/11/2024

$20.99

Digital list price: $39.99
Save $19.00 (47%)

Ships 12/30/2024