UNDERSTANDING CHRIST CENTERED REALITY THERAPY: Volume One of the Christ Centered Reakity Therapy Training Series Kindle Edition

UNDERSTANDING CHRIST CENTERED REALITY THERAPY Volume One of the Christ Centered Reality Therapy Training SeriesUnderstanding Christ-Centered Reality Therapy (CCRT) is the foundational volume in the Christ‑Centered Reality Therapy Training Series. As Volume One, this book lays the essential theological, psychological, and clinical groundwork for counselors, pastors, students, and ministry leaders who want to understand how faith, reality, and responsible counseling come together in a unified, Christ‑centered model of care.This book introduces CCRT as more than a set of techniques—it is a comprehensive framework for understanding how people interpret reality, make choices, and experience the consequences of those choices. Rooted in biblical truth and informed by sound psychological principles, CCRT teaches that lasting change occurs when individuals align their thinking and behavior with God’s design for truth, responsibility, and relational integrity. Understanding CCRT explains how distorted perceptions, emotional reasoning, fear, and past trauma can lead people away from reality, trapping them in patterns of confusion, conflict, and self‑destructive behavior.Throughout the book, readers are guided through the core concepts that define Christ‑Centered Reality Therapy, including reality definition, responsibility, agency, boundaries, moral order, and accountability. These principles help counselors accurately assess what is happening in a client’s life instead of reacting only to emotions or symptoms. By learning how to distinguish between feelings and facts, personal responsibility and external influence, and healthy versus destructive patterns, readers gain a framework that brings clarity to even the most complex counseling situations.A major strength of this volume is its integration of Scripture with clinical insight. Rather than using the Bible as a collection of isolated verses, Understanding CCRT shows how God’s character, design for human relationships, and moral order provide a consistent foundation for healing. Readers learn how biblical themes such as truth, repentance, forgiveness, restoration, and justice connect directly to emotional health and relational stability.ENDORSEMENTSThis is foundationally written and applied in the book by my dear friends, Doctors Alan and Carrie Kitay. I truly appreciate them and highly endorse the book. Dr. Tom Barnette, MA, PhD, DBS, CCRT. Author of Christ Centered Reality TherapyThis book is a necessity in every Bible College, and for every Pastor, minister, and Counselor. CCRT gives understanding of a Christ-centered model and methodology for competent, effective Christian counseling.Dr. Virginia Bieber, President, Household of Faith Ministries. Ridge, New YorkWhat I appreciate most is that this book does not offer shallow encouragement or superficial techniques. Instead, it takes the counselor into the deeper waters of a practical and workable counseling system.Dr. Cedric E. Johnson, Pastor, Destiny Church of Clute, Texas Read more