This course is designed to provide the student with an overview of Marriage and Family counseling with specific emphasis on system and Structural therapy techniques. A specific study of the use of genograms and family of origin work is emphasized. The course integrates Temperament and System/Structure in family counseling.

The course is designed for pastoral counseling of couples. The emphasis is on understanding the stress factors in a dyad relationship and the proper evaluation and therapy for the present problems of the couple. The student will review the case and provide a final evaluation of the case in written form as part of the study.

This course is a specific reference for the pastoral counselor and develops a pre-marriage technique using the tools of modern System Family counseling and Temperament Therapy. The course consists of four units. The course develops a specific six (6) week plan for pre-marriage counseling using the tools provided in the course.

Once a student understands the unique relationship between a father and daughter, it helps him/her understand all unique relationships. The content of this course provides insight into the father-daughter relationship that is being revealed for the first time with regards to each individual?s temperament.

Numerous case studies are provided to aid in the study of this course. Each case study is a real situation from the author?s repertoire. He furnishes the student with numerous charts and lists to aid in practical applications of more effective family counseling.

In order to effectively help children, a counselor must be equipped with an understanding of the basic principals of child development. The two authors provide instruction and encouragement to the Christian counselor who seeks to minister to the development, emotion, and spiritual needs of children.

This course is approximately 148 pages in length. The candidate will be provided with general information regarding insight into counseling today's youth. Dr. Lea addresses some of the major problems that face your today and how to overcome them.

The student will benefit from the authors thoughtful examples, theory mixed with practical directions, and biblical conclusions. The course is provided in short, easy to comprehend chapters that cover most situations that a counselor will encounter when helping a person who is searching for meaning in life.

The authors will provide answers to important questions about drugs and why people use them. Drug abuse is a complex problem and no one can claim to have all the answers. However, there are fundamental principals presented within this course which will aid the student in his/her preparation to counsel those who suffer addiction.

ACOA is a relatively new term but an age-old problem. This course provides information about the family background, personal characteristics and common problems which face the adult children of alcoholics.

The most important goal of this course is to show how the counselor can help people identify and resolve the root problems which are causing one?s inability to exercise self-control.

The student will discover that there are complicated interplay dynamics found in eating disorders. Some issues contain other issues which overlap and recur again. Some of the areas addressed in the course are Anorexia, Nervosa, and Bulimia.

The student will learn first hand a Christian approach to counseling his or her clients in a Bible based, methodical professional manner utilizing a counseling method taught by the N.C.C.A.

The purpose of this course is to prove the student with a better understanding of human behavior from a biblical perspective. The course also addresses man's responsibility for his actions and one's accountability to God.

Sexual therapy goals discussed in this course are to distract from anxiety, removal demand and eliminate the negative or failure experiences and feelings. Forms are provided to assist in sexual therapy counseling: Physical history, background history, sexual evaluation, sexual assessment feed-back, sexual therapy plan and assignments.

The author writes this course from a heart of compassion, love and a true Christian view point and includes numerous stories of his clients. The student will learn that change IS possible and that lives are transformed by miracles and by hard work. The challenge is to help the counselor keeps an open mind while he/she gains self-understanding and moves forward in new patterns of behavior.

This course is divided into three sections: 1) it explains how to conceptualize the problem and ways to help the family; 2) how to deal with pregnancies too early, i.e., teenage pregnancies, pregnancies before marriage and pregnancies too soon after another birth; 3) births that are too late or that never occur.

The author of this course writes from the perspective of a physician, a Christian and a counselor. The course is illustrated by frequent case histories and relevant biblical references. It builds on a creative counseling model and is written in language that is understandable. It will prepare the student with the skills needed to minister to the sick and terminally ill.

Proper methods of addressing the problem of anger are provided in this course. The student will also be provided with helps in understanding the factors of anger, the basis for counseling anger, and learn how to control and express anger.

This course is provided in a workbook format and is approximately 70 pages in length. The candidate will be provided with general information on how a Christian handles loss and how they can focus their grief upwards.

In this course the student will discover that it is difficult to define disability. Also, he/she will learn that it is hard to determine at what point a disability becomes a handicap. The focus is on families whose children developed problems before birth, during birth, as young children or as teenagers.

This course is technique oriented. The emphasis is on cognitive therapy methods rather then problems such as depression, marital conflicts, anger, etc. This course provides the student with some useful tools to make his/her counseling more effective.

The purpose of this course is to provide the student with information regarding ethical issues in counseling. It will also provide them with a clear understanding of the importance of confidentiality. In addition, this course will provide information regarding referrals, helpful agencies, and programs.

This course provides a refreshing approach to people-helping. The author has three goals and the course is presented with a clear, concise, and well-organized writing style. The information is highly accurate and proved carefully thought-out conclusion s with a careful use of Scripture. It avoids repetition and provides practical simplistic formulas with evidence as to why they work.

The student will learn the basic components of family violence. Also, the definition and history for each type of abuse is provided along with instructions for giving help to both victim and abuser. This course is divided into three sections: Spousal abuse, child abuse and elder abuse.

The dynamics of Scriptural view of crisis is presented by the authors—one a pastor, the other a professional counselor. The student will lean how to better understand the issues in a crisis situation as well as the principals that can help one face a crisis.

Therapeutic principals and a clear understanding of depression are will defined in this course. The student will receive the training needed to address the problems associated with depression.

This course contains three goals: 1) to provide the pastor and counselor (lay people can use this counseling approach to build their own self-esteem) with an understanding of self-esteem as a fundamental ingredient to one's spiritual, emotional and social health; 2) to teach accurate biblical views of self-esteem and 3) to teach counseling strategies that can be used for building self-esteem.