CRITIQUE ON ADAMS & BACKUS

Critique on Adams & Backus



Theory Critique on Comparing Adams to Backus & Chapian

Introduction

Counseling on Christianity plays a significant role in the lives of those that they counsel, i.e. their counselees. The counsels depend on their counselors to act as their guide and mentor to find happiness and satisfaction. Both Adams and Backus have placed a high emphasis on scripture, i.e. God's word to bring completeness and satisfaction in those individuals who seek Christian Counselors for help (Adams, 1986).

Critique view on Adam's Work

Adam didn't present a model for counseling. He suggested that change can only be accepted if it's towards God. The model offers a nice approach to understanding self-worth. It promotes the thought that our behaviors are be influenced by our negative thoughts and misbelieves about ourselves. This type of thinking hinders us from bringing God glory. He provided an interpretation which offered a single method from Christian and biblical context. He proposed theological presupposition that only Christians can utilize the framework which can offer a process for counseling the results in terms of acceptable change (Adams, 1986).

He said that “if it is a truth that is necessary to counseling, it will be found already in a purer form in the Bible” (p. 39). He didn't allow God's scriptures to be evaluated with a perception unrelated to the scriptures. He does not really seem to be favorable of truths found outside of biblical text, nor was he in favor of their incorporation into the counseling process. Dr. Adams states that people must first hear the gospel, believe, and then are saved. It may be that a therapeutic relationship of trust must be built before the counselor even has an opportunity to introduce the idea of a relationship with Christ. The counselor must accept that some people are able to adjust and live well as non-Christian persons. They may not end up going to Heaven (Backus, 2000).

His solution for a person's undisciplined and out of control sexual addictive behavior is to point them to the Bible verses that as a Christian and to remind them that they should be reading the Bible more and praying more. If neither of these approaches work, then the biblical counseling approach is to conclude that a person is one whom God has turned over to their own “degrading passions” and break fellowship with them (1 Corinthians 5:5). He offers ...