Biblical Counseling

Biblical Counseling

School of Education >> Division of Pyschology

As a graduate of counseling, you will have taken the first step of preparing to serve the Lord by serving those around you through a counseling ministry. This liberal arts major features a balanced combination of courses in biblical counseling, psychology, professional education, and communication, all of which are undergirded with a core of Bible courses designed to provide you with the right foundation—God’s sufficient Word. The counseling major is not only suitable preparation for graduate work in psychology and/or counseling, it also is frequently taken by men and women who hope to minister in Christian camps, Christian schools, and churches—as well as on foreign mission fields.

Curriculum Highlights

  • Freshman
  • Old Testament Messages
  • New Testament Messages
  • General Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
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  • Sophomore
  • Hermeneutics
  • Adolescent or Child Psychology
  • Experimental Psychology
  • The Life & Ministry of Christ
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  • Junior
  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Fundamentals of Counseling
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Practice of Counseling
  • Bible Doctrines
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  • Senior
  • Social Psychology
  • Foundations for Biblical Lifestyle
  • General Epistles

For further details see complete major information: Biblical Counseling Personal Opportunity Profile PDF

You may also contact Admissions (1.800.BJ.AND.ME) to receive a printed copy of this information.

Key Courses

Fundamentals of Counseling the foundation for a biblical counseling ministry, including an accurate view of man, the doctrines of sufficiency and sanctification, the role of the counselor, and ethics. Practical help is provided in gathering information, determining the problem, working on change, and the use of homework.

Practice of Counseling seeks to practically apply counseling fundamentals to the typical counseling problems that people face, helping the counselor to be better equipped for the ministry of counseling. Biblical Family Foundations presents a biblical foundation for establishing a Christian family, including a biblical view of marriage, the roles of husbands and wives, raising children, family worship, and the church-family relationship. Emphasis is on both having a Christian family and helping others to do the same.

Counseling Men addresses the common problems that men face, provides a biblical strategy for advancing in progressive sanctification. Focus is on being a godly man, and encouraging other men in the same pursuit.

Counseling Women offers practical instruction to prepare women to apply biblical principles to the problems women face, first in their own lives and then in the lives of other women whom they will counsel.

Abnormal Psychology will enable you to critique biblically the leading explanations of why people have problems, including the psychoanalytic, the behavioristic, the humanistic, and the inter-personal approaches. You will study the concept of “mental illness” and the medical model of abnormal behavior and become proficient in the history, vocabulary, methodology, and limitations of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistics Manual. Finally, you will be guided in arriving at a biblical response to the medical model.

Career Opportunities

As a graduate with a degree in Counseling, the following opportunities are open to you:

  • Counseling students in an elementary or secondary school
  • Counseling men, women, and children in the church, including premarital and marital counseling
  • Leading support groups, which includes working with people in hospitals, counseling those with friends and relatives in hospitals, & dealing with those who are facing death
  • Counseling family and youth, which may include working with delinquents, runaways, or those in halfway houses
  • Counseling in rehabilitation centers and jails, particularly prior to release
  • Serving in your local city, county, or state government