Everett L. Worthington, Jr.

10 Choices Successful Couples Make

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“In 10 Choices Successful Couples Make: The Secret to Love That Lasts a Lifetime, Dr. Ron Welch has zeroed in on some of the most basic areas in preventing (and healing) fractured couple relationships and heightening couple flourishing. All ten choices are spot-on, but I was particularly impressed by his emphases on forgiving, trusting, being other-oriented, maintaining intimacy, and committing. This book will repay any couple’s reading in years of stronger relationship satisfaction and enjoyment.”

A Christian Approach to Counseling and Psychotherapy

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Siang-Yang Tan is one of my heroes of the faith. He is primarily a devoted lover of Jesus who happens to be a committed psychologist among his other roles as pastor, teacher, mentor, speaker, and researcher. His love, faith, humanity, and wisdom are evident in this brief book about counseling, the Holy Spirit, and how they fit hand in glove. This is an up-to-the-minute primer on his faith and thinking.”

Bonding with God

World Religions

“Bonding with God is an inspiring, intriguing, and intellectually inventive advance on Kirkpatrick’s and Granqvist’s takes on attachment to God. Victor Counted grounds his guidance to students and lifelong learners of psychology, to people in the pew, and to religious seekers and strugglers in caregiving faith that sees God as a loving caregiver and inspires us to be caregivers also. The thought is generative, and the stories are engaging. It speaks to people secure in their faith, the religious ‘dones’ (those struggling to disaffiliate from religion), and the religious ‘nones’ as well. It’s both a helpful and an exciting read.”

Christian Meditation in Clinical Practice

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Mindfulness meditation is the current psychological bandwagon. But can it be Christian-compatible? Absolutely, argues Josh Knabb in Christian Meditation in Clinical Practice. It is a transdiagnostic treatment approach for people with one or several overlapping psychological struggles. Thoughtful. Practical. Hop on the bandwagon for an interesting and helpful ride.”

Developing Clinicians of Character

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“This fantastic new textbook on supervision is a huge, transforming step forward in supervisory practice. Going beyond core competencies in counseling, care for the client, and conscientious monitoring of counseling, Terri Watson adds character formation to the supervision mix. The result is a thoughtful, scholarly, creative, innovative, practical, and completely Christian integrative model of virtues in counseling. If you supervise or teach psychotherapy or MFT, read this book and catch thetransformation of the field.”

Embodying Integration

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Embodying Integration is, bar none, the most exciting innovation in integration since the pioneer days, fifty years ago. Instead of creating tightly reasoned relationships between psychology and theology, Megan Anna Neff and Mark R. McMinn have an extended daughter-father conversation. And that conversation transforms integration into a living, embodied, conversational quest for wisdom and connection—between psychotherapists and patients, among professionals, and between ourselves and God. This book will be the new standard textbook for integration courses.”

Enhancing Christian Life

Science & Faith

“Want to be a more Christian Christian? Read this book and put its lessons into practice within your church and family. Brad D. Strawn and Warren S. Brown, in Enhancing Christian Life, have caught a new, transformative way of understanding Christian formation. They base Christian formation on modern cognitive psychology that recognizes how intertwined relationships are with our embodied life. What they contribute is a thorough description of the Christian implications of this relational approach for the church and Christian relationships. Their book will make you want to engage more with the church. By doing so, both you and the church will be blessed.”

Family Therapies

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Yarhouse and Sells have created a masterpiece work analyzing approaches to family therapies. This is going to be a new classic, matching the accomplishment of Jones and Butman's analysis of psychotherapies in their book, Modern Psychotherapies.”

Freedom to Heal

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“We each are much more than the worst thing that ever happened to us. Schultz, Estabrook, and Dell have applied this truth to childhood sexual abuse. Yes, people accept that they have been victimized. And they also practice leaning into the ands: and God has redeemed their suffering, and they are attached to God, and they have the possibility of forgiving and experiencing post-traumatic growth. The stories, examples, and clinical interventions of this book make it come alive. A well-rounded approach to treatment!”

Grieving a Suicide

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“In Grieving a Suicide, Al Hsu has done what few can do. He has created a thoughtful, empathic, spiritually ennobling and practically helpful account of his response to the loss of his father by suicide. Al's journey shows how suffering, when we know the Lord, can mature us. I started merely to scan the book just before leaving for a trip, and drawn into the narrative, I read it straight through by the time my flight was finished. Wow!”

Integrative Psychotherapy

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“McMinn and Campbell bring over fifty collective years of psychological, psychotherapeutic and Christian experience to bear on Christian psychotherapy. It was worth the wait! Drawing on the best clinical science, Integrative Psychotherapy is perhaps the closest to a comprehensive Christian approach that has yet been written. This compassionate psychotherapy will surely become a classic.”

Lovingkindness

Christian Living

“Lovingkindness provides a nexus where major religions and scientific psychology intersect. William R. Miller, one of our most prolific and generative psychologists, explores calling, human nature, and an arc toward a positive existence. He sees lovingkindness as a choice humans can make. He goes beyond advocating it as an attitude and describes practical ways we each can choose to be more loving. This book will make you think, but it will also empower you to act as a more responsibly loving person.”

Modern Psychotherapies

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“The thinking is keen, the writing is clear, and the communication is superb. This is a work that truly integrates psychology and theology.”

Positive Psychology in Christian Perspective

Science & Faith

“Charles Hackney offers a Christian view of second-wave positive psychology. For the reader who wants to put a Christian understanding of positive psychology in historical, theological, philosophical, and psychological perspective, this is the definitive book.”

Psychology

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“This book takes you on a wild ride as it surveys topics including genetics, free will, positive psychology, and the psychology of religion within an evangelical Christian framework. Fascinated, I read this in one sitting. It is a wonderful, summative, yet critical introduction to thinking Christianly about psychology.”

Reconcilable Differences

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Dr. Toddy Holeman is the reigning authority on reconciliation. In Reconcilable Differences she blends biblical and theological truth and psychological truth into a practical book that helps people reconcile. Commitment and transformation are the keys to reconciling differences. Commit to reading the book, and it could transform your relationship.”

Relational Spirituality

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Relational Spirituality is a refreshing and generative antidote to today's privatized view of spirituality and polarized world of religion, politics, and race. With many years of psychotherapy practice under their belts and decades of experience in the classroom and the church, Todd Hall and Elizabeth Hall provide a theological and psychological GPS for the thoughtful reader's journey for navigating the third decade of the twenty-first century.”

Social Psychology in Christian Perspective

Science & Faith

“Angela M. Sabates has written a wonderful text aptly entitled Social Psychology in Christian Perspective. She fairly describes current approaches to social psychology yet she consistently critiques them through a Christian lens, respecting both empirical and theological methods. This will help students not only understand the fascinating subfield of social psychology, but it will also develop their critical reasoning abilities, helping them become Christians who can think like psychological scientists. This is a great text for any explicitly Christian college.”

The Controlling Husband

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“In The Controlling Husband: What Every Woman Needs to Know, Ron Welch is a great diagnostician. He describes problems that will have many couples saying, “Yes, yes, that’s us!” But where he shines is in his tried-and-true solutions in breaking the bonds of the controlling husband. His solutions—praising, finding hope in, forgiving, and serving each other—will create real mutuality in the one flesh of marriage. Highly recommended.”

The Energy of Forgiveness

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Mark Umbreit, Jennifer Blevins, and Ted Lewis draw on decades of observing restorative dialogues and identify a paradox: the more people feel pressured to forgive, the less likely they will forgive. When people are inclined toward forgiving, the less said about it, the better. That can--for those people--create authentic forgiveness, a release of toxic energy. This is an important personal book of personal stories with a fresh perspective on forgiveness within restorative dialogues.”