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Counseling used with Leadership:

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Lay counseling training curriculum, for Christian ministry spiritual care

Series:  Biblical Counseling Training for Lay Counselors

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Counseling for ministry mistreatment:

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Christian help and guide e-book (free download) for parenting a troubled child or teenager and how to deal with their serious mental problems and spiritual disinterest, using a ministering and lay counseling approach

E-book (full-text) - Children Of Fire: How to Effect Positive Lasting Change in Your Troubled Youth

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A list of common counseling topics and sin stronghold topics:
For each topic, there are listed several Bible references that can be applied in counseling that particular topic.  This list can be used as a printout that you can carry in the back of your Bible for quick reference.

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Troubled Marriage:

For a wife who is experiencing misery from her unbelieving husband, God has delineated a specific solution approach for her to use in how she should respond to her husband.  See and study the information in the following link for the Bible lesson for 1 Peter 3:1-6.
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Psychological / Medical Conditions:

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Dissociation:

This disorder is primarily characterized by having a split personality, in which splitting or dividing of the personality and mental functioning into compartments called ‘alternate identities’ occurs when the person is severely abused during childhood years. Usually, dissociative persons and people around them are unaware that their personality is compartmentalized (or dissociated).

In order to assist you in evaluating the possible presence of dissociation in a person (if no such diagnosis has ever been made by a mental health professional), the following is a list of typical characteristics and behaviors that a dissociative person may display:

- - In public, the person appears normal and is able to blend in to conform to most kinds of social environments that he/she desperately wants to fit in to (like a chameleon). But in private when details of the person’s thinking and behaviors are exposed, it is obvious the person has major problems functioning and adapting socially. 

- - The person has ‘mood’ swings, which are usually minimally fairly intense. Each mood will have its own distinct perspective that has a specific theme. The person seems to at times readily switch or flip between moods. Some examples of moods that may indicate dissociation are: Accuser, I-Hate-The-World, Exaggerator, Sexually Needy, Sexually Deviant, Pessimistic Fatalist, Rage, Threatener, Intimidator, Demander, Manipulator, Blamer, Antagonizer, Arguer, I-Want-To-Fight, Controller, Profuse Liar, Profuse Cussor, Giddy, Unfair, Strife, Hopelessness, I-Am-King/Queen/God, Depression, Anxiety, Masquerader, Rebellion, Revenge, Seclusion, Harm Self, Destroyer, or Narcissist.

- - At times, the person appears mentally pathetic, or irrational, or illogical.

- - The person has memory gaps or unreasonable chronic forgetfulness.

- - The person easily and immediately explodes into a fit of intense rage, which can last days, weeks, or even months.

- - The person has a love/hate relationship with parents or spouse.

- - The person exhibits significant difficulties holding a job or maintaining a marriage.

- - The person experiences vivid traumatic nightmares or memories.

- - The person is mentally unstable or has a history of being in and out of psychiatric hospitals.

During my years of counseling, I have found that every dissociative patient I extensively counseled had endured major trauma from witchcraft abuse, witchcraft torture, or witchcraft ritual ceremonies. Some of them initially had some access to memories of their past witchcraft abuse and some of them initially had blockages that prevented access to their memories of past witchcraft abuse.

Through Biblical counseling of this disorder, amazing results have been accomplished in achieving permanent integration of the counseled personality compartments, psychological healing of past abuse, neutralization of recurring trauma from corresponding vivid memories, removal of connected co-occurring disorders, spiritual cleansing, and spiritual sanctification.

(doctorate) Research Thesis: Treatment For Dissociation - An effective biblical counseling-based treatment approach for dissociation (split personality) in residential treatment group home adolescent girls

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Angelman Syndrome:

The condition known as 'Angelman Syndrome' may have a significant spiritual problem at its core, which Biblical counseling would prove to be successful in facilitating healing for.  In the following Bible passages, there are profound similarities and possible indications that a direct link can exist between the medical symptoms of Angelman Syndrome as featured below, and significant spiritual problems: 

- - Matthew 17:14-20 NIV - seizures, suffering, and falling into harm (inability to adequately or consistently control movement and balance)
- - Matthew 9:32-34 NIV - cannot speak
- - Matthew 12:22 NIV - blind (eye problems)
- - Luke 6:17-18 NIV - troubled (probably physical ailments and/or mental agitation, could include sleep problems)
- - Luke 9:37-42 NIV - suddenly screams, falls to the ground, and then convulsion (or violent muscle contractions), foams at the mouth; it scarcely ever leaves (is frequent and ongoing), and is destroying the person

Spiritual problems require spiritual solutions.

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Autism:

The condition known as 'Autism' has characteristics that are very similar to or coincide with some of the symptoms listed in the Scripture verses above (for Angelman Syndrome).  Again, biblical counseling is the only counseling approach that has the ability to cure this condition because it can successfully and effectively access the power of God to heal the root spiritual causes of this condition.

                    What's New:

__________ November, 2024 _________

- - New 'Sermon or Lesson Outline' documents have been added for the Book of 1 Peter.

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- - A new 'Ministry Tips' document, entitled "The Walking Wounded", has been added to the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.

- - The 'Ministry Tips' topic about 'Church-planting:  Failure Dynamics', has been substantially amended and is located near the bottom of the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.

- - The new 'sermon or lesson' series, entitled " Pursue Wisdom ", is now complete and located near the middle of the "Topical" web-page.

___________ August, 2024 __________

- - A new ' Ministry Tips ' document, entitled "Precautions For New Workers And Leaders In Ministry", has been added to the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page.

_________ September, 2023 _________

- - A new counseling document, entitled "Recovering From Ministerial Abuse, Assault, Murder", has been added to this "Counseling" web-page.

__________ August, 2023 __________

- - A new session document, entitled "Session 00 - Overview", has been added to the "Biblical Counseling Training Series for Lay Counselors", which is located near the top of this "Counseling" web-page.

___________ June, 2023 ___________

- - The new "Elder Training Series" is located near the top of the "Home Page - Ministry" web-page and contains important and useful training for anyone who leads a ministry.