This book provides a forum for five major perspectives on the interface of Christianity and psychology to display their distinctions in a counseling context. Experts in each approach show how to assess, conceptualize, counsel and offer aftercare to a hypothetical client with a variety of complex issues.

Eric L. Johnson (PhD, Michigan State University) trained as an academic psychologist and is Lawrence and Charlotte Hoover Professor of Pastoral Care at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of Foundations for Soul Care and the coeditor of God Under Fire and Christianity and Psychology: Four Views. An associate editor of the Journal of Psychology and Theology, he is the director of the Society for Christian Psychology and the Institute for Christian Psychology.

Timothy A. Sisemore (Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) is director of research and professor of psychology and counseling at Richmont Graduate University in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and maintains a clinical practice at Richmont's CBI Counseling Center. He is the author of several books, the most recent being The Clinician's Guide to Exposure Therapies for Anxiety Spectrum Disorders.

Stephen P. Greggo (Psy.D., State University of New York, Albany) is professor of counseling at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is the author of Trekking Toward Wholeness, a licensed psychologist and a partner and consultant with Christian Counseling Associates in Delmar, New York.