Research has shown that families of children and adolescents with mental health conditions are less likely to attend church services than unaffected families. Depression is associated with a 73% reduction in family worship service attendance. In contrast, disruptive...
Pastors
421 | Social Services and the Church: Collaborating for the Safety of Children
This presentation will give ministry leaders and licensed mental health professionals specific and creative methods to bridge the gap between local social services and churches. When churches and social services work together for the common good of protecting...
424 | What is Your Number?: Using the Enneagram to Enhance Your Coaching and Consulting Practice
This workshop is designed for coaches, pastors, pastoral counselors, or lay counselors interested in incorporating the Enneagram into their coaching and consulting practice. The Enneagram is a powerful tool for personal and professional growth, and this workshop will...
425 | Front Stage/Back Stage: Your External Success Requires Internal Health
Like a theater play, leaders have a frontstage and a backstage. The frontstage is the public world, and the backstage is the private world. An authentic story originates backstage. Clients live in a frontstage-dominated world, yet core longings such as belonging,...
311 | The Psychology of Divine Forgiveness within Clinical Practice
Forgiveness is a key concept in Christianity. Christian clients are often motivated to practice forgiveness because of their Christian faith. However, their understanding of divine forgiveness can also be a source of confusion. This presentation is aimed to clarify...
312 | Relational Spirituality in Coaching: Building a Secure Base to Help Your Clients Flourish
Social disconnection is on the rise. As a result, many Christians, including leaders, feel disconnected, leading to unhealthy relational patterns, spiritual struggles, and ineffective ministry. How, then, do ministry leaders and coaches help clients cultivate...
313 | A Cord of Three Strands: Intentional Collaboration Between Counselor, Church, and Focused Support Groups
All licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders desire to improve treatment outcomes for hurting people. In the same way that physical healthcare has become more specialized in recent years, so has mental healthcare, resulting in a growing number of...
315 | Support in the Journey: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Adoptive and Foster Families
Caring for children through adoption and foster care is critically important. However, the journey of adoption and foster care can be challenging, and families are often not prepared to meet the unique challenges of their children (e.g., trauma, attachment...
316 | Assured Hope: Using Meditative Prayer and Neuroscience to Bring Healing
Today’s culture wrestles with the concepts of good and evil. According to biblical teaching, Christian clients see evil winning battles when foundational biblical truths are eliminated from culture. Scripture reminds Christian clients that the battle is not against...
317 | From Imagination to Incarnation: Being in the Room Where it Happens
Research in interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) currently reveals nine domains of integration that are developed and strengthened in the context of secure attachment. This integration process also correlates with a client’s awareness of and attunement to the mind’s full...