Using Prayer and Scripture in Counseling
The online lectures suggested some “cautions” or possible negative impacts when using prayer and Scripture in counseling. The importance of those cautions may be better understood in seeking to apply prayer and scripture with a client. Read the case study below and respond to the following:
1. What would you consider the most therapeutic use of prayer with this client? Why?
2. What would you consider to be the most therapeutic use of Scripture with this client? Why?
3. As you consider the integration of psychology and theology, discuss how you would integrate theology into this case. What aspects from psychology would you bring into this case?
4. How do your responses to the first two questions mesh with your response to the third? Do they integrate?