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How Christian Counselors Can Change The Lives Troubled Girls

Christian Counselors for Troubled Girls Hillsboro Oregon OR 

With the prevalence of Christian Counselors on the rise -- including with parents from the Hillsboro, OR area -- joined Christian residential treatment centers throughout America, we at Clearview Girls provide the following analysis of Christian Counselors. Read on to discover why we believe Christian Counselors are the best choice for Christian households and secular and agnostic teens. 


The following is a synopsis of what Christian Counseling services are and everything they are not. What's more, it concerns all Christian counselors, including outpatient, inpatient, and even church staff members. 

Christian Counselors for Troubled Teens in Hillsboro, OR 

As its classification aptly indicates, Christian counselors for troubled adolescent females have fully licensed therapists who blend the teachings of Christ in their psychoanalysis of mentally struggling teenage girls. 

Christian counselors for troubled teens are particularly trained to diagnose, manage, and spiritually guide teenagers like their secular niche-specialist equivalents -- just with a Christ-centered twist. 

While the integration of psychotherapy and religious faith has existed for many years, it is comparatively new in the application of mainstream psychotherapeutic troubled teen treatment centers. That being said, while more evidence is demanded, several studies seem to demonstrate the veracity of Christian therapy -- even when stacked against conventional secular treatment. For instance, according to one record, Christian counselors are more inclined to completely treat troubled teens from Christian homes than worldly therapists are to treat a child from a secular family (including those from the Hillsboro, OR area.  

Christian Counselors are frequently the option that Christian parents choose to treat their struggling teenage girls. While traditional therapy can assuredly be useful, many parents of the Christian faith feel that executing a spiritual component is just as significant as diagnosing and psychoanalyzing mental disturbances. 

The History of Christian Counseling 

Christian counseling formally began in the late 1960s and early 1970s during the 'Biblical Counseling Movement' famously championed by Jay E. Adams. 

Adams's 1970 book Competent to Counsel advocated a faith-based alternative to the era's homogenized secular field of psychiatry. 

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The biblical counselor does not ignore physical issues or emotional data but seeks to desegregate them into a holistic knowledge of the physique and change. The biblical counselor is not adversarial in his relationship to the psychologies of his culture but examines research and insights through the lens of Scripture.

In his work with the counselee, the biblical counsel perpetually acknowledges the supremacy of God, the transformative mercy of Christ, and the insight-giving and conviction-producing ministry of the Holy Spirit. In all of this, the biblical therapist is a more significant self not as an isolated tool of change but One whose obligation is lovingly connected to God's primary mechanism of change; the church, with all of its God-ordained responsibilities, structures, and means of forgiveness." 

There's Evidence to Show Christian Therapy is More Effective Than Secular Therapy 

Parents from Hillsboro, OR might be surprised to find out that there have been over 100 metastudies looking into whether Christian Counseling is as effective as secular counseling. The results might surprise you! Below is a retooled blog post that a Christian Counselor made when comparing the efficacy between the two. 

As it turns out, in these studies, Christians who received Christ-centered therapy had better results than atheists who received secular treatment. 

According to one AACC Christian counselor's blog post, religiously accommodated treatments had much greater spiritual effects on the patients than secular therapies. This was powerfully evident for comparisons with no-treatment conditions and alternative-treatment conditions. Also, religiously tailored treatments were even starkly better in increasing patients' spiritual lives than were strictly similar secular treatments (g = .34 at post-test and g = .32 at follow-up).

So, as Christian therapists, we can maintain our heads up, look licensing boards, managed care corporations, and insurance companies in the eyes and say, "Christian-accommodated treatments are just as effective or better than secular treatments in improving patients' symptoms, and they also do something for matched spiritual clients that secular treatments can not—provide better spiritual well-being."

Mental Health Direction in Hillsboro, OR for At-risk Youth

MasterNet is the first choice for Hillsboro, OR parents searching for a top-notch therapeutic boarding school to provide direction to their at-risk child undergoing alcohol dependence, peer conflict, or self-harming behavior related trials. Because working with highly resistant adolescent girls is challenging, most programs rely on level systems, punishments, and other behavioral techniques to manage a teen student’s behavior. Here at MasterNet, we recognize that the circumstances of one troubled child doesn’t always apply to all of our teen students. Because of this, MasterNet is faithful to the life skills development and experiential education for each adolescent girl, and we do this with professionalism and care.

We are proud to provide inspired support to ensure a lasting rehabilitation. We have the utmost respect for every teen student and family that we work with, and this is something that sets our therapeutic boarding school apart from the rest. MasterNet’s counselors acknowledge and appreciate the issues that adolescent girls from Hillsboro, OR deal with every day. With decades of collective experience in the therapeutic boarding school industry, MasterNet’s counselors have the ability to quickly assess, identify, and provide direction to teens battling drug abuse/addiction (including marijuana) obstacles, trials related to self-harming behavior, and causes for anger.

Because we specialize in a variety of relevant residential treatment strategies (equine, life training, behavioral therapy) and deliver outdoor recreation and adventure therapy, at-risk teens can grow to be healthy adults, and MasterNet’s teen students can emerge as strong people who are motivated to succeed. MasterNet recognizes that the entire family needs the support that our licensed counselors provide; so that your child can be rehabilitated and whole. MasterNet’s admissions specialists can be reached immediately at (435) 574-4518.

“A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity. A man lacking in sense pledges And becomes guarantor in the presence of his neighbor. He who loves transgression loves strife; He who raises his door seeks destruction.” Proverbs 17:17-19