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Faculty Publications - Mark Newmeyer

March 14, 2022 - 1 minute read


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Christian psychology coming of age

Mark Newmeyer, an associate professor in the Townsend Institute, served as guest editor of a recent issue of Journal of Psychology and Christianity, the flagship publication of the Christian Association of Psychological Studies (CAPS). CAPS is a group of Christian psychologists, social workers, and counselors. The special issue focused on “Innovations in Christian Mental Health Care and Training.”

Newmeyer and the other guest editor, Jim Sells from Regent University, requested articles from leaders in the field, including deans at cutting-edge counseling and psychology programs at Christian universities, to talk about topics such as clinical care and how to properly serve overseas missionaries.

Christian counseling and psychology is “growing up as a profession,” says Newmeyer.

“For a lot of years, Christians who were psychologists and counselors weren’t liked by anybody. Christians didn’t like our psychology, psychologists didn’t like our Christianity,” he says. “We’ve had to fight and scratch for our place at the table with Christianity and in the fields of psychology and counseling. CAPS became a place where all of us could come and be with kindred spirits, to nourish each other with this journal and feel empowered both in secular and in Christian contexts. This journal is one of the main outlets where we do good work and have these conversations.”

Guest editing the issue of the journal was a fantastic experience, he says. “Working with all these people that are really wonderful Christians, scholars and clinicians is almost unbelievable,” Newmeyer says. “I am pretty humbled by it all.”

Read more about faculty publications at the Office of the Provost under Academic Accolades: 2021 Edition.

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