Contents

1 Introduction to Evidence-Based Practices in Christian Counseling and Psy-
chotherapy
Everett L. Worthington Jr., Eric L. Johnson, Joshua N. Hook and Jamie D. Aten

PART ONE: Evidence-Based General Psychotherapeutic Factors

2 Evidence-Based Relationship and Therapist Factors in Christian Counseling
and Psychotherapy
R. Scott Stegman, Sarah L. Kelly and T. Mark Harwood

3 Lay Christian Counseling for General Psychological Problems
Siang-Yang Tan

4 Christian Devotional Meditation for Anxiety
Fernando Garzon

Handout 1

Handout 2

PART TWO: Evidence-Based Approaches to Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Indi-
viduals

5 Christian-Accommodative Cognitive Therapy for Depression
David J. Jennings II, Don E. Davis, Joshua N. Hook and Everett L. Worthington
Jr.
6. Children and Adolescents
Donald F. Walker, Heather Lewis Quagliana, Morgan Wilkinson and Dana
Frederick

7 Evidence-Based Principles from Psychodynamic and Process-Experiential Psy-
chotherapies
Keith J. Edwards and Edward B. Davis

PART THREE: Evidence-Based Psychotherapeutic Treatments for Couples and
Groups

8 Preparing Couples for Marriage
Les Parrott and Leslie Parrott

9 Christian PREP: The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program
C. Gary Barnes and Scott M. Stanley

10 The Hope-Focused Couples Approach to Counseling and Enrichment
Jennifer S. Ripley, Vickey L. Maclin, Joshua N. Hook and Everett L. Worthington
Jr.

11 The Relational Conflict Restoration Model
James N. Sells

12 Marital Couples and Forgiveness Intervention
Frederick A. DiBlasio

13 Christian-Accommodative Group Interventions to Promote Forgiveness for Transgressions
Julia E. M. Kidwell and Nathaniel G. Wade

PART FOUR: Reflecting on Evidence-Based Treatments

14 Promising Evidence-Based Treatments
Everett L. Worthington Jr., Joshua N. Hook, Eric Johnson and Jamie D. Aten

15 Conducting Clinical Outcome Studies in Christian Counseling and Psy-
chotherapy
Joshua N. Hook, Everett L. Worthington Jr., Jamie D. Aten and Eric Johnson

16 Evidence-Based Practice in Light of the Christian Tradition(s)
Eric L. Johnson, Everett L. Worthington Jr., Joshua N. Hook and Jamie D. Aten

List of Contributors

Subject Index

Endorsement
About the Editors
Related Titles

Are Christian treatments as effective as secular treatments? What is the evidence to support its success? Christians engaged in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy and counseling are living in a unique moment. Over the last couple decades, these fields have grown more and more open to religious belief and religion-accommodative therapies. At the same time, Christian counselors and psychotherapists encounter pressure (for example, from insurance companies) to demonstrate that their accommodative therapies are as beneficial as secular therapies. This raises the need for evidence to support Christian practices and treatments. The essays gathered in this volume explore evidence-based Christian treatments, practices, factors and principles. The authors mine the relevant research and literature to update practicing psychotherapists, clinical researchers, students, teachers and educated laypersons about the efficacy of certain Christian-accommodative therapies. Topics covered in the book include:
devotional meditation
cognitive-behavior therapy
psychodynamic and process-experiential therapies
couples, marriage and family therapy
group intervention

The book concludes with a review of the evidence for the various treatments discussed in the chapters, a guide for conducting clinical trials that is essential reading for current or aspiring researchers, and reflections by the editors about the future of evidence-based Christian practices. As the editors say, "more research is necessary." To that end, this volume is a major contribution to a field of inquiry that, while still in its infancy, promises to have enormous implications for future work in Christian counseling and psychotherapy.