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Biblical Studies

BBL322 - Old Testament Minor Prophets

BBL324 - Old Testament Major Prophets

BBL418 - Capstone Project in Biblical Studies

Textbooks

 

Communication & Language

Christian Spirituality

Field Education

History & Thought

Global Studies

Leadership

LDR101 - Discipleship II

LDR432 - Theological Foundations of Pastoral Leadership

Social Science

PSY193 - Principles of Psychology

SSC194 - Principles of Sociology

SSC253 Addiction Counselling Skills II

Textbooks

  • Glasser, Wm. (1999). Choice Theory. Harper Perennial Press, New York. 9780060930141

  • Glasser, William (2001). Counseling with Choice Theory: The New Reality Therapy, Harper, New York. 9780060953669

  • Hoobyar, T., Dotz, T, Sanders, S., (2013). NLP: The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming. William Morrow Paperbacks, New York. 9780062083616

  • Trimpey, Jack (1996). Rational Recovery: The new cure for substance addiction. Pocket Books, Toronto. (Entire Book including the introduction). 9780671528584

  • deShazer, Steve, Dolan, Yvonne (2021). More than miracles: The state of the art of solution focused brief therapy. Routledge, Taylor Francis Group, New York. (Entire book). 9780367646417

SSC254 Relational Issues

Textbook

  • Barlow, D. (2021). Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: Recover from Emotional Abuse, recognize narcissists and manipulators and break free once and for all. A Road to Tranquility Book. ISBN 9798731539098.

  • Fortune, M. (1995). Keeping the Faith – Guidance for Christian Women Facing Abuse. Harper Collins Publishers, N.Y. ISBN 978-0062513007

  • Pelzer, David. (1995) A Child Called It. Health Communications Inc. Deerfield Florida 184 Pages ISBN 978-1558743663

  • Van Ness, D.W., Heetderks-Strong, K. (2022). Restoring Justice: An introduction to restorative justice. Routledge, New York, New York. (entire book) 256 pages ISBN 978-0367740795

  • Yantzi, Mark. (1998) Sexual Offending & Restoration. Herald Press. Waterloo, ON Canada 254 pages ISBN 978-0836190816

SSC282 - Social, Environmental & Disabling Issues in Development

SSC285 - Professional Foundations of Child & Youth Care

PSY293 - Developmental Psychology

PSY295 - Abnormal Psychology

PSY298 - Adolescent Psychology

SSC310 – Child and Youth Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities

SSC330 - Theoretical Approaches in Human Services

SSC350 Trauma and Disordered Eating

Textbook

  • Everly, G.S., Mitchell, J.T. (1999). Critical Incident Stress Management.  Chevron Publishing Corporation, Ellicott City, MD. (entire book). 178 pages ISBN 9781883581169

  • Schaefer, Jenni. (2004) Life Without Ed, McGraw Hill, New York 222 pages ISBN 9780071422987

  • Trimpey, J., Trimpey, L., (1995).  Taming the Feast Beast.  Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc. N.Y. ISBN 0440507243

  • Warren, Rick. Amen, Daniel. Hyman, Mark. (2013).  The Daniel Plan, Zondervan, 352 pages ISBN 9780310344292

SSC351 Case Management, Grief and Relational Violence

Textbook

  • Cloud, H., Townsend, J. (1992). Boundaries. Zondervan Publishers, Grand Rapids, Michigan.314 pages ISBN 978-0310247456

  • Coloroso, Barbara (2002) The Bully, The Bullied and The Bystander, Harper Collins, Toronto Canada 218 pages. ISBN 978-0002006484

  • Graff, M. (2020). The compassion fatigued organization: restoring compassion to the helping professionals148 pages. ISBN 978-0578753157

  • Teater, Martha. Ludgate, John. (2014) Overcoming Compassion Fatigue – A Practical Resilience Workbook. Pesi Publishing and Media Eau Claire, WI.139 pages ISBN 9781937661441

SSC352 Pharmacology

Texts books:

  • Butman, Richard E., McRay, Barrett W., and Yarhouse, M.A. (2016). Modern Psychopathologies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove. 9780830828500

  • Collins, Gary R (1988) Christian Counseling: A Comprehensive Guide (Revised Edition) Word Publishing, Dallas 9781418503291

  • Csiernik, Rick (2021). Substance Use and Abuse, 3rd edition. Canadian Scholars Press, Toronto, Ontario. 9781773382296

  • Herie, M., Skinner, W., Editors (2014). Fundamentals of Addiction – A practical guide for counsellors, 4th Edition. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto. 9781771141475

  • McKim, Wm., Hancock, S. (2013). Drugs and Behavior 8th edition. Pearson, Upper Saddle River, N.J. 9780134405025

  • Stevens, Patricia and Robert L. Smith (2017). Substance Abuse Counseling: Theory and Practice, 6th edition, Pearson, Upper Saddle River. 9780134055930

SSC353 Addiction Counselling Skills III

Textbooks

  • Glasner-Edwards, S. (2015), Forward by Richard A Rawson, The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook” Changing Addictive Behaviors using CBT, Mindfulness and Motivational Interviewing. New Harbinger Publications, Inc. Oakland, CA, 216 pages. ISBN 978-1626252783

  • Greenberger, D., Padesky, C. (2015). Mind over Mood, 2nd edition. New York: The Guilford Press. 341 Pages. ISBN 978-1462520428

  • Minuchin, S., Nichols, M.P. (1998). Family Healing: Strategies for hope and understanding. The Free Press, New York. 287 pages. ISBN 9780684855738

  • Van Dijk, S. (2012). Calming the emotional storm. New Harbinger Publications Inc., Oakland, CA. 174 pages. ISBN 978-1608820870

SSC354 Expressive Arts, Play Therapy & Forgiveness

Textbooks

  • Axline, Maxine. (1986) Dibs: In Search of Self. Ballantine, New York. 220 pages ISBN 9780345339256

  • Collins, Gary R (1988) Christian Counseling: A Comprehensive Guide (Revised Edition) Word Publishing, Dallas 711 Pages (Chapters 23) 16 pages ISBN 9780849931246

  • Hargrave, T., Zasowski, N. E. (2016).  Families and Forgiveness in the Intergenerational Family.  Routledge, New York. 236 pages ISBN 978-1138121843

  • Worden, Wm. (2009).  Grief counseling and Grief therapy: A handbook for the mental health practitioner 4th edition.  Routledge, London 328 pages ISBN 978-0415559997

    • ➢ The E-Text by Worden is linked for your use in Module 6.

SSC384 - Substance Abuse & Related Health Issues

Theology