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We have chosen a sampling of courses that we hope will enrich you in your own journey as well as sharpen you in your practice. The emerging field of psychotherapy and spirituality embraces the key issues of empowerment, responsibility and community within the religious and cultural settings of your clients.
Our courses are perfect for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Mental Health Counselors, and Psychologists.
Below are our current available courses:
The course/text looks at the processes of attachment that frequently result in addiction and examines the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. It considers addiction as a broader issue that involves a range of behaviors far beyond alcohol and drugs to include work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy. Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent, May emphasizes that addiction represents an attempt to assert complete control over ones life.
Price: $80 $50
The course, Authentic Happiness, by Martin Seligman empowers clinicians with the tools to develop nurturing sets of strengths, competencies, and virtues in people; such as future-mindedness, hope, interpersonal skills, courage,the capacity for 'flow,' faith, and developing a work ethic.
Price: $100 $60
This user friendly book offers insight to the clinician, identifying the tools for persons with bipolar disorder to manage their illness. The author builds bridges of understanding between the person with bipolar disorder, their family and their professional support system.
Price: $150 $75
In Bold Love, Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Tremper Longman III present a fresh perspective on genuine Christian love; defining it as aggressive, unrelenting and passionate. Rather than helping people merely 'get along' with others at the expense of integrity, the authors introduce the possibility of making a significant, life-changing impact on family, friends, co-workers and even enemies.
Price: $120 $60
Boundaries is the seminal text on getting one’s life under control. Evidence of this book striking a common human chord is confirmed by sales of more than 700,000 copies and the spawning of specific issue volumes such as Boundaries in Marriage, Boundaries with Kids and Boundaries in Dating.
Price: $120 $60
Boundaries in Marriage is a natural extension of the principles developed by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend in their breakthrough text, Boundaries. However, there is no need for clinicians to read the first book prior to mastering Boundaries in Marriage.
Price: $110 $55
Boundaries with Kids emerged from the award-winning boundary work of Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend. Indeed, the same premise is the foundation for all the books: boundaries are similar to property lines, they help people figure out what belongs to them and what belongs to someone else.
Price: $90 $45
Dr. John Townsend draws from the principles of his best-selling book, Boundaries and incorporates new and exciting concepts from a Christian faith perspective that will help them practically guide parents in the task of parenting teenagers. The course will provide valuable tools in the therapist’s ability to help parents set healthy limits, realistic consequences, and to be loving and caring while establishing these rules.
Price: $120 $60
Ellen K. Baker guides the reader through waters all helping professionals must navigate in preserving their own well-being and in fortifying themselves from the unrelenting tides of stress unique to mental health practitioners.
Price: $60 $50
This is an excellent source for innovative strategies connecting the everyday world of clients with Christian principles and Scripture. This creative, time-saving guide assists therapists in helping clients achieve therapy goals through professionally sound exercises while maintaining a positive, supportive connection with Christian beliefs.
Price: $60 $40
SECTION ONE: Includes Parts I & II, (Chapters 1-7). We have chosen to present Competent Christian Counseling in three separate sections to help manage the course content and sharpen the focus as you review the text. This section covers the Introduction, Spiritual, Biological and Psychosocial Foundations of Christian Counseling.
Price: $50 $40
SECTION TWO: Includes Parts III & IV, (Chapters 8-16). We have chosen to present Competent Christian Counseling in three separate sections to help manage the course content and sharpen the focus as you review the text. This section covers the Counseling Relationship, Ethics, and the Process and Practice of Christian Counseling.
Price: $70 $50
SECTION THREE: Includes Parts V & VI, (Chapters 17-33). We have chosen to present Competent Christian Counseling in three separate sections to help manage the course content and sharpen the focus as you review the text. This section covers the major counseling modalities; marriage therapy,group work...
Price: $110 $75
CONVERSATIONS: Is a Journal that provides a Forum for Spiritual and Psychological Formation. It is published twice per year (Spring and Fall), by the Richmont Graduate University (formerly PSI), in Atlanta, GA. Please click on the Order Journal Online button to order this edition of Conversations.
Price: $30
CONVERSATIONS: Is a Journal that provides a Forum for Spiritual and Psychological Formation. It is published twice per year (Spring and Fall), by Richmont Graduate University (formerly PSI), in Atlanta, GA. Please click on the Order Journal Online button to order this edition of Conversations.
Price: $30
CONVERSATIONS: Is a Journal that provides a Forum for Spiritual and Psychological Formation. It is published twice per year (Spring and Fall), by Richmont Graduate University (formerly PSI), in Atlanta, GA. Please click on the Order Journal Online button to order this edition of Conversations.
Price: $30
These two articles enter from the realm of Transformational Theology addressing our struggles with personal authenticity and Spiritual Formation. They reference scripture, philosophers, cinema, and personal stories of suffering in bringing home the universality of man’s search for a coherent True Self.
Price: $0
Drs. Peter Sheras and Phyllis Koch-Sheras introduce the Couple Power Therapy model, an exciting new approach in which partners co-create a unified vision for their relationship. They use a series of sequential tasks to teach the partners how to transcend their individual identities to nurture the each other.
Price: $80 $50
The course offers a compilation of mature therapeutic insights that are valuable in achieving a better way of living. It describes a unique experiment in applied psychology where a group of individuals overcame a wide range of defensive behaviors and transformed their lives.
Price: $150 $75
Ernest Becker received the Pulitzer Prize for this work in 1974, two months after his death from colon cancer at age 49. The book expresses Becker’s view of humankind's evolution of thought. His work is built upon Otto Rank and Norman Brown's understanding of death and of Freud's psychoanalytical theory.
Price: $120 $60
In this book, relationship expert Gary Smalley shows how people are designed for relationships: with others, with themselves, and with God. It’s part of a person's relational DNA. When those relationships are balanced and healthy, life is good. But too often people live with broken, strained relationships, and the pain can be unbearable.
Price: $70 $50
Based on the first Summit of Positive Psychology, this book puts flesh on the emerging field of positive psychology. The text turns from psychology's pre-occupation with mental illness to mental health. Unapologetically scholars discuss 'the good life' or flourishing.
Price: $130 $65
The Gift of Therapy is Irvin Yalom's gift to the future generations of psychotherapists. Yalom's brand of spirituality is found in his wisdom, authenticity, honesty and his existential view of life. The American Psychiatric Association awarded him the 2000 Oscar Pfister prize for important contributions to religion and psychiatry.
Price: $100 $50
This clinically focused book presents the leading approaches in the treatment of unwanted homosexual attraction. The editors purposely chose the wide-ranging work of eight influential practitioners to highlight the diverse treatment approaches that are benefiting those seeking a change in sexual orientation and/or sexual identity.
Price: $45
The pain of losing a family member to an irreconcilable rift can be devastating. Mark Sichel’s Healing from Family Rifts will help clinicians guide others to finding peace and recovering from the isolation of family exile through his proven, ten-step healing program.
Price: $60
Dan Allender says that doubt, despair, and disappointment are not only a reality of daily life, they are also the tools God uses to grow faith, hope, and love. If people run from what they fear they actually rob themselves of the joy God intends for them to experience. The Healing Path is about the road that leads to health as people face the pain in their lives.
Price: $80 $50
This book is intended for the professional in the mental health fields who, whether they currently know it or not, work with persons who have or may develop addictions. Close attention is paid to the reasons why addictions often go unrecognized in psychotherapy. This book is an excellent resource for learning about structured as well as interview-based methods of addiction assessment.
Price: $80 $50
This APA published text is an excellent reference for clinicians seeking ideas on the synthesis of spirituality and therapy. CE participants will review a thorough history of the relationship between spirituality and mental health.
Price: $110 $55
The Intimate Mystery, Creating Strength and Beauty in Your Marriage by Dan B. Allender and Tremper Longman III, takes a deeper look at the heart of marriage. The book presents a refreshing context for relational transformation.
Price: $50 $40
In this groundbreaking bestseller, Martin Seligman, PhD, shows how to chart a new approach to living with 'flexible optimism'. Dr. Seligman outlines in this text the easy to follow techniques that have helped thousands of people rise above the pessimism and the depression that accompanies negative thoughts and build a life of rewards and lasting happiness.
Price: $90 $50
This book provides an ideal course for clinicians who are interested in sharpening their people caring skills.It is appropriate for master level socal workers. The insights are helpful to therapists of all ages and experience. Dr. Mary Pipher is an excellent supervisor that provides for the newer, as well as the more experienced therapist, a bag of wisdom to share with their clients.
Price: $60 $50
Rabbi Wolpe shares the wisdom of ancient stories, great philosophers, poets and rabbis as he addresses the pain and suffering that loss produces. He focuses on the question of how rather than why. How can people create meaning in difficult times?
Price: $90 $60
Terrence Real helps couples negotiate more mutuality in their relationships with the principles of 'Relationship Empowerment', which embodies a 21st century worldview. Real's premise is that both men and women have tried to establish a mutual relationship using old models of power and roles. The book is full of practical insight as well as tools to help your clients gain their voice as they each seek intimacy.
Price: $90 $60
Practicing Feminist Ethics in Psychology is an excellent collection of well-written chapters that draw on women's experience in expanding the conversation on ethics and psychology. The authors model a style of thinking and practicing that focuses on the empowerment of women and girls, while avoiding false universals.
Price: $90 $75
This highly acclaimed book and PBS series comparing the philosophies of Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis evolved from a course taught for 25 years by Harvard professor Armand M. Nicholi, Jr., M.D. Although these diametrically opposed brilliant minds of the 20th century never met, Nicholi intriguingly places their arguments side by side in virtual debate.
Price: $120 $60
Dr. Larry Crabb proposes a counseling model to help clinicians connect more deeply with others. Tired of superficial communication, Crabb developed the SoulTalk approach, to connect therapists with the deepest struggles, desires and dreams of other’s. He cleverly lays out the SoulTalk model via a five step dance lesson.
Price: $80 $50
There is growing empirical evidence that spiritual approaches to treating clients are as effective, and sometimes more effective, than secular ones, particularly with spiritually or religiously oriented patients. The book will show how a spiritual and theistic perspective of healing and change can enrich therapies currently in practice for eating disorders, including individual, group, and family therapy as well as 12-step programs.
Price: $80 $45
Spiritual Assessment is a handbook that outlines five assessment tools that can be used to conduct spiritual assessments. David R. Hodge addresses the pressing need for clinicians to be able to conduct research based spiritual assessments by offering a “how to” in this concise, practical book.
Price: $40 $30
In the course Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice The Heart of Helping Edward R. Canda, Ph.D. Leola Dyrud Furman, Ph.D. offer heartfelt information to all clinicians interested in the ethical application of Spirituality into the framework of people helping.
Price: $120 $60
Spiritual Resources in Family Therapy provides a treasury of resources to the clinician. Various experts, in their unique perspectives, address the beliefs and the practices that are deeply personal and the means within various communities of faith where they are experienced.
Price: $130 $65
Clinicians interested in the integration of spirituality and psychotherapy will find the second edition of A Spiritual Strategy For Counseling and Psychotherapy most helpful as it presents a purposeful theoretical framework, spirituality assessment strategies and therapeutic interventions.
Price: $95 $50
The fifth edition of The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice continues the endeavor to expand the conceptual, clinical, and practical elements of the strengths perspective. It is an outstanding collection of articles explaining the strengths-based philosophy, demonstrating how it works, and providing practical tools for its application. Each chapter is written by a respected individual(s) in the field providing a balanced approach to a social work practice that explores the strengths and assets of clients. An extensive and wide range of ideas and populations are covered in this text. The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice is intended for Licensed Clinical Social Workers at all levels of career experience.
Price: $80 $45
In ‘To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future’, Dr. Dan Allender shows people how to read the stories of their lives. This text will help them understand the meaning God has written into the details of who they are.
Price: $70 $50
This Institute of Medicine book sets forth a agenda with for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system.'The problem is not bad people in health care...it is that good people are working in systems that need to be made safer.'Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising quality patient care.
Price: $60 $50
This book fills a key need by presenting an integrated model for dealing with substance use disorders (SUDs) in an office-based practice. Flexible, nondogmatic and practical, the text focuses on 'what works' in addressing SUDs from initial assessment through early, middle, and the later states of treatment.
Price: $100 $50
The course presents an integrated approach to the treatment of alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems. This integrated approach broadens the perspectives of experienced and early career professionals alike. Practitioners from independent practice to public and private clinics will find the information beneficial.
Price: $80 $50
Arthur Kleinman explores the narratives of individuals as a backdrop for his observations on how adversity affects morality and self-identity. Kleinman offers in this book a groundbreaking approach to ethics; examining personal identity and moral choices in the context of disturbing realities.
Price: $80 $50
This book explores the problems, dilemmas, double-binds and provocations that take place between therapists and their patients. The authors approach the content with humor and wisdom, challenging professionals to explore the real impact their values, assumptions, and personal interests have upon their clients.
Price: $30
The book of Ecclesiastes is the backdrop for Rabbi Kushner's exploration of the topic, 'What really gives meaning to life'? Solomon looks into this timeless question by exploring the paths of selfishness and self-interest, the pursuits of pleasure, success and wealth.
Price: $60 $50
Rabbi Kushner explores the difficulties of affirming faith in the midst of life's tragedies. His views embrace helpful insights to the process of grieving. Clinicians will find his questions resonating with the issues underlining all loss, as well as the question of God in the light of pain and personal loss.
Price: $60 $50
The Wounded Heart is a book that visits the painful realities of sexual abuse with intellectual accuracy, spiritual integrity and compassion. Writing from a Christian evangelical perspective, Allender explains in detail the processes of seduction, vulnerability, injury and healing.
Price: $120 $60















