4mat Review Mcminn

Week Seven, 4MAT Review

· In this module/week, you will explore the psychological and spiritual dynamics of sin and effective counseling approaches for confronting of sin. This module/week's presentations also provide an overview of confession as an important dynamic of the therapeutic relationship and the client's healing process.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

· Discuss the nature of sin and the distinction between "concept of sin" and "sin."

· Discuss attributional style and counseling interventions related to personal responsibility.

· Discuss the impact of counseling for sin on the client's sense of self, awareness of need, and openness to healing relationships.

· Discuss techniques and cautions in the use of confrontation.

· Discuss practices of confession in the therapeutic relationship.

The 4MAT Review is a way of responding to readings, lectures, and life experiences that requires you, the learner, to interact with new ideas on several levels. You will write a review for the McMinn textbook. In preparing your 4MAT Review, use each of the sections listed below with corresponding Level One headings in current APA format:

1. Provide a title page including only your name, the paper title (referring to the book title), and the institutional affiliation (Liberty University). Keep in mind that current APA standards recommend the title length not exceed 12 words. Also, keep in mind that the Running Head of your paper should be in the neighborhood of four to six words. All pages must include a running head and page number, and all pages are double spaced. Please include an abstract on page 2.

2. Summary: After introducing the name of the book and author, summarize the book in approximately 2 pages. Be appropriately concise but also be adequately complete in your ideas. Prove that you comprehend the main ideas by writing a clear and succinct summary. The summary is not a commentary or listing of topics but rather a discussion of the core ideas (main ideas) in the entire book. If you miss the main ideas, you lack an understanding of the complete message of the book. The summary provides the foundation for the rest of your 4MAT paper. Cite the book in-text at least once per paragraph and include page numbers for direct quotations.

3. Concrete Responses: Be vulnerable. In approximately 1 page, write about a personal life episode that this book triggered in your memory. Relate your story in first person, describing action and quoting exact words you remember hearing or saying. In the teaching style of Jesus, this is your own parable, case study, or personal connection to the main ideas of the book. Your comments in this section need to be clearly tied to main points from the book, not tangential ideas. Connect your comments to the main points for the reader.

4. Reflection: This section is a short critique or evaluation of the author’s main ideas; include positives/negatives and strengths/weaknesses. You should consider new questions that arose for you in response to what you have read and explore concerns, implications, etc. Also, consider other sources that you have encountered in your life up to this point that relate to this book, such as other textbooks, journal articles, Scripture passages, and even ethical codes such as those in the ACA Code of Ethics (2014). Provide this critique in approximately 1 ½ pages (sometimes additional length may be needed to provide an adequate critique).

5. Theological Interaction: This section is a significant part of your paper (25 points out of 125 points), and you are required to reflect on the question assigned to you, depending on the text you are reading for the particular 4MAT assignment. In approximately 2 pages

McMinn text . In approximately 2 pages, respond to the following issue: McMinn discusses guidelines when confronting sin during a counseling experience, and the lectures reviewed some factors as well. Why can a sensitive Christian counselor not just automatically and quickly confront obvious sin in the life of the client? Of the cautions mentioned by McMinn and other class sources, which ones to you think counselors most often overlook? Why? You are also encouraged to share any passages or stories in Scripture that directly relate to this issue. When identifying this story or stories, take time to clearly describe how this passage of Scripture directly relates to what you are communicating.

6. Action: What are you going to do about it? Develop action steps based on the core points of the book. This section must be a description of how the main ideas will affect your counseling. What professional changes will you implement and share with others? Be precise in summarizing your action steps and clearly connect your action steps to main points from the book. This section must be 1 page or less.

7. You are also required to create a references page; on this page, you must provide the complete reference citation for the book, along with other materials, in compliance with current APA standards.

PAGES

Title page

Page 1 Abstract (1 paragraph) & Summary

Page 2 Summary

Page 3 Summary & Concrete Response

Page 4 Reflection

Page 5 Reflection & Theological Interaction

Page 6 Theological Interaction

Page 7 Action

Reference Page

Create and submit these assignments in a Microsoft Word document; these assignments must be written at the graduate level and must be in current APA format.

Note: Use quotations strategically and sparingly; in a paper this size, do not use longer (block) quotations.

You are highly encouraged to use the following website as a reference for proper APA formatting (This is a sample APA formatted paper):

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/apa_sample_paper.html

READING FROM TEXTBOOK

· Book: The New Christian Counselor, A Fresh Biblical & Transformational Approach

· Author: Dr. Ron Hawkins, Dr. Tim Clinton

· Hawkins & Clinton Chapters 9 & 10

Chapter 9 Action and Adaptation

Chapter 10 Community and Accountability

· Book: Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling

· Author: Mark R. McMinn, PH.D., new foreword by Gary R. Collins. PH. D.

· McWinn Chapter 7 & 8

Chapter 7 Forgiveness written with Katheryn Rhoads Meek

Chapter 8 Redemption

Lecture One

· Sin, Confession, and Redemption in Counseling

· COUN 506 (LUO)

· Week Seven, Lecture One

· Integrative Concepts

· Language of Psychology: Psychopathology as “a sickness”; has “external” attribution.

· The responsibility lies outside their control its not their fault

· Language of Christian Spirituality. Sin; has “internal” attribution; “sins” vs. Sin.

· Language of Theology: Evil; has a “cosmic” attribution; natural vs moral evil

· Whatever Became of Sin? Concept of “sin” (Psychology)

· Unhealthy guilt dynamics

· The therapist feels they client are burden with guilt

· The way we think about behavior is the problem

· Right and wrong are acts of individual perception

· Goal of counseling is to minimize sensitivity to sin

· Whatever Became of Sin? Concept of “sin” (Theology)

· Universal human condition

· Personal sin is the cause of our cognitive and emotional problems.

· Right and wrong are matters of God’s law.

· Goals of counseling is to heighten our sensitivity to sin.

· Nature of Sin

· Original Sin

· Heredity

· Universal

· Falling Short

· Idolatry

· Alienation

· Perversion

· Personal Sin

· Personal choice

· Rebellion

· Numbness or insensitivity

· Appropriate guilt

· Deception

· Bondage

· Lovelessness

· Prayerlessness

· Attributional Style

· Counseling Map for Dynamics of Sin (McMinn) Client Self-Awareness

· Attributional Style: Internal, external, cosmic?

· Conscience/Moral development: Sense of right and wrong?

· Theistic vs. Humanistic values: Who’s responsibility or blaming?

· Bondage/addictions: Self -control or out-of-control?

· Client’s Awareness of Needs

· Seeking to be okay OR be forgiven?

· Feeling remorse OR feeling repentance?

· Awareness of need for God OR focused on counseling as solution?

· Acceptance of consequences of actions?

· Willingness to accept responsibility for harm caused to others (restitution)?

· Healing Relationships

· Receptivity or Openness to discuss moral matters of conscience.

· Honesty: is the client capable of being honest at this level?

· Confrontation: Using the “S” word (Sin), pondering, questions, direct censure, visualization, prayer.

· Penance: Accepts consequences and seeks restitution.

Lecture Two

· Counseling Methods Related to Confrontation and Confession

· COUN 506(LUO)

· Week Seven, Lecture Two