Biblical Counselling and Human Physiology
PC027-712/812/912
EVERY SEMESTER
Lecturer
Mike Emlet (lectures recorded at PTC), Karl Hood (tutor)
Is this unit for you?
This unit contributes to enhancing your professional and vocational formation by developing understanding of the theory and approaches to biblical counselling with special reference to pastoral ministry to people who manifest symptoms of physiological disorders.
What you will learn
You will look at theoretical issues in pastoral counselling in relation to physiological disorders, and then consider practical application in several of the topics listed below in the unit contents.
UNIT CONTENT
Section A: Theory
- Pastoral Counselling and Physiological disorders
- Biblical Anthropology and its counselling implications
Section B: Practice and Case Study
- Chronic Pain & Brain anatomy
- Psychopharmacology: Case study
- Biblical Psychiatry & Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Trauma and the Body
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Strategies for overcoming obsessive–compulsive disorder
- Brain on drug
- Menopause
- Demon Possession and Oppression.
Delivery
- Online recordings
- Essays and assignments
KEY TEXTS
Michael R. Emlet, Cross Talk: Where Life and Scriptures Meet (Greensboro: New Growth Press, 2009).