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While Nouethic counseling is strictly based on the biblical scriptures and the power of the holy spirit separate from any psychological implementations, Christian counseling tries to implement psychology and Christianity still keeping god and biblical truths in the picture. While they do not take psychology as the absolute answer or solution to problems that people face but rather use it as a tool in unity with Christianity to help people have a deeper understanding of themselves and God. Therefore Christian Counseling should not be thought of as in opposition to psychology but as complementary, it is not a competing religion. Though some Christians do reject the teachings of science completely, others think that they shouldn’t have to be separate and that they can be integrated together. Christian Counseling aims to do just that.

The way in which Christianity can be integrated with psychology is to consider the ways in which psychology and the bible agree and to therefore discard the teachings of psychology that don’t agree with the bible. While this tactic is still in progress and continuing to be looked at there have been significant efforts to try and integrate the two. Two men Stanton Jones and Richard Buteman came up with a list of three different methods on how to integrate psychology and the Christian faith. The methods are called Pragmatic eclecticism, Metatheoretical eclecticism, and Theoretical integration. The first method, pragmatic eclecticism, looks at the best solutions for resolving patients' problems based on research that has been done comparing different methods. The second method is concerned with the effectiveness of the helper and looks at what is working and what isn't. The third method takes theories that we already know and creates that into the baseline from which further research to build upon.

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