CO131 Integrative Counseling
Overview
In Introduction to Integrative Counseling, Dr. Dave Wenzel provides students with a comprehensive overview of a counseling technique that combines psychology, science, and physiology with theology, spirituality, and faith. Dr. Wenzel, a teacher and a practicing counselor, begins by looking at the historical phases of integration relative to the development of the fields of psychology and psychiatry, as well as a survey of major integration models. From there, he explores the role Scripture, faith, and spirituality can play in counseling and provides practical guidance on how to bring faith into the counseling session. The course covers foundational concepts such as sin, psychopathology, and the self, and concludes with some specific tips on how to counsel suffering people.
Top Highlights
“Freud became hostile toward religion and labeled it as unhealthy” (source)
“A person’s feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and actions should line up as close as possible. If we believe something that we don’t act on, we’ve got incongruence. If we do something we don’t want to do and we have bad feelings, we have incongruence.” (source)
“Crabb argued that it was okay for the Christians to do essentially what the Israelites had done during the exodus, which was to go into the Egyptians and take everything that was valuable and make a run for it. In this camp, psychological principles that were in alignment with Scripture were utilized and other things were tossed out.” (source)
“It’s important to note that it would be eighty-four years, not till 1976, before division 36 was started, which is the psychology of religion. So for eighty-four years, the field of psychology did not consider religious studies crucial enough to be included as an APA subgroup.” (source)
“In the end, if we create a class of victims, we disempower people, and it’s important that we keep people empowered for holy living.” (source)
- Title: CO131 Integrative Counseling
- Author: Dave Wenzel
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Christianity › Psychology; Psychology and religion; Pastoral counseling; Education › Christianity--Psychology; Education › Psychology and religion
- Resource ID: LLS:CO131WENZEL
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2019-08-07T23:44:52Z
Dr. Dave Wenzel earned his PhD in counseling from Loyola University Maryland. He also has master’s degrees in both divinity and theology from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He is a licensed professional counselor and a nationally certified counselor. He has been a professor of counseling for 19 years. His clinical experience includes the Veterans Administration, outpatient drug and alcohol, inpatient psychiatric, and outpatient community mental health. He also trained for two years in the Isaac Taylor Institute of Psychiatry and Religion in Columbia, Maryland.
Formerly, he served as the clinical director of the Sandy Family Services DUII program, clinical director at Sunnyside Counseling Center from 1994–2007, and director of the counseling program at Western Seminary from 1994–2010. His professional interests include child development, parenting, clinical supervision, and the role of spirituality in mental health. In addition to his teaching and presentation of professional continuing education, he frequently speaks to community groups on parenting, family communication, marriage, and relationships.