The Concept of Mental Health on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love,

a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

And this week on the podcast, I am joined by Dr. Sam Stevens.

Dr. Stevens is the director of our Training Center certification, and he's going to join me this

week to talk about a very important topic, at least in the month of May. During the month

of May, it has been known since 1949 as Mental Health Awareness Month. And so we wanted to

get together to discuss this idea of mental health. This month, many people are celebrating the

ideas of mental health, wanting to

make other folks aware of the idea of mental health. And Dr. Stevens and I wanted to get together

to discuss this concept, this idea. It seems to have become a dominant way of thinking in the modern world. And so we wanted to try and

bring some clarity, some biblical thought as we think about this concept that's thrown around

quite regularly. So Dr. Stevens, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. Glad to be here.

The term mental health carries several different connotations that work against

the aims of biblical counseling. And we want to help our listeners to see that there are actually

several problems that lie behind a label like this. Before we discuss some of the history and

philosophy behind this concept, the concept of mental health, Could you break down the concept for our listeners?

Yeah, the idea of mental health is somewhat ambiguous. And even when you look at the definitions

that people offer, historically it has a wide range of definitions and even expressions in the

modern. Is it something different and distinct from psychiatry. Is this something different and distinct from

psychiatry? Is it something different and distinct from psychology? I mean, what is the aim

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