Distinctions of the therapeutic relationship 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, we are doing something slightly unusual. We have more than one person here in the room with me, and we are having three folks who are

contributing myself, and then Dr. Sam Stevens, who is our director of Training Center

Certification here at ACBC, and also Dr. Ren Cherry, who is our director of donor relations

and finance. And today we are going to start a month-long journey. As we've done

in the past couple of years, this is Mental Health Awareness Month, the month of May.

And in years past, we have contributed in some way, shape, or form to discuss this idea of mental

health. It is quite a dominant

idea and way of thinking that is a major part of our culture. And I think it's helpful

for us to consider some ideas and then help us to think biblically through those things. So

you can go back to the last couple of

Mays and you can see how we've dealt with maybe even from more of an academic perspective,

some of the history of the ideas of mental health, where we got those ideas from a little bit

of a history of psychology and so on. This year, what I want to do is I want us to work through

maybe some very practical outworkings of the system of mental health.

Now, I want to give a clarification that I think is really important.

We're not saying that people who are involved in mental health are inherently evil.

Okay.

You don't go into a helping profession with a disdain for people, right?

We move into those spaces and areas

because we see hurting people and we want to help.

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