TIL 515: Biblical Counseling and Mental Disorder Diagnosis Part 1 (feat. Jenn Chen)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
1. How did this book come together?
2. What is the DSM?
3. What does it mean to have a mental disorder diagnosis?
4. What is the DSM and what is it not?
5. What are counselors trying to accomplish with the DSM?
6. How is the DSM a culturally attuned guide?
7. What is the DSM not?
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| 0:00.0 | Biblical counseling and mental disorder diagnosis on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Dale Johnson and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:18.0 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.6 | This week on the podcast I have with me, Dr. Jen Chin. She is ACBC certified and is taught |
| 0:28.4 | on biblical counseling at seminaries, universities, and different conferences. She's been |
| 0:33.4 | featured on biblical counseling observation videos and recently published biblical counseling |
| 0:38.2 | and mental disorders, which is what we are talking about today. Jim was previously licensed |
| 0:43.3 | as a clinical psychologist in 2002 after earning a doctorate in clinical psychology and a |
| 0:48.2 | master's degree in marriage and family therapy from Christian institutions. She was formerly |
| 0:53.4 | trained in evidence-based practices |
| 0:55.5 | in psychotherapy. However, Midway, through her psychologist's career, Jen ended up receiving |
| 1:00.9 | biblical counseling, after which she returned to school for a master's in biblical counseling. |
| 1:06.3 | And she left the secular world of mental health to practice biblical counseling. Jen, so wonderful to know you. |
| 1:12.4 | I've enjoyed the time the Lord has allowed us to share together and getting to know you and your |
| 1:17.6 | story and really eager to see the fruit that the Lord has produced in you and particularly as |
| 1:23.7 | you talk about in this book. And so welcome to the podcast, looking forward to our time together today. |
| 1:28.2 | Me too. Now, I confess we are a little behind on this one, but I was trying to save this for |
| 1:34.5 | mental health awareness month. So we're looking at the month of May. Now, that is the time where |
| 1:40.8 | the secular world acknowledges mental health awareness. And what we try and do on the |
| 1:45.8 | podcast is revisit ideas that come directly from the mental health world. And I wanted to save |
| 1:51.9 | this discussion for this week and this month during mental health awareness month. And so we're going to |
| 1:57.3 | talk about your book, which was released last October at our ACBC annual conference. |
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