Summary: We long for our patients to have access to supportive contexts that maximize the potential for transformation. Toward this end, individual psychotherapy therapeutic alliances, utilizing any number of interpersonal neurobiologically effective interventions, albeit having plainly demonstrated efficacy, remains limited in various ways that are addressed by group psychotherapy models. However, standard group models do not explicitly speak to the elements of spiritual formation that are equally necessary and efficacious for those people seeking psychiatric intervention within a biblically informed anthropological framework. This workshop will explore the formation and development of confessional communities as structures that support patients’ depth of growth in psychological and spiritual dimensions of life and across multiple psychiatric diagnostic states.
APA, ASWB, NBCC, IBCC, NAADAC, Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling