James Sells

Showing all 4 resultsSorted by latest

• 

  Ministering To Families In Crisis

  $55.00

  A Guide for Ministry Leaders to Provide Mental Health First Aid

  When people encounter a crisis, they often turn to ministry leaders, who may feel unprepared to guide them. Families face a multitude of challenges, from depression and anxiety to relational conflict to trauma and abuse. Providing the right resources and tools to help church members navigate their journeys is a solid starting place for every pastor and ministry leader.

  Ministering to Families in Crisis provides leaders with an essential shelf reference for supporting your community’s mental and emotional health. In each chapter, Christian leaders with unique expertise address common ministry challenges, providing evidence-based insights and practical suggestions. The book covers a full range of topics affecting families, marriages, children, and teens-including mental illness, LGBTQ+ issues, divorce, disability, poverty, racial trauma, and technology use. Contributors guide leaders on how to provide care and when to offer referrals.

  Whatever members’ background or experience, the church is a spiritual family that God designed to contribute to their formation and sense of belonging. This book gives ministers the tools and encouragement they need to help family members find hope amid the storms of life.

  Add to cart
• 

  Beyond The Clinical Hour

  $28.00

  The global mental health crisis is growing faster than our existing mental health care system can address. To meet the scope of human need, we need new models of care. The good news is that there is an institution uniquely positioned with the resources and the heart to help: the church.

  Psychologists James Sells and Amy Trout and journalist Heather Sells know firsthand the urgency of the situation-but they have also witnessed creative partnerships between churches and mental health professionals springing up across the United States. In this book, they call clinicians, students, and educators to collaborate with churches and lay leaders to envision and then create innovative solutions in their own communities.

  Challenging the dominance of the traditional “clinical hour” as a one-size-has-to-fit-all model, Sells, Trout, and Sells give concrete guidance on how mental health professionals can work with churches to provide consultation, train lay leaders, and develop and evaluate programs to expand a continuum of care. They also explore the skills, theological foundations, and research-based knowledge that both Christian counselors and church leaders need to integrate their spheres of expertise.

  Both a call to action and an encouraging roadmap, this book charts the way forward for combining the science of the mental health discipline with the service of Christian ministry.

  Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) Books explore how Christianity relates to mental health and behavioral sciences including psychology, counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy in order to equip Christian clinicians to support the well-being of their clients.

  Add to cart
• 

  Family Therapies : A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal (Revised)

  $60.00

  Preface
  Part 1: Foundational Considerations
  1. A Christian Understanding For Family Therapy
  2. Historical Foundations Of Family Therapy

  Part 2: Models Of Family Therapy
  3. Bowenian Family Therapy
  4. Strategic Family Therapy
  5. Structural Family Therapy
  6. Psychodynamic Family Therapy
  7. Contextual Family Therapy
  8. Experiential Family Therapy
  9.. Solution-Focused Family Therapy
  10. Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy
  11. Narrative Family Therapy
  12. Toward An Integrative Christian Family Therapy

  Part 3: Integration Of Family Theory With Critical Issues In Psychotherapy
  13. Crisis And Trauma
  14. Attending To Marital Conflict
  15. Separation, Divorce And Remarriage
  16. Individual Psychopathology
  17. Substance Abuse
  18. Gender, Culture, Economic Class And Race
  19. Sexual Identity

  Part 4: Casting A Vision
  20. Casting A Vision For Christian Family Therapy
  Author Index
  Subject Index

  Additional Info
  Christian therapists doing family therapy have never had a resource to help them navigate the various family therapy theories from a Christian perspective–until now. In this book Mark A. Yarhouse and James N. Sells survey the major approaches to family therapy and treat, within a Christian framework, significant psychotherapeutic issues. The wide array of issues covered includes crisis and traumamarital conflictseparation, divorce and blended familiesindividual psychopathologysubstance abuse and addictionsgender, culture, economic class and racesexual identity Calling for an integrated approach of “responsible eclecticism,” they conclude with a vision for Christian family therapy. A landmark work providing critical Christian engagement with existing models of family therapy, this volume was written for those studying counseling, social work, psychology or family therapy. Family Therapies will also serve as an indispensable resource for those in the mental health professions, including counselors, psychologists, family therapists, social workers and pastors.

  Add to cart
• 

  Counseling Couples In Conflict

  $40.99

  Most therapeutic approaches, especially those of a cognitive orientation, are not very effective in dealing with high conflict relationships–couples often heading toward divorce by the time they seek help. Counseling Couples in Conflict is a resource for counselors and therapists who want to be ready for these uniquely difficult cases. Utilizing a relational conflict and restoration model Mark Yarhouse and James Sells point the way beyond the cycle of pain towards marital healing.

  Add to cart