Seasoned counselors and professors Tim Clinton and Ron Hawkins provide a landmark reference that offers a capstone definition of the emerging profession and ministry of the Christian counselor. Appropriate for professional counselors, lay counselors, pastors, students, and teachers, it includes nearly 300 entries by nearly 100 top Christian counselors. At approximately 500 pages, this practical guide focuses on functional aspects of Christian counseling and explores such important topics as...

• Christian counseling as a profession, ministry, and lay ministry
• Spiritual and theological roots
• Social, emotional, and relational issues
• Skills and essentials in Christian helping
• Ethical and legal considerations
• Intake, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning
• Premarital counseling, family therapy, and substance abuse

Counselors will also find up-to-date information on solution-based brief therapy, cognitive therapy and biblical truth, and trauma and crisis intervention. An essential resource for maintaining a broad and up-to-date perspective on helping others.

Packed with 10 essential parenting strategies, Clinton and Sibcy help parents understand the strengths and weaknesses of parenting styles, and offer a proven method for raising healthy, happy, well-balanced kids.

Todos los temas tratados siguen un esquema til en siete partes que identifica s ntomas y patrones t picos, definiciones e ideas clave, preguntas que hacer, instrucciones para la conversaci n, pasos a seguir, sabidur a b blica y oraciones de muestra. Los numerosos temas abordados incluyen: - la influencia de la cultura y los medios de comunicaci n - la sexualidad - el estr s - el alcohol y las drogas - la relaci n entre padres y adolescentes

Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies typical symptoms and patterns, definitions and key thoughts, questions to ask, directions for the conversation, action steps, biblical insights, prayer starters, and recommended resources. The many issues addressed include: - culture and media influence - sexuality - stress - drugs and alcohol - parent-adolescent relationships

In this transformational book, the authors have used ground-breaking research to develop four primary patterns of relating to one another that shed light on our actions--and how we can learn to love and be loved even better.

Why has the human race, the world over, been so fascinated with...some might say obsessed with...God? This built-in attachment to God crosses religious, political, ethnic, cultural, and generational barriers.

Drs. Clinton and Straub reveal fascinating research about this worldwide phenomenon. From avoidant, anxious, and fearful to secure and personal, the range of responses to our internal attachment to God has a profound influence on the way we do relationships, intimacy, and life choices.

With helpful self-assessments, intriguing questions, and surprising revelations, this book moves from worldwide statistics to personal challenge, offering the means to become securely attached to God in a way that can have positive effects on our attitudes, approach to life, and overall life satisfaction.

20-25% of Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness. Divorce is epidemic. Abuse of all kinds is rampant. Suicidality is at an all-time high. Domestic violence is out of control. Cohabitation and out of wedlock births are at unprecedented levels. Addictions are more widespread than ever.

These and many other problems confront our culture today in alarming proportions. Consequently, mental and relational health issues find their way home. To everyone's home.

People with these and other concerns typically turn first to the church for help. Yet most churches are not equipped to adequately minister to the depth and magnitude of these overwhelming problems. This book was created as a comprehensive resource to provide the church with practical tools to care for these hurting people in a biblically sound and emotionally healthy way.

We at the American Association of Christian Counselors hope and pray this book finds its way into the hands of every pastor, church leader, counselor, and Christian caregiver in America. Because the struggle is real. The struggle is real indeed.

This is a lineup of experienced healers and caring writers. It will be a valuable resource for the field of mental and emotional health for years to come.

John Ortberg, Ph.D., Senior Pastor of Menlo Church, Menlo Park, CA,

Clinical Psychologist and best-selling author

People everywhere are hurting, including those inside the church. Written by a team of experts, this important resource is designed to shine the wonderful and liberating light of the gospel into the dark and difficult areas of people's lives. What's here will heal. You need this book and the people you love need it too.

Johnnie Moore, Founder, The KAIROS Company

People today are struggling in ways that only the church can help. The Struggle is Real is an excellent resource for equipping ministry leaders and counselors alike to meet this most pressing need.

Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference

I heartily recommend The Struggle Is Real...Clinton and Pingleton have provided exactly what the church needs.

Jeremiah J. Johnston, Ph.D., President, Christian Thinkers Society,

Professor, Houston Baptist University

We are not fine; the people we serve are not fine-we all struggle This book is an invaluable resource for helping us minister to people who need our understanding.

Greg Surratt, Founding Pastor, Seacoast Church, Mount Pleasant, SC,

President, Association of Related Churches (ARC)

In this book, Tim Clinton and Jared Pingleton provide a solid guide to better understand the issues and dynamics of trouble that people experience and how to effectively minister to them.

George O. Wood, P.Th.D., J.D., former General Superintendent, The General Council of the Assemblies of God

Tim Clinton has seen three outcomes through his marriage counseling practice-divorce, marriage in name only, and reconciliation. Reconciliation is, by far, the most difficult option. In Before a Bad Goodbye, he shows couples at the breaking point how to nurture forgiveness, develop mutual respect and demonstrate selfless love on a new path to reconciliation.

We all know of families or marriages in crisis. When those suffering in such situations turn to us for help, where do we turn? The Quick-Reference Guide to Marriage & Family Counseling provides the answers. This A-Z guide gives the information needed to help congregants, clients, and friends with their most important relationships. The many issues addressed include - affairs and adultery - communication in marriage - divorce proofing - parenting

This book is so compelling that I skipped an NFL playoff game because I could not stop reading. This story will instruct and inspire.
--Michael Lyles M.D., Christian psychiatrist, author and speaker

The Impressionist causes us to face the truth about ourselves and our desperate need for a Savior.
--Liz Curtis Higgs, New York Times bestselling author of Mine is the Night

Middle aged, disappointed and self-loathing, Adam Camp is anything but the picture of a successful man. With his wife threatening to leave him and their son addicted to drugs, Adam teeters on the verge of absolute despair--questioning his own existence and purpose for living.

After an explosive argument with his wife, Adam searches for an escape as he sets out on a journey that will dramatically recolor his world. While walking through the city park, Adam is approached by an old painter. The mysterious artist convinces Adam to let him paint his portrait and what happens next is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Combine the insights of Tim Clinton and the storytelling of Max Davis, and what you get is a wonderfully entertaining glimpse into the very soul of human existence.
--Mark Gilroy, bestselling author Cuts Like a Knife and Every Breath You Take

The Impressionist is one of those rare books that tugs on your heartstrings, unveiling things deep within your soul, things you didn't even know were there. Anticipate it and savor it!
--Larry J. Koenig, Ph.D., Author of Smart Discipline and Mental Toughness: the Path to Extraordinary Success in Life

Transformation is waiting to be unlocked in these pages!
--Margaret Feinberg, author of Wonderstruck

...a heart-warming story of hope and redemption.
--Max Lucado, pastor and NY Times bestselling author

AMERICA IS AT A CROSSROADS.
The fight for our faith, family, and future is NOT OPTIONAL.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide are at all-time highs. Divorce is prevalent. Children are growing up without fathers in the home, and the family unit as a whole is suffering. Dr. Tim Clinton, one of America's leading voices on faith and mental health, sounds the call for people around the country to step into the moment and rise up to focus on the future of America.

What does the future hold for America? Will the current and coming cultural battles ultimately destroy or preserve our freedoms?

From the president of the American Association of Christian Counselors Dr. Tim Clinton, an eminent American counselor and associate of Dr. James Dobson, believes this moment in American history is a reprieve. It is a moment to take stock. We must know the season we are in, maximize our opportunities, and ready ourselves for the cultural battles that are sure to befall us. It is a moment to prepare. It is a moment to focus on the future.

And it starts with you

The future is bright, the victories are destined, and great things await the faithful who prepare.

THE FUTURE, ANCHORED IN CHANGE AND HOPE, BELONGS TO THOSE WHO WILL STEP UP AND INTO THE MOMENT...NOW.

FOREWORD BY DR. GARY CHAPMAN Best-selling author of The 5 Love Languages

The American Psychological Association asserts that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful. Many agree that forcing men to behave in accordance with the worst stereotypes of manliness harms them, and it harms others. But is the answer then to marginalize and feminize men? Despite culture's determination to redefine masculinity, the great heart cry of our day is for men to rise up and take back their rightful place. It's a cry that echoes deep in the soul and from all ends of our society, and particularly from the women who love their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons. Most women want their men to be honored and to stand up and be men.

Men have faltered and lost a lot of influence and territory. The good news is that for many who struggle there is often a daily yearning to make it right.

The reality is, masculinity is not and never was toxic.

Tim Clinton, president of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), challenges readers to reject culture's redefinition and seek biblical examples of true manhood. Fast-paced, filled with relevant biblical and contemporary stories of godly men like David, Nehemiah, George Foreman, and Tim Tebow, Take It Back empowers men to be who God created them to be and to impact the culture that is in desperate need of their influence.

Readers will find encouragement and affirmation that they matter as men, that they can be difference-makers in their circles of influence and have a positive impact on the culture. They will find grace for their shame over past mistakes and find the ability to move forward.

This book will help you find encouragement and affirmation that you matter as a man, that you can be a difference-maker in your circle of influence and have a positive impact on the culture. You will find grace to overcome your shame over past mistakes and find the ability to move forward.