The disclaimer is to help pastors, biblical counselors, and lay leaders to engage the culture with this material.
– Understanding the DSM and its terms
– Not feeling intimidated by labels
– Diagnostic damnation - the label becomes the person’s identity
– Everyone has a worldview, a lense, a conceptual lens in which they view everything
– Secular psychology pushes, what does my theory say - so our theory informs our methodology
– The DSM is the bible of Psychiatry
– when we encounter these labels, we’re not counseling them, we're counseling the heart - according to scripture