Interventions that Apply Scripture in Psychotherapy

Interventions that Apply Scripture in Psychotherapy

Summary

The article that has been chosen for this paper is Interventions that Apply Scripture in Psychotherapy authored by Garzon. Christian therapists make use of scriptures to create spiritual healing affects. The article aims at studying the integration of scriptures by Christian psychotherapists as a means of assorted intervention. In view of the writer, there are two main reasons for writing the article. Firstly, he wanted to increase the awareness among Christian therapists who do not know that there are many types of Scripture interventions and each can be used in a different way. Secondly, he wanted to boast creativity among Christian therapists inspired by divinity so that new strategies of psychotherapy may be developed in order to incorporate the true Word of God (Garzon, 2005).

He uses the example of George as a case study; the writer explains the six interventions of scripture psychotherapy. All these strategies can be combined with the Word of God in different ways and each one has a unique way of effect on any given patient.

The writer argues that there are cultural, ethical as well as assessment issues related to each patient which must be studied in detail before designating a particular strategy of psychotherapy that must be used with the scripture. It must be noted that integration of Biblical content in the psychotherapy is not suitable for all patient (Garzon, 2005). Hence, the social as well as religious background of the patient must be kept in mind. In addition, the values of the therapist are also included in the assessment criteria to determine the suitability of integrating scriptures. The efficacy of treatments that have scriptures employed in them is visible from the progress that has been made by people like George.

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