Research on the Efficacy of Christian Counseling
As a Christian counselor, I want to believe that treating my patients Christianly makes a difference relative to treating them as I might in a strictly secular counseling environment. It feels wonderful when I connect and patients leap forward in their mental health and spiritual formation. However, as a hard-nosed scientist, I also know that cognitive psychology (not cognitive therapy, but the experimental field of cognitive psychology) tells us how prone we are to distort our own beliefs, especially in self-serving ways.
