Interventions That Apply Scripture In Psychotherapy

The article for this journal review is Interventions that Apply Scripture in Psychotherapy authored by Garzon in 2005. It discusses ways in which Christian therapists can incorporate scriptures in counseling to create an effective spiritual healing on the clients by utilizing fictitious case study of a 30 year old man named “George”, to analyze various steps of the interventions. According to the writer the two main purposes of the journal are: first, to create awareness among the Christians therapists about the various scriptures integrated interventions available. Second, to induce creativity in the integration of Christianity and secular counselling which will lead to strategies development that incorporate the living word of God. These scripture
The religious background of both clients and therapists must be positive to avoid negative outcomes, it must be noted that integration of Biblical content in the psychotherapy is not suitable for all patients (Garzon, 2005). He utilizes the case study on” George” to explain various ways in which these interventions can be used to address clients’ behavioral and emotional issues. These Interventions are Implicit Scripture which includes praying for the clients out of session and sometimes quietly during the session. This requires the counselor’s spiritual life development and personal encounter with God and mostly used with explicit integration for Christian clients. Psychoeducational is also an intervention where the therapist may study the word of God with the clients to have a better understanding of the Holy Scriptures. Another intervention is Theoeducational, therapists carry out intervention using the word of God to assure the clients of God’s love no matter the magnitude of our