Modern Psychotherapies

First Christians feared and avoided the modern practice of psychotherapy. Then many uncritically embraced it. This book represents an emerging third stage in the complicated relationship between faith and psychology. That stage is the critical, theologically informed appropriation of psychotherapy.Stanton Jones and Richard Butman, respected Christian scholars and experienced clinical psychologists, survey the thirteen most significant psychotherapies now in use. They fair-mindedly introduce each therapy and evaluate its compatibility with orthodox Christianity. Opening and closing chapters discuss foundational concerns on the intergration of psychology and theology, and present the author's justification of "responsible eclecticism."Among the first of its kind, this comprehensive volume will be of invaluable assistance to teachers, students of psychology, and Christian psychologists and counselors.

Stanton L. Jones is provost and professor of psychology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. During his tenure as chair of the psychology department (1984-1996), he led the development of Wheaton's Doctor of Psychology program in clinical psychology. He received his B.S. in psychology from Texas A M University in 1976, and his M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees in clinical psychology from Arizona State University. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and served onthe Council of Representatives, the central governing body of the APA, representing the Psychology of Religion division from 1999 to 2001. In 1994 he was named a Research Fellow of the Evangelical Scholars Program of the Pew Foundation. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Divinity School of the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, for the 1995-1996 academic year. Jones authored the lead article, "Religion and Psychology," for the Encyclopedia ofPsychology, jointly published in 2000 by the American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press. His article in the March 1994 American Psychologist, titled "A Constructive Relationship for Religion with the Science and Profession of Psychology: Perhaps the Best Model Yet," was a call for greater respect for and cooperation with religion by secular psychologists. Jones has also written, with his wife, Brenna, a five-book series on sex education in the Christian family called God's Design for Sex. He is also the coauthor of Modern Psychotherapies (with Richard E. Butman) and Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate (with Mark A. Yarhouse) and editor of Psychology and Christianity: Four Views. He has published many other professional and popular articles and chapters. Richard E. Butman (PhD, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology) is a licensed clinical psychologist and professor of psychology emeritus at Wheaton College.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Integration of Psychology and Christianity
Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman
2. A Christian View of Persons
Stanton L. Jones, Laura Miguélez and Richard E. Butman
The Psychodynamic Psychologies
3. Classical Psychoanalysis
Stanton L. Jones, Robert Watson and Richard E. Butman
4. Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
Michael W. Mangis, Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman
The Cognitive and Behavioral Psychologies
5. Behavior Therapy
Stanton L.Jones, Kelly Flanagan and Richard E. Butman
6. Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
Mark R. McMinn, Stanton L. Jones, Michael J. Vogel and Richard E. Butman
The Humanistic and Experiential Psychologies
7. Person-Centered Therapy
Terri Watson, Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman
8. Experiential Therapies
Terri Watson, Tracey Lee, Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman
The Systemic Psychologies
9. Family Systems Theory and Therapy
David Van Dyke, Stanton L. Jones and Richard E. Butman
10. Community Psychology and Preventative Intervention Strategies
Sally Schwer Canning
Toward Christian Psychologies
11. Responsible Eclecticism and the Challenges of Contemporary Practice
Richard E. Butman and Stanton L. Jones
12. Christian Psychotherapy and the Person of the Christian Psychotherapist
Richard E. Butman and Stanton L. Jones
Author Index
Subject Index