Siang-Yang Tan
Biography
Siang-Yang Tan wrote Counseling and Psychotherapy, and co-wrote Coping with Depression with John Carl Ortberg Jr.
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A Counselor's Guide to Christian Mindfulness
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“covering a comprehensive list of areas of application. Highly recommended to anyone interested in a Christian approach to mindfulness, including therapists, counselors, pastors, and clients.”
A Lifelong Love (Updated & Revised)
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Gary Thomas has written another deep and powerful book full of biblical wisdom and practical suggestions for a loving, lifelong marriage that is more than simply staying together, precisely because it is God-centered and empowered by the Holy Spirit. A must-read for every married couple!”
Christian Living
“Ruth Haley Barton, president, Transforming Center; author, Sacred Rhythms “Gary Moon’s Apprenticeship with Jesus is a well-written book with great stories, practical exercises, and special humor only Gary is capable of, plus deep biblical wisdom on learning to live like Jesus. I highly recommend it for everyone who wants to live as a true disciple of Christ.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Beyond the Clinical Hour by Sells, Trout, and Sells is a comprehensive and very helpful guide to how Christian mental health professionals can partner with churches to deal with the mental health crisis before us. It includes integration of Christian approaches to mental health and a biblical theology for the foundation of Christian care. It also emphasizes and covers in detail the topics of supervision, consultation, church development and evaluation, and the ethics and economics ofcare. Highly recommended!”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Caring for Our Shepherds is a clearly written and very helpful book on understanding and coping with burnout as a pastor. Frederick, Thai, and Dunbar provide practical ways of managing pastoral burnout, including spiritual disciplines and four Christian devotional meditation practices of lectio divina, the Jesus Prayer, centering prayer, and the examen. Highly recommended!”
Christian Meditation in Clinical Practice
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Christian Meditation in Clinical Practice by Joshua Knabb is a clearly written and substantial book on a distinctively Christian approach to mindful meditation based on Scripture and the writings of well-known Christian authors throughout church history. It contains very practical and helpful exercises in the practice of Christian meditation for repetitive negative thinking, impaired emotional clarity and distress intolerance, behavioral avoidance, perfectionism, and impaired mentalization, when associated with psychopathology, providing empirical support for the effectiveness of such Christian meditation interventions. A must-read for therapists, clients, researchers, and anyone interested in Christian meditation.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Companions in the Darkness by Diana Gruver is a well-written, deeply touching, and very helpful book that succinctly describes seven saints' struggles with depression and doubt: Martin Luther, Hannah Allen, David Brainerd, William Cowper, Charles Spurgeon, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King Jr. I highly recommend it as enlightening, edifying, and essential reading on depression.”
Counseling Couples in Conflict
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Counseling Couples in Conflict is a clearly written and helpful book based on a relational restoration model. I highly recommend it for pastors, Christian counselors and lay counselors who are involved in helping couples.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Counseling Techniques, edited by John C. Thomas, is an excellent and very useful compendium of clinical strategies, interventions, and techniques for Christian counselors in helping a wide variety of clients. There are eleven chapters on theory-based strategies, four on population-based strategies, and twelve on clinical issue-based strategies. I highly recommend this practical resource as must reading for Christian counselors and others involved in people-helping.”
Rev.
Christian Living
“Deeply Loved by Bill and Kristi Gaultiere is a well-written, biblically based, psychologically sound, and very helpful book on how to grow in empathy and compassion for yourself and others by receiving God’s empathy and love for you. Highly recommended!”
Developing Clinicians of Character
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Terri Watson’s Developing Clinicians of Character is a well written and substantial work on a Christian integrative approach to clinical supervision. It comprehensively and clearly covers faith, hope, love, practical wisdom, justice, temperance, courage, and personal and spiritual formation in counseling, psychology, and MFT education. I highly recommend it as essential reading in Christian clinical supervision.”
Discipling in a Multicultural World
Evangelism & Missions
“Ajith Fernando has written a very helpful, deep, mature, and biblical book on disciple making in real life from a multicultural perspective. He draws from his many years of ministry experience in preaching and teaching, evangelism, discipling, and mentoring, especially with Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka. I highly recommend Discipling in a Multicultural World as essential reading for all Christians!”
Christian Living
“Kelly Kapic's Embodied Hope is a well-written and tremendously helpful theological meditation on pain and suffering, with many examples of ongoing and long-term conditions, including his wife's chronic pain. It is full of biblical realism, acknowledging struggle, confusion, longing, and lament as human in a compassionate and humane way, centered in Christ and his incarnation, suffering, death, resurrection, ascension, and second coming. It also emphasizes the need for loving and prayerful support from one another in the body of Christ and faithfulness in loving God and others in the midst of such chronic pain and suffering. Highly recommended!”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Mark Yarhouse and James Sells have written a very helpful book that is comprehensive, biblically based and well-written. I highly recommend it as an excellent text for those interested in a Christian approach to family therapy.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Eric Johnson's Foundations for Soul Care is a fresh and substantial contribution to the development of a truly Christian Psychology, and to Christian counseling and soul-care. I highly recommend it as required reading!”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“God and Soul Care by Eric Johnson is another deep and substantial contribution to the further development of a truly Christian psychology and to Christian counseling and soul care. He describes the therapeutic resources of the Christian faith by clearly explicating the implications of fundamental biblical truths for Christian psychotherapy and counseling. I highly recommend this book as essential reading!”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Grace for the Children by Dr. Matthew Stanford is an excellent and comprehensive clinical guide for finding hope in the midst of child and adolescent mental illness. It covers autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, disruptive behavior disorders, depressive disorders, bipolar disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD and related disorders, and eating disorders. It also includes helpful spiritual and biblical perspectives. Highly recommended!”
Healing the Scars of Childhood Abuse
World Religions
“Healing the Scars of Childhood Abuse by Dr. Jantz is a clearly written book that will be of great help to those dealing with the long-term effects of childhood abuse and wanting to heal and move on to deeper wholeness. I highly recommend it!”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“This is a very important, substantial, and well-written book in the area of spiritual direction and formation. It clearly and helpfully describes and compares the spiritual guidance approaches of Ignatius of Loyola and John Calvin from the tri-perspective of history, theology, and method. Highly recommended as essential reading!”
Integrating Psychology and Faith
World Religions
“This is a brief, succinct, and well written introduction to the major models and worldviews for the integration of Christian faith and psychology. It covers philosophical foundations or worldviews related to natural science, human nature, contemporary psychology and religion, and models of integration in a helpful and clear way. Highly recommended!”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
A Christian Approach to Counseling and Psychotherapy
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
Christian Living
Church Leadership & Ministry
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