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    • Crystal Tena
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    • Gina Weeks
    • Jen Eckles
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    • Faith-Based
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DECONSTRUCTION
and Faith-Based Counseling

A Course for Counselors and Therapists on Helping Clients
​Navigate Faith Transition Professionally and Ethically
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Why This Course?
Many counselors who provide faith-based counseling have been trained in graduate and continuing education programs that integrate mostly evangelical Christian doctrine and beliefs.

​In recent years, within evangelicalism has emerged the “deconstruction movement” where many are deconstructing their faith — whether that means simply questioning their beliefs, leaving Christianity (or leaving spirituality and religion altogether), or becoming spiritual-but-not religious.

Challenges to Faith-Based Counseling
  • How can faith-based counselors work with those who are deconstructing in therapy — especially if they have only been trained through the lens of a Christian integration model?
  • What if doing so brings distress to a counselor who still wants to hold to their own faith tradition without violating their own beliefs?
  • We talk about ways that counselors can approach this issue ethically and effectively through insight from the field of pastoral counseling and spiritual direction.
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What This Course is Not
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This course is not a theological, biblical, or apologetics response to the deconstruction movement. It is not meant to be evangelistic nor does it intend to re-convert those who have left their faith or coerce those who are questioning their faith.

This course is primarily for counselors and is meant to help clients who are deconstructing receive care that is client-centered, ethical, sensitive, and trauma-informed.This material may also be applicable to clergy, chaplains, and spiritual care professionals who want to learn more on how to ethically care for those who are deconstructing.

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What is Included?
This course gives a primer to the issue of deconstruction and how those dynamics affect the client, their family, and their process in therapy. It is meant to be a jumping-off point that provides introductory material on this topic but recommends additional resources for further study. The course includes:
  • 30 videos (90 minutes total) of lecture material that can be viewed at your own pace
  • Detailed notes with each lecture
  • Online discussion in the comments with the instructor and other students
  • Recommended resources for further study
  • Lifetime access so you can return to access the course whenever needed
  • Certificate of completion for (1.5 hours)--be sure to check with your licensing board to see if continuing education in pastoral counseling will qualify toward any requirements

Curriculum Overview


Introduction
  • What We Will Cover (Briefly) (3:38)
  • Defining Deconstruction (2:32)
  • What Happens When Someone Deconstructs? (1:48)
  • Cultural Causes of Deconstruction (4:48)
  • Personal Causes of Deconstruction (3:31)
  • Certain Beliefs May No Longer Resonate (4:51)

The Family
  • The Family in Process (1:37)
  • The Identified Patient (3:43)
  • Homeostasis (6:59)
  • Self-Differentiation (2:22)
  • Emotional Triangles (3:02)
  • The Extended Family Field (1:19)
  • What Not to Say (8:40)
  • What to Do Instead (4:40)​
The Client 
  • Your Role As Their Counselor (1:51)
  • Couples and Families (3:57)
  • Anger (1:22)
  • Grief (1:50)
  • Trauma (2:42)
  • Harmful Religion and Spiritual Abuse (3:45)
  • Helping a Client Reconstruct (4:24)
  • Spiritual Direction (3:13)

The Counselor
  • Working Through Counter-Transference (1:50)
  • Attending to Our Non-Verbal Cues (1:52)
  • Discovering Spiritual Symbols (4:04)
  • Paying Attention to Spiritual Language (4:09)
  • Finding Metaphors (1:41)
  • Increasing Spiritual Self-Awareness (3:19)
Your Instructor
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This course is taught by Rev. Tres Adames, MDiv, BCPC. Tres is a Board Certified Pastoral Counselor at Arizona Christian Counseling. He holds a Master of Divinity from Wesley Biblical Seminary and Bachelor of Arts from Asbury University. He has previously taught on faculty at Grand Canyon University (GCU) in the College of Theology. Tres is an active member of ACPE and previously served on the ACPE Psychotherapy Commission in 2020 and 2021. He has been a contributing writer, developer, and trainer of the Pastoral Care Specialist program since its inception.

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