Counseling for the Soul in Distress: What Every Religious Counselor Should Know About Emotional and Mental Illness

This revised edition of Counselling for the Soul in Distress is a reader-friendly overview of the full range of adult psychiatric disorders. Updated with new information on genetics, brain scans, heredity, developmental concerns, new medications, and stress, it suggests ways for clergy to assist their congregants suffering from these illnesses and provides ethical guidance and clinical examples, often illustrating how physical disease can affect mental health. It also examines new short-term therapies like EMDR and ways to handle difficult personalities.