Saturday, October 2, 2010

Dr. Stuart Scott's Comparison of Biblical and Secular Counseling

Depth

Psychology

Neo-Freudians

Behaviorism

Rational-Emotive Theory

LEADER

Freud

1890s

Adler

(Horney)

Skinner

1900s

Ellis

MAN

-Instinctual animal

-Id: drives

-Superego: outside influences

-Ego: what man thinks about himself

-Socially governed animal

-Conditioned animal

-Blank tablet

-Basically good

-Potential within

PROBLEM

-Conflict between

Id and Superego

-Born weak & small

-Feel inferior because of our limitations determined by age 5-6 years

-Environmental failure

-Victim of flawed irrational beliefs about themselves

-Rooted in childhood

-Man’s belief system is the cause

RESPONSIBILITY

-Not man’s

-Not man’s but society’s

-Not man’s (non-moral)

-Not man’s

VIEW OF MAN’S GUILT

-Result of imposed standards from others

-Mistakes in thinking and valuing

-Lack of confidence

-Not important (no evils)

-Crooked thinking: results in neurotic thinking and behaving

TREATMENT

-Actualize potential

-Strengthen the Ego

-Make the unconscious conscious

-Find source in insight & awareness

-Strive for superiority

-Control own fate

-Emphasize emotional health and importance of birth order

-Restructure environment

-Client – determines what they want

-Therapists – determines how it will be changed

-Eliminate self-defeating outlook on life

-Acquire a rational view of life

-Process of re-education

-Practice actively changing self-defeating behaviors

RESOLUTION OF MAN’S GUILT

-Cultural societal values and parents to blame

-Change thinking to feel better and behave better

-Change standard according to client’s “needs”

-Reorienting one’s thinking, judging, analyzing, doing, and re-deciding

COUNSELOR

-Expert

-Encourager

-Adapt to client’s “needs”

-Technician

-Teacher and educator

-Insight emphasized

PROBLEMS

-Unbiblical anthropology

-Promotes self-absorption, narcissism

-Victim mentality

-Unbiblical anthropology

-Victim mentality

-Pride

-Unbiblical anthropology

-Manipulates through rewards & punishments

-Ignores man as spiritual being

-Victim mentality

-Unbiblical identification of beliefs

-Substitution of therapist’s beliefs system rather than God’s Word for counselee’s belief system.

Third Force

Family Systems

Biblical

LEADER

Rogers

Ackerman

GOD

MAN

-Basically good

-Potential within

-Mature like a flower

-Product of flawed relationships in the family

-Created by God to glorify God

PROBLEM

-Environment hinders

-System is faulty; causality circular and multi-directional

-Individual is simply fulfilling a function within the system

-Fallen sinner by choice

RESPONSIBILITY

-Not man’s

-Not man’s

-Man’s

VIEW OF MAN’S GUILT

-Not important

-Non-pathological; simply problems in living

-Result of sin

-Real

TREATMENT

-Help him realize potential

-Solution within

-Focus on feeling

-System as a whole (key principle)

-Focus is on the function the believer serves and removing the need in order to allow the behavior to be unnecessary

-Alter how the various relationships are carried out

-Justification by faith

-Progressive sanctification

-Spirit and Word

-Focus on objective data

RESOLUTION OF MAN’S GUILT

-Take whatever steps necessary to achieve the goal of being comfortable with oneself

-Change family relationships by differention of individual selves; the more “differentiated” the better adjusted

-Reconstructive family organization

-Change dysfunctional transactional patterns

-Deal with sin

-Deal with trials

-Deal with response

COUNSELOR

-Mirror

-Mental health expert and cultural healer

-Alters how the various relationships are carried out

-Biblical Discipler/Counselor

PROBLEMS

-Unbiblical anthropology

-Solution is within rather than in Christ

-Victim mentality

-Unbiblical anthropology

-Promotes irresponsibility and self-focus

-Victim mentality

-NONE that can’t be overcome by God, His Word, and His obedient children

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