Integration as Integrity: The Christian Therapist as Peacemaker

What is integration? Christians serving in the psychological professions have long debated the proper way to understand the relationship between psychology on the one hand and theology or Christianity or the Christian faith on the other. This book argues for understanding integration as a matter of personal integrity: its not about bridging or blending academic disciplines but about having a coherent vocational identity. What narrative will hold together both our core identity as Christians and our developing identity as clinicians? Peacemaking is proposed as the central motif based on the Beatitudes of Jesus. Christian therapists who understand themselves as peacemakers will in turn cultivate the clinical virtues of hope humility compassion and Sabbath rest.