Summary This faith centered workshop on marriage is based on scriptural steps, such as, Ephesians 5:25, and other biblical references that reflects the importance of building a marriage that focuses on helping clients build intimacy of God and each other. Coaches and...
209. Find a Way: The Connection between Relationships, Performance, Resilience, and Flourishing in Sports and Life
Summary Resilience does not emerge in isolation; it is formed, strengthened, and refined within relationships. This workshop for psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, medical personnel, academic faculty, and students explores how human connection serves...
212. Addiction, Hope, and Recovery in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Summary Addiction is often viewed through clinical and scientific lenses, but its nuanced portrayal in literature can provide profound insights into the human experience of substance use disorders and recovery. This workshop, co-led by a leading Tolkien scholar and an...
210. Cultural Intelligence in Christian Counseling: Developing Spirit-Led Multicultural Competence
Summary This interactive session explores how faith-based pastoral counselors, coaches and ministry leaders can integrate cultural intelligence with biblical principles to foster authentic cross-cultural relationships. Drawing from his forthcoming book The Impact of...
211. Religion and Health: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Applications from a Christian Perspective
Summary This session reviews current empirical evidence on the relationship between religion, spirituality, and health, drawing from major findings presented in the third edition of the Handbook of Religion and Health (Koenig, VanderWeele, & Peteet, 2024) and related...
302. From Chaos to Clarity: Understanding and Treating ADHD, Mood, Anxiety, and Behavioral Disorders from Childhood through the Transition to Adulthood
Summary Adults often treat children and adolescents as “mini adults,” expecting immediate understanding, compliance, and performance. Their brains, emotions, and attachment systems are still developing from childhood through the transition to adulthood, and their...
303. OCD and Religious Scrupulosity/Doubt: Game-changing Transdiagnostic Techniques for Difficult Issues
Summary Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating condition marked by persistent, intrusive thoughts or images that cause significant anxiety, often leading to compulsive behaviors or mental acts aimed at neutralizing the distress. One specific form of...
304. Take a Seat: A Faith-based Clinical Approach to Using the 3 Chairs Model to Address Trauma, Pain, and Addiction
Summary Chairwork is a hands-on, experiential intervention that can meaningfully enhance clinical practice by helping clients engage directly with their internal experiences. Originating in early psychodrama and later refined within cognitive-behavioral and...
306. Love After Trauma: Counseling Couples When One Has Survived Sexual Abuse
Summary When working with a couple with one of the spouses as a sexual abuse survivor, psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, medical personnel, and ministry leader need specific, key approaches for supporting couples who are navigating the effects of...
307. Help Children Self-Regulate and Self-Advocate: Remove Doubts, Increase Confidence, and Develop Healthy Independence
Summary In this practical and encouraging session, licensed mental health professionals, and ministry leaders will examine how helicopter parenting can inhibit children’s development of resilience, self-regulation, and self-advocacy. Participants will identify why...