#264 Catalysing Christian counselling in the Global South 🗓
With Dr David Nikles
Churches and people helpers in many Global South nations are feeling the need to become equipped to offer integrated, psychologically robust, biblically sound, Christian Counselling that embraces whole person care. This talk will present a simple strategy and associated integrative approach to Christian Counselling that works sensitively across cultures and will briefly introduce resources that have been developed to assist this process.
The principles will be illustrated using the work of the Asian Christian Counselling Association and its partnership with Living Wholeness, two organisations which collaboratively are strengthening and equipping lay, pastoral, and professional Christian Counsellors across Asia and recently into Uganda.
More broadly, there will be an invitation to form National Christian Counselling associations so the body of Christ may work more synergistically together in this field, and some practical tips on how this may be facilitated.
Contact David for further enquiries:
Further resources:
- Asia Christian Counselling Association (ACCA)
- ACCA Handbook to establish an association
- Living Wholeness
- Foundations of Living Wholeness - Online Course
- Living Wholeness Mental Health video intro (message Dr Nikles for access to the whole video series)
Recommended Books:
- Understanding Depression by David Nikles (In English, Spanish or Mandarin)
- The C.U.R.E. for Life by John Warlow
- Management of Mental Disorders by Kimberlie Dean, Margo Genderson & Caroline Hunt
- DSM-5 Made Easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis by James Morrison
- Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry by Robert Boland, Marcia Verduin & Pedro Ruiz
- The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry by David M. Taylor, Thomas R. E. Barnes & Allan H. Young
Dr David Nikles
Dr David Nikles is an Australian Family Physician who commenced mission work in China in 2005 in the area of mental health and counselling training. His vision is strengthening Christian Counselling across the Global South, especially Asia. David is Cofounder/CEO of Living Wholeness, and Cofounder/Executive Team of Asian Christian Counselling Association (ACCA: www.asiancca.org).
