All courses are three credit hours.
CC 0513 Counseling Practicum
This course requires observation, participation, and directed counseling in an approved counseling setting in the area where the student lives that is to be carried out under the supervision of an approved supervising counselor. Forty-five supervised counseling hours are required.
CC 0523 Equipping Saints to Counsel
Audio
Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course is designed to provide Christian Counselors with biblical knowledge of the techniques and methods of Jesus, when counseling.
CC 0533 Ethics and Legal Issues in Christian Counseling
Audio
Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course provides the student with guidelines regarding proper ethics and legal requirements concerning counseling, and gives them information as to how to avoid legal problems.
CC 0543 Spirit Controlled Temperament
Textbook
Tim LaHaye/Dr. M. R. Burckley
This course offers students an understanding into the different patterns of temperament and gives them the key to allowing the Holy Spirit to control their temperaments, ultimately producing and/or improving communication, which in turn eases tensions and dissolves unnecessary guilt. It will show students how to help others to improve relationships.
CC 0553 Introduction to Psychology and Counseling
Textbook
Meier, Minirth, Wichern, & Ratcliff/Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course teaches classic theory along with added information that helps the student to correlate these understandings with a holistic, Christian view of humanity and counseling.
CC 0563 Repressed Memories
Textbook
Aryls N. McDonald/Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course will give the student insight into the healing process of sexual abuse. The information in this course has been well researched and contains solid clinical information that is offered in everyday language. The information gained will be of great benefit in helping clients and family members of survivors of sexual abuse.
CC 0573 Christian Counseling I and II
Audio
Dr. Sharon Hill
This course gives an overview of the field of counseling and then gives specific details on Interpersonal relationships, sexual issues in and out of marriage, inferiority and self-esteem, physical illness, grief, and singleness.
CC 0583 Christian Counseling III and IV
Audio
Dr. Sharon Hill
This course focuses on premarital counseling issues, marital problems, pregnancy and family problems, divorce and remarriage, mental disorders, alcoholism and addictions, financial counseling, and vocational and career issues.
CC 0593 Counseling Adopting Parents and Barren Women I and II
Audio
Dr. Gloria Wahr
This study does an excellent job in dealing with these very import issues in our society. It discusses things to do and things not to do for those who wish to adopt and gives comforting advice to women who are barren.
CC 5103 Conquering the Mind
Audio
Dr. Annette Sasser
This course provides means and ways of conquering the natural mind, and renewing it with the mind of Christ.
CC 5113 Healing the Memories I and II
Audio
Dr. Shelby Jeffcoat
This course gives informative suggestions to counselors concerning dealing with people who have psychological scars from bad memories.
CC 5123 Crisis Counseling and Pastoral Psychology
Audio
Dr. Harold Vick
This course deals with how to counsel individuals during various crisis situations. It offers sound spiritual advice to counselors involved in this very delicate type of counseling. It also deals with special situations involving pastors such as: hospital visitation, proper behavior during counseling and much more.
CC 5133 Competent to Counsel
Textbook
Jay E. Adams/ Dr. M. R. Burckley
This course introduces students to Nouthetic Counseling and helps them develop biblical counseling skills that have been used in pastor’s studies, and in counseling centers throughout the country and around the world.
CC 5143 Christ Centered Therapy
Textbook
Anderson/Zuehlke/Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course will show students how to integrate Christ-centered counseling with the requirements of managed care and professional psychology at the start of the 21st century. It will help students understand the different issues involved in integrating theology and psychology, and will help students to be able to turn theory into practical application.
CC 5153 Your God Given Dreams
Audio
Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course is based on the life of Joseph. It shows how we can hold on to the dreams and visions God has given us even in the worst circumstances of our lives.
CC 5163 Making Life Healing Changes
Audio
Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course will help show how to accept God’s grace, truth, and time as it relates to us. It will help us to understand bonding relationships to God and others. You will learn about boundaries and how to develop healthy boundaries.
CC 5173 12 Steps to Life Recovery
Audio
Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course will teach one how to take the 12 biblical steps to reach that place of wholeness God wants for His people so we may enjoy the abundant life Christ came to give us.
CC 5183 The Christian Family
Textbook
Larry Christenson/Dr. M. R. Burckley
This course introduces the student to God’s order for the family, and demonstrates how a family can practice the presence of Jesus and be a witness for Him.
CC 5193 God’s Truth Versus The Lies We Believe
Audio
Dr. M.R. Burckley
Every day we are confronted by the lies of our culture. We have even believed some religious lies that stem from tradition. This course helps us analyze these lies and replace them with truth.
“And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)
CC 5203 Living Supernaturally Natural
Audio
Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course will teach us about our origins and how we can live above this world by applying the truth God has for us. This course helps us to understand that although we now live in this world, we are supernatural beings and teaches us how to live as such.
CC 5213 Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in CC
Textbook
Mark R. McMinn/Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course attempts to bring together for the Christian counselor the three different avenues of psychology, theology, and spirituality. It looks at intra-disciplinary integration involving the practical implications of responsible psychology, Christian theology, and spiritual growth.
CC 5223 Modern Psycho Therapies
Textbook
Flannelly/Preston/Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course includes a careful analyses and penetrating critiques of modern psychotherapies. It gives understanding to each therapy and provides helpful guidance for the evaluation of psychotherapies in general.
CC 5233 Basic Biblical Counseling
Audio
Dr. M. R. Burckley
This course offers the basic skills for biblical Counseling. It will help the student to restore troubled people to a place of productive, creative living as well as help those who have been called to a pastorate to counsel more effective.
CC 5243 Crisis and Trauma Counseling
Textbook
Dr. H. Norman Wright/Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course will prepare the student to provide hope and help when tragedy strikes in people’s lives. It covers everything from post-traumatic stress disorder to counseling children and teens in crisis.
CC 5253 Counseling Survivors Of Traumatic Events
Textbook
Weaver/Flannelly/Preston Dr. M. R. Burckley
This course will help the counseling student to recognize the symptoms displayed by those who have experienced different types of trauma in their lives. It will further instruct them in the most effective methods of counseling to be used for the particular trauma experienced.
CC 5263 Champions: A Study of Brokenness
Audio
Dr. Frank Rosenstern
The Bible is filled with champions for God. We need champions today, and the way champions are developed is by one submitting himself wholly to God’s will.
CC 5273 Confrontation Counseling and Confronting in A Healthy Way
Audio
Dr. Kurt Huth and Dr. M. R. Burckley
This course deals with the proper attitude and tactfulness in confronting people concerning their problems.
CC 5283 Counseling Victims of Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders
Audio
Dr. Eileen Kelly-Cocke
This course will help counselors in dealing with victims of sexual abuse as well as helping those with eating disorders.
CC 5293 Christian Living in The Home
Textbook
Jay E. Adams/Dr. R. Clifton Drawdy
Christians will find this course full of practical, biblical advice on Christ-centered family living, communicating with family members, family guidance and discipline, living with an unbelieving spouse, and many other areas. Counselors will value this course for its insight, clarity, and faithfulness to God’s
Word.
CC 5303 Counseling Families Across the Stages of Life
Textbook
Weaver/Revilla/Loeing/Dr. M. R. Burckley
This course is a description of Therapeutic methods and the faith community’s resources, which can provide relief and healing for twenty common issues experienced by families. These include pre-martial counseling, dual earner families, blended families, troubled teens and more.
CC 5313 The Career Counselor
Textbook
Leslie and Lee Parrott/Dr. M. R. Burckley
This course will prepare students to better guide those who are seeking jobs or changing jobs, and those struggling with tough career decisions.
CC 5323 Human Development and Faith
Textbook
Felicity B. Kelcore/Dr. M. R. Burckley
This course brings together the best available understanding of human development from a multidisciplinary perspective. It is uniquely inclusive of the moral and faith dimensions of the life cycle and examines the interplay of mind, body, family, community, and soul at every stage of development.
CC 5333 Blame It on the Brain
Textbook
Edward T. Welch/Dr. M.R. Burckley
This course offers the student biblical and scientific information on alcoholism, homosexuality, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, ADD, psychiatric problems, and brain dysfunction. Dr. Welch looks at these things through the lens of Scripture, separating and distinguishing what is actually a brain problem and what is a sin problem.
CC 5343 The Biblical Basis of Christian Counseling
Textbook
Gary R. Collins, Ph.D./Dr. M. R. Burckley
This course will give the student a practical working knowledge of Scripture and the basics of the Christian faith. This course will help the student to relate the basic teachings of Scripture to people’s problems. It is the core of what Christian counselors must know to be truly effective in helping others.
CC 5353 Renewing of the Mind
Audio
Dr. Kurt Huth
God has made us feeling human beings, but He expects us to control our emotions, not to allow our emotions to control us. This course will help one to understand emotions, what they are, their origins, and how to use them to one’s advantage and spiritual growth.
CC 5363 Introduction to Psychology I and II
Audio
Dr. Ronald K. Powell
Introduction to Psychology covers the full range of important topics—from early childhood development to motivation and emotion to attribution theory, from superego to the brain chemical called endorphin, and from classical conditioning to cognitive restructuring.
CC 5373 Prayers That Heal the Heart
Audio/Textbook
Dr. Mark Virkler/Dr. Patti Virkler
In this course, based on his book "Prayers That Heal the Heart", Dr. Virkler teaches a series of seven specific prayers that will break bondages within your heart caused by spiritual forces. These prayers include breaking generational sins and curses; severing ungodly soul ties; removing negative beliefs and inner vows; healing traumatic scenes; and casting out demonic energy that has connected itself to these inner wounds of the heart and soul.
(Available in Spanish: Oraciones Que Sanan el Corazón) (Also known as SG 5143)
CC 5383 Identity Formation: How Father God Shapes Personal Identity
Audio/Textbook
Debbye Graafsma, MMCC
This course will help you understand how God makes each individual and how that uniqueness is a gift. Helpful for understanding your clients and helping them understand themselves.