Christian Couple Counseling by Professional, Pastoral, and Lay Counselors from a Protestant Perspective: A Nationwide Survey

Authors: Hook, Joshua; Worthington, Everett

Source: American Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 37, Number 2, March 2009 , pp. 169-183(15)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

Couple counseling is widely practiced by Christian counselors, but there are almost no empirical data investigating it. The present study presents data from a national web-based survey of counselors from the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC). We describe the nature of Christian couple counseling, as well as counselors' religiousness and their attitudes toward integrating religion and spirituality into couple counseling. Christian couple counselors were highly religious and their personal religiosity affected their attitude toward incorporating religion in counseling. There were differences between professional, pastoral, and lay counselors suggesting that each be treated separately rather than be lumped generically as Christian couple counseling.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01926180802151760

Affiliations: 1: Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Publication date: 2009-03-01

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