AS CHRISTIAN COUNSELING IS drawn into greater intimacy and service to the Church, pastoral counseling and lay helping ministry is mushrooming. This is a wonderful development, and goes far toward fulfilling the promise of Christian counseling in the 21st century.2 We recommend that churches everywhere adopt Pastor Clemmons’ three-part policy above as the practical framework for the conduct of churchbased counseling. However, with the explosion in church-based counseling of all...

Serotonin and depression have been directly linked in numerous medical studies. The symptoms of depression are triggered by an imbalance in brain chemistry when neurotransmitters such as serotonin and hormones and other chemicals are unevenly distributed. Fortunately, there are now 100% natural treatment options available which can help balance brain chemistry and relieve symptoms.

So how do serotonin levels affect brain function? As a key neurotransmitter, serotonin helps to...

Serotonin imbalance has been identified as one of the main underlying causes of depression and other emotional disorders. Because the balance of neurotransmitters such as serotonin and hormones and other chemicals is so delicate, even the slightest disruption can cause a host of emotional and physical symptoms. This is why homeopaths have developed natural remedies to directly address the balance of chemicals in the brain.

Like any other neurotransmitter, serotonin helps to...

Emotional stability is the key to functioning normally in our society. When brain function is disrupted, it can lead to rapid emotional changes which can leave an individual feeling depressed, irritable and disjointed. In the past, doctors have turned to a combination of therapy and prescription drugs to battle these symptoms but now the options for treatment are more wide ranging than ever, which is good news for those who experience these troubling symptoms.

Understanding...

There's very little in this world that is as frightening and uncomfortable as anxiety attacks.  Once they start, panic attacks can send you spiralling out of control.

Many people who suffer from panic attacks already have several treatment options that they are using.

You may have a serious episode and be unable to get an appointment with your therapist or doctor right away.

You may not be able to afford to seek medical treatment at the...

COUNSELORS, THERAPISTS AND those in the helping professions are often thought of as being compassionate people. Indeed, many who feel called into the profession readily identify with the compassion of Christ as He related to people. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary de- fines the term compassion as a “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress, together with a desire to alleviate it.” For Frost (1999), it is a much broader concept than sympathy...

At the top of Mt. Sinai, as the earth shook and fire blazed in deference to the Almighty, God didn’t instruct Moses to go down the mountain and conduct an opinion poll regarding the people’s views on Sabbath, adultery, murder, and how they ought to treat their parents. Neither did Jesus conduct a systematic program evaluation to see if having entrepreneurs in the temple was distracting to people trying to pray. Instead, he made a whip and drove out the merchants. God...

Parent and Teen Views of Assent in ResearchBrody, J. l., Sherer, D. G., Annett, R. D., & Pearson-bish, m. (2003). Voluntary assent in biomedical research with adolescents: A comparison of parent and adolescent views. Ethics & Behavior, 13 (1), 79-95. Janet Brody and her colleagues at the University of New Mexico studied parent and adolescent views of assent to biomedical research. The research setting was an outpatient hospital clinic with teens who had been diagnosed...

To make people less miserable, or as he put it, to bring people from minus five to zero. We can do better than that, he said. Lets work to promote strengths, to make people happier, to bring people up from zero to plus five. In his 2002 book, Authentic Happiness, he suggested that there are three components of happiness: pleasure, doing what makes you feel good; engagement, satisfying involvement with people, work, and hobbies; and meaning, devoting your old_resources to a purpose...

Ethical behavior: actions conforming to moral standards. The Bible reveals it like this: “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of God our Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world” (James 1:27) and “… to the extent that you did it to the least of them, you did it to Me” (Matthew 25:40). I have just put down a profoundly disturbing book by Victor Malarek, The Natashas:...