The Vast Increase in Knowledge

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The Vast Increase in Knowledge
Knowledge Doubled
64 BC AD1790
1790 - 1900
80 of the worlds total knowledge has been
brought forth in the last decade 90 of all
scientists who ever lived live today (2008).
1900 - 1950
1950 - 1960
1960 - 1965
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Emotional Problems
33 of hospital beds

• One-third of emergency-room beds and one-fifth of
  detention beds are occupied by mental health
  patients. And more than one-tenth of the prison
  beds are also occupied by mental health patients.
  Sound familiar? Welcome to the criminal justice
  system in southern Nevada.

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Emotional Problems
33 of hospital beds
80 of those surveyed experience psychiatric
symptoms (Manhattan Study)
1 in 5 feared a nervous breakdown
Suicide 10th leading cause of death
2nd among college students
3rd among 15-19 year-olds
Attempted every 3 min. successful every 30 min.
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TV Viewing Time for Children (U.S.)

• Children average 2.5 hours of TV viewing per day,
  compared to an average of one hour a day for
  homework.
• Preschoolers watch an average of 2.6 hours a day,
  elementary school children average about 2.4
  hours of TV viewing daily, and teenagers watch
  about 2.63 hours per day.

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U.S. Children's Viewing Habits

• According to survey results, 58 per cent of
  children watch at least two hours of television a
  day.
• Of the children surveyed, 66 per cent live in a
  household with three or more television sets.
• Over half (54 per cent) have a television set in
  their own room.
• About 55 per cent usually watch television alone
  or with friends, but not with their family.
• Approximately 44 per cent watch different shows
  when alone than when they're with their parents.

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Schools of Thought in Secular Counseling
1. Psychoanalysis (Freud)

• Based on the stages of the development of man
  (oral, anal, oedipal, and latent), a structure of
  personality (id, ego, and superego), and a
  technique of solving unresolved, unconscious
  conflicts

• Focus on individual introspection

• Technique free association

• Cause of Neurosis inheritance or
  environment no personal responsibility or
  problem of guilt

• Avoids the problem of morality

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Schools of Thought in Secular Counseling
1. Psychoanalysis (Freud)
2. Interpersonal School of Adler

• man is a product of society

• personality is determined more by social factors
  than by biologic ones

• felt that Freud had neglected the social
  influence on mans development

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Schools of Thought in Secular Counseling
1. Psychoanalysis (Freud)
2. Interpersonal School of Adler
3. Reality Therapy (Glasser)

• Do Right

• Face Reality

• Be Responsible

Focus on the present, not the past
Focus on behavior, not feelings
All who need psychiatric treatment suffer from
failing to fulfill two basic needs in lifelove
and self-worth.
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Schools of Thought in Secular Counseling
1. Psychoanalysis (Freud)
2. Interpersonal School of Adler
3. Reality Therapy (Glasser)
4. Transactional Analysis (TA)

• Based on 3 ego states in man parent, adult, and
  child

• Therapies Responsibility-oriented or
  Goal-oriented

• Giving strokes important

Eric Berne Games People Play
Thomas Harris Im OKYoure OK
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Schools of Thought in Secular Counseling
1. Psychoanalysis (Freud)
2. Interpersonal School of Adler
3. Reality Therapy (Glasser)
4. Transactional Analysis (TA)
5. Behavior Modification (Pavlov, Skinner, Wolpe)

• Stresses overt behavior and conditioning
  responses

• Emphasis positive reinforcement, negative
  reinforcement, desensitization, reciprocal
  inhibition, conditioned avoidance, and the
  concept of extinction

• Concerned with inappropriate behavior (learned
  habits) which can be modified

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Schools of Thought in Secular Counseling
1. Psychoanalysis (Freud)
2. Interpersonal School of Adler
3. Reality Therapy (Glasser)
4. Transactional Analysis (TA)
5. Behavior Modification (Pavlov, Skinner, Wolpe)
6. Client-oriented Therapy (Rogers)

• Positive regard towards counselee results in
  growth

• Non-directive, no interpretations, no praise, no
  criticism therapist must be honest transparent

• Acceptance of the counselee decreases anxiety
  leading to a regaining of contact with his true
  feelings values

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Schools of Thought in Secular Counseling
1. Psychoanalysis (Freud)
2. Interpersonal School of Adler
3. Reality Therapy (Glasser)
4. Transactional Analysis (TA)
5. Behavior Modification (Pavlov, Skinner, Wolpe)
6. Client-oriented Therapy (Rogers)
7. Analytical Psychotherapy (Jung)

• Drew on ancient Gnostic thinkers and mythology
  (Seven Sermons to the Dead, 1916)
• Patients must recover their memories, through
  which they can overcome the states of sleep,
  amnesia, and illusion that blight their lives.
• The Gnostic idea of salvation became the
  psychologists integration or individuation.
• Child abuse recovery movement of the 1980s and
  1990s.
• Memory is the gate through which we return to
  Eden.

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Schools of Thought in Secular Counseling
1. Psychoanalysis (Freud)
2. Interpersonal School of Adler
3. Reality Therapy (Glasser)
4. Transactional Analysis (TA)
5. Behavior Modification (Pavlov, Skinner, Wolpe)
6. Client-oriented Therapy (Rogers)
7. Analytical Psychotherapy (Jung)
8. Gestalt Therapy (associated with TA)

• extremely directive immediate feelings
  behavior stressed chair technique

9. Transcendental MeditationYogi (TM) 20 min.
twice/day meditating on a meaningless word
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Schools of Thought in Secular Counseling
1. Psychoanalysis (Freud)
2. Interpersonal School of Adler
3. Reality Therapy (Glasser)
4. Transactional Analysis (TA)
5. Behavior Modification (Pavlov, Skinner, Wolpe)
6. Client-oriented Therapy (Rogers)
7. Analytical Psychotherapy (Jung)
8. Gestalt Therapy (associated with TA)
9. Transcendental MeditationYogi (TM)
10. Primal Therapy (Janov) People are unhappy
because of a split between their early painful
experiences awareness of those experiences the
goal experience pain of early experiences
resolve emotions
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Limitations of Secular Therapies

• No standard of authority besides mans logic or
  conscience

• Will power can be insufficient

• Man is basically selfish, not good

• Limited to psychological (mind or emotion) no
  spiritual

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• Schizophrenia remains one of the most serious
  chronic diseases, attacking 1 to 2 of the
  population. Forty years ago patients suffering
  from schizophrenia occupied half of all the
  mental hospital beds and one-quarter of all
  hospital beds. Today, most of the mental
  hospitals have shut down but they have not
  disappeared. By refusing to accept patients, and
  by discharging them before they are ready for
  independent living, they converted the community
  into the new mental hospitals. About half of the
  homeless people on our streets are
  schizophrenics, many of whom have been treated in
  mental hospitals or psychiatric wards, placed on
  tranquilizers, and then discharged to fend for
  themselves.
• Patients do not recover. The recovery rate today
  is certainly under 15 which is one-third of the
  recovery rate achieved in 1850 in England and in
  the USA in the Dorothea Lynde Dix hospital in the
  eastern part of the country.

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• Wrote Dr. Sarnoff A. Mednick in Psychology Today,
  "We have been working on the problem of
  schizophrenia, however, for more than 100 years,
  and at this point it is fair-in fact necessary-to
  say that we know very little definite about the
  origins of this disease. Zero" (Mednick, "Birth
  Defects and Schizophrenia," Psychology Today,
  April, 1971).

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• The National Association for Mental Health
  admits, "We know very little about the causes of
  mental illness, and until we know much more, we
  cannot identify any sure way to prevent mental
  illness."

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• God warned 3,400 years ago that if men insisted
  upon breaking His laws and commandments, and
  living their own ways, the result would be
  disastrous. God said if we broke His laws we
  would be smitten with mental illnesses
• "The Eternal will strike your minds with madness,
  blindness, and dismay, till you grope at noon
  like a blind man in the dark, and fall into
  disaster" (Deut. 2828-29, Moffatt).
• The original Hebrew word for "madness" in this
  verse is shiggaown and refers to mental insanity,
  craziness -- a raving maniac. Interesting, isn't
  it, that 25 percent of our hospital beds today
  are occupied by victims of schizophrenia?

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Definition of Christian Counseling

• The ministry of one individual seeking to help
  another individual recognize, understand and
  solve his own problems in accordance with the
  Word of God.

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Six Reasons Christian Counseling is Unique
1.The Standard of Authority is the Bible, not
Conscience.
2. There is Dependence upon the Power of the Holy
Spirit, not just Will Power.
3. It Deals with the Whole Person, Going Beyond
the Mind.
4. It is Effective with the Past, Present, and
Future.
5. It is Based on Gods Love
6. It is Universal.
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Greek Verbs on Counseling
1 Thes. 514 (NASB) 14 And we urge you,
brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the
fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all
men.
Urge (parakalevw) - to call to or for, to exhort,
to encourage
Admonish (nouqetevw) - to admonish, exhort, warn
intended to produce a change in lifestyle
Encourage (paramuqevomai) - to encourage,
comfort, cheer up
Help (ajntevcomai) - cling to, hold fast to, be
devoted to take an interest in hold up
spiritually or emotionally
Be Patient (makroqumevw) - to persevere, to be
patient
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The Counselor God Uses Qualities that are
Essential
1. A life that is characterized by a PURSUIT of
God
2. Possession of a supernatural POWER through
dependence upon Gods Word
If God created the universe by His word, then
what could His word do in my life? Frank
Minirth (182)
3. Knows the importance of PRAYER
4. Values fellowship with godly PEOPLE
Men who have accomplished the most for Christ
were men who spent much time alone with Him. E.
M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer
5. Acts as PURVEYER of truth
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The Counselor God Uses Traits that are Helpful
1. Attitude of Acceptance Caring personal
2. Being a Good Listener
3. Adaptable to individual needs
4. Unshockable
5. Available Prompt
6. Genuine Realistic
7. Caring enough to Confront
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MEGATHEMES IN JOB
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The Sources of Suffering
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Advice from Friends
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Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
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How Suffering Affects Us
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God Speaks
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Gods Justice
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Four Views of Suffering
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Job Jesus
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When WE Suffer
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