METAMORPH: Integrated Christian Counseling Grid
METAMORPH Integrative Christian Counseling Grid
Dr. Guy R. Brewer
(All Scripture references are based on New International Version translation of the Bible.)
METAMORPH Integrative Christian Counseling Grid
Key Domains/Issues in Integrative Christian Counseling
Major Tenets/Counseling Theory
Biblical References
Spiritual Formation Principles
Techniques and/or Strategies
MIND
Related areas:
Cognition
Thinking
Reasoning/analytical skills
Imagination
Presuppositions
Discernment
Key Scripture:
Ephesians 4: 17,18
“You must no longer live as the gentiles do in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.”
Spiritual formation tradition:
Cognition, reasoning, and imagination are elements of human functioning that express the image of God. Counseling focuses on helping client become aware of habits of thought and the connection between self-deception, faulty thinking, and sin.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Identify cognitive distortions, faulty assumptions, and automatic negative self-talk.
Adlerian: Reeducation of faulty thinking, gain access to private logic.
Object Relations:
Identify details/history of representations that feed client’s perceptions, attachments, and desires.
Choice Theory: Help client become more aware and intentional about connection of thinking, actions, and self-perceptions.
Gestalt: Enhance client awareness of perceptions and thought processes in the here and now.
Proverbs 14:12: Self-deception and faulty thinking.
Proverbs 23:7: Determinative power of human thinking.
Isaiah 40:13, 14: Mind of God compared to human reasoning.
Romans 8:6-8 Conversion produces qualitatively different thinking, “spiritual mind.”
Romans 12:2: God uses transformation of thinking as an avenue to transform human life.
Loving God with our whole minds is the primary goal of
Dr. Guy R. Brewer
(All Scripture references are based on New International Version translation of the Bible.)
METAMORPH Integrative Christian Counseling Grid
Key Domains/Issues in Integrative Christian Counseling
Major Tenets/Counseling Theory
Biblical References
Spiritual Formation Principles
Techniques and/or Strategies
MIND
Related areas:
Cognition
Thinking
Reasoning/analytical skills
Imagination
Presuppositions
Discernment
Key Scripture:
Ephesians 4: 17,18
“You must no longer live as the gentiles do in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.”
Spiritual formation tradition:
Cognition, reasoning, and imagination are elements of human functioning that express the image of God. Counseling focuses on helping client become aware of habits of thought and the connection between self-deception, faulty thinking, and sin.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Identify cognitive distortions, faulty assumptions, and automatic negative self-talk.
Adlerian: Reeducation of faulty thinking, gain access to private logic.
Object Relations:
Identify details/history of representations that feed client’s perceptions, attachments, and desires.
Choice Theory: Help client become more aware and intentional about connection of thinking, actions, and self-perceptions.
Gestalt: Enhance client awareness of perceptions and thought processes in the here and now.
Proverbs 14:12: Self-deception and faulty thinking.
Proverbs 23:7: Determinative power of human thinking.
Isaiah 40:13, 14: Mind of God compared to human reasoning.
Romans 8:6-8 Conversion produces qualitatively different thinking, “spiritual mind.”
Romans 12:2: God uses transformation of thinking as an avenue to transform human life.
Loving God with our whole minds is the primary goal of