by Jennifer Wortham, Dr.Ph. | Dec 3, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
Diagnosing and Treating Moral Injury in Christian Counseling Introduction Over the past decade, moral injury (MI) has increasingly emerged as a critical construct bridging psychology, theology, and pastoral care. Initially defined in military contexts, MI refers to...
by Daniel G. Amen, M.D. | Dec 2, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Understanding the Intersection Between Physical and Emotional Pain… and How to Heal Both The Hidden Intersection of Emotional and Physical Pain I met Sam just hours after he had tried to take his own life. Once a decorated police...
by Alan Weissenbacher | Dec 2, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today
The Willpower Trap Using Brain Plasticity to Change Thoughts and Behaviors At the residential rehabilitation facility where I formerly worked, we discovered a brain riddle. About 10-15% of those with an addiction would have a serious craving every 14 days, and only...
by Fernando Garzon, Psy.D. | Dec 2, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today, Research Digest
research digest Three New Insights on What the Brain is Teaching Us About Mental Health Studying the brain can increase our appreciation of God’s design and lead to holistic care that attends to body, soul, and spirit. In this Research Digest, we examine three studies...
by Gary W. Moon, M.Div., Ph.D. | Dec 1, 2025 | Christian Counseling Today, Reflections
reflections Is it Time to Give the Mind its Decade in the Sun? Have you ever noticed how modern psychology seems to have given each of the five aspects of the person—the only five things a person can do—about one decade in the sun? I began studying psychology in the...