How is Biblical Counseling different than other types of counseling?
MONDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2005 There are three general categories of counseling. • Traditional psychological counseling • Integrated counseling • Biblical counseling Traditional psychological counselors make an earnest attempt to help hurting people find wholeness as they use over 200 different, sometimes conflicting, psychological approaches for diagnosis and treatment. Psychological counselors will select from Frued, Jung and Adler’s differing approach to Psychoanalysis, Skinner’s Behavioral Modification, Rogerian Reflection, Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs, etc., or even mix and match differing psychological approaches as they attempt to assist those in need. It is important to note, however, not only were these well-known psychologists and psychiatrists not Christians, but in many cases their moral foundations and approach to the human condition were the antithisis of Biblical thinking. Integrated counseling attempts to integrate Christian principles into the plethora of psychological approa
