Certification Requirements

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Reasonable requirements for the certification of counselors have been adopted. The Institute has
structured a demanding regimen involving special training in counseling from Scripture, course work,
practical experience, a stringent reading schedule, and the writing of a thesis.
These requirements are detailed as follows:

1. The applicant must submit a full resume detailing life experience that would contribute to
the skills required for certification.

2. The course, Christian Counseling from Scripture must be successfully completed.

3. A reading schedule consisting of at least one book from each of the five groups must be completed. 
Publisher is in parenthesis.

Group # 1

• Apostolic Counseling, by Dr. Lynda Allison Doty (AWP Ministries)

Group # 2

• The Diseasing of America , by Dr. Stanton Peele ( Lexington Books)
• Beyond Seduction, by Dave Hunt (Harvest House)
• Totally Sufficient, by Ed Hindson and Howard Eyrich (Harvest House)
• No More Ritalin, by Dr. Mary Ann Block (Kensington Health)
• Competent to Counsel, by Jay Adams (Baker Book House)
• Four Temperaments, Astrology and Personality Testing, by Dr. Martin Bobgan (Eastgate)
• Addiction is a Choice, by Jeffrey A. Schaler (Open Court Publishing)
  

Group # 3

• Only God Can Heal the Wounded Heart, by Dr. Ed Bulkley (Harvest House)
• Why Christians Can’t Trust Psychology, by Dr. Ed Bulkley (Harvest House)
• The Emperor’s New Clothes, by Kirk Kilpatrick (Crossway Books)
• Psychobabble, by Richard Ganz (Crossway Books)
• Psychology As Religion, by Dr. Paul Vitz (Eerdmans)
• Our Sufficiency in Christ, by John F. MacArthur (Crossway Books)
  

Group # 4

• Toxic Psychiatry, by Dr. Peter Breggin ( St. Martin ’s Press)
• The Aryan Christ, by Richard Noll (Random House)
• Unauthorized Freud, by Frederick Crews (Penguin) 
• The Jung Cult, by Richard Noll (Free Press)
• The Ritalin Fact Book, by Dr. Peter Breggin (Perseus Publishing)
• Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave, by Ed Welch (P&$R Publishing)

Group # 5 

• Your Drug May Be Your Problem, by Dr. Peter Breggin (Perseus Publishing)
• The Myth of Psychotherapy, by Dr. Thomas Szasz ( Syracuse Univ. Press)
• Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry, by Dr. Thomas Szasz  (Syracuse Univ. Press)
• Blaming The Brain, by Dr. Elliot S. Valenstein, Ph.D. (Free Press)
• Making Monsters, by Richard Offshe and Ethan Watters (Scribners)
• Manufacturing Victims, by Dr. Tana Dineen (Robert Davies Multlmedia)
• Talking Back to Prozac, by Dr. Peter Breggin
• Talking Back to Ritalin, by Dr. Peter Breggin
  
  

4. A thesis must be submitted in the format of Independent Research.

5. The applicant must provide an audio tape of a supervised and unrehearsed counseling session.

6. The applicant must attend an ISC Training Conference, provide interviews with ISC personnel, and complete any other work which may be specifically required.

Upon completion, the candidate will receive a certificate validating him or her as a soteric counselor.

He hath given us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. --2 Peter 1:3