Christ-Centered Therapy

Christ-Centered Therapy: Empowering the Self brings together Christian faith with the Internal Family System (IFS) model. This powerful therapeutic model posits a self surrounded by subpersonalities who carry anger, fear, distrust, and other negative responses. This book provides exercises and visual aids to help both client and counselor, including worksheets, a "parts map" for client and counselor to use collaboratively, case studies, and a clinical outline listing the interventions in sequence. Christ-Centered Therapy: Empowering the Self is essential for Christian counselors and for non-Christian counselors who are seeking more effective ways to treat Christian clients. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: The Need for a Breakthrough: A Personal Note

1

(2)

A New Model of Personality and Treatment

3

(1)

Application of IFS in a Christ-Centered Context

4

(3)

Those Who Will Find This Book Helpful

7

(1)

An Invitation to a Journey of Discovery

7

(1)

Contents and Organization

8

(1)

Exercise: Beginning the Personal Application

9

(2)

SECTION I: THE INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEM MODEL

11

(42)

Basic Internal Family System Concepts

13

(16)

Multiplicity and Systems: Two Foundational Concepts of IFS

13

(1)

Viewing the Individual As a System: The Second Concept

14

(2)

Characteristics of Parts and Self in the Internal System

16

(3)

The Three-Group System of Parts

19

(3)

Parts Stuck in Extreme States

22

(2)

Chapter Summary

24

(1)

Exercise: Seeking Your Internal Family System

25

(4)

IFS Therapy: Changing the Internal System

29

(24)

Raymond: A Case Study of Changing the Internal System

29

(1)

Introducing the IFS Model

30

(1)

Getting to Know the Territory

31

(2)

Entering the Client's System

33

(2)

Depolarizing Part

35

(1)

Identifying Chains that Bind the Parts

35

(1)

Releasing the Chains by Unburdening and Retrieving a Part from the Past

36

(11)

Clinical Outline for Working with Individuals

47

(3)

Exercise: Get to Know a Part

50

(3)

SECTION II: THE CHRIST-CENTERED IFS MODEL

53

(70)

Christ-Centered IFS Concepts

55

(24)

CCIFS, an Extension of IFS Therapy into Christian Spirituality

56

(4)

Three Foundational Structures of the Internal System

60

(5)

Pam's Spiritual Journey

65

(8)

The Internal Struggle of Christians

73

(1)

Chapter Summary

74

(2)

Exercise: Seeking Your Own Internal Organization

76

(3)

Christ-Centered IFS Therapy

79

(44)

Assessing the Appropriateness of Using the CCIFS Model

79

(2)

Introducing the CCIFS Model

81

(3)

Setting Goals

84

(7)

Moving Ahead

91

(2)

The Mountain Exercise for Christian Clients

93

(6)

Pam's Guidelines for Relating to Ronald

99

(2)

Healing with Jesus: Retrieving and Unburdening a Part Stuck in the Past

101

(6)

The Healing of a Memory with Jesus

107

(7)

Summary of Procedures Unique to CCIFS Therapy

114

(3)

Clinical Outline of CCIFS Therapy for Working with Individuals

117

(4)

The Mountain Exercise

121

(2)

SECTION III: EQUIPPING CLIENTS WITH LEADERSHIP TOOLS FOR MEETING LIFE SITUATIONS

123

(150)

Cleaning the Slate and Keeping It Clean: The Forgiveness Process

127

(30)

Identifying the Existence of Resentments

129

(2)

Introducing the Three-Column Worksheet and the Main Principles

131

(1)

Helping the Client Assess the Usefulness and Timing of the Resentment Process

132

(1)

Listing the Resentments---The Work of Column 1

133

(3)

Listing the Effects of Offending Behaviors---Column 2 Work

136

(2)

Listing Anticipated Effects of Releasing Resentments---Column 3 Work

138

(1)

Helping the Client Assess Readiness to Release Resentments

139

(1)

Designing a Ritual for Releasing Resentments

139

(1)

Assimilating the Effects of Releasing

140

(1)

Considering the Wisdom of Encountering the Offender

141

(2)

The Forgiveness Process with Wrongs Experienced As Adults

143

(4)

Keeping the Slate Clean: A Shorthand Victimless Process for Current Situations

147

(5)

Chapter Summary

152

(1)

Clinical Outline of the Forgiveness Process

153

(1)

Exercise: Wiping Your Own Slate Clean

153

(4)

Spotting the Parts' Downward Spiral: The First Sequence of the Flowchart

157

(28)

Kirsten's Situation

157

(3)

Observing the Client's Need for Leadership Tools

160

(2)

Describing the Flowchart and Helping the Client to Assess the Time for Its Use

162

(1)

Developing a Rough Draft of the Parts' Survival Sequence

163

(7)

Testing the Rough Draft in a Live Situation

170

(2)

Lifting the Veil: Connecting Parts' Present Behavior to Hidden Core Responses

172

(3)

Appraising the Significance of the Core Responses

175

(4)

Chapter Summary

179

(1)

Clinical Outline: Spotting the Downward Spiral of Parts

180

(2)

The ``Rough Draft'' Exercise: Seeking Your Survival Sequence

182

(3)

Unhooking and Empowering: The Second Sequence of the Flowchart

185

(40)

Taking the Self's Pulse---Comparing and Choosing: The Crossroads of the Flowchart

186

(12)

Encountering the Lord Block

198

(10)

Christ-Centered Perceptions

208

(1)

Christ-Centered Feelings

209

(9)

Chapter Summary

218

(1)

Clinical Outline: Equipping the Self to Unhook from Parts and Empower Through Jesus

219

(3)

Exercise: Taking Your Pulse

222

(3)

Developing Christ-Centered Responses: The Third Sequence in the Flowchart

225

(48)

Setting the Stage for the Work of the Third Sequence--Discerning Where to Begin

226

(1)

Analyzing the Situation

227

(4)

The Analyzing Block Invites the Self to Lift the Veil on Hidden Dynamics

231

(2)

Designing New Responses Block

233

(6)

Streamlining the Flowchart

239

(4)

The Acknowledging Block---Acknowledging Successes and Lessons and Praising God

243

(2)

Ministering to the Parts Block

245

(3)

New Flowchart Applications for New Challenges

248

(16)

Chapter Summary

264

(3)

Clinical Outline: Designing and Implementing Christ-Centered Responses

267

(3)

Exercise: Analyzing a Situation and Designing Responses

270

(3)

Conclusions and Questions: The Christ-Centered Self Leads in Healing and Life

273

(6)

The Wounded Christian's Dilemma

273

(1)

The Transcendent Self Opens the Way to Jesus

274

(1)

The CCIFS Model Offers a Road Map for the Healing Journey

275

(1)

The Healing and Equipping Role of the Church

276

(3)

Index

279

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