RT Article
T1 Redeeming Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Christian Analysis of Its Worldview, Epistemology, and Emphasis
JF Religions
VO 5
IS 1
SP 323
OP 333
A1 Hardin, Todd
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1745009817
AB While emotion-focused therapy (EFT) offers clinically useful information to Christian practitioners, its underlying worldview, epistemology, and emphasis present challenges for Christian therapists. This article advocates that Christian practitioners can redeem EFT for Christ by evaluating and translating these presuppositions in light of Christian alternatives. In offering these alternatives, the article encourages the creation of a distinctively Christian emotion-focused therapy (CEFT).
K1 Christian psychology
K1 counseling methodology
K1 emotion-focused therapy
DO 10.3390/rel5010323