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National House of Hope Intensive Training 2012

National House of Hope Intensive Training 2012

For those of you at the NHOH Intensive Counseling Training during January 2012, here are the links to the powerpoint slides used throughout the week. You are all a blessing! Please click on each of the titles below to download the powerpoint. St. John of the Cross CRAVING INTERVENTION blended families Millennial Generation How’m I [...]

God Attachment Presentation at 2011 AACC World Conference

Dr. Tim Clinton and Dr. Joshua Straub presented on God Attachment: Why Clients Believe, Act, and Feel the Way they Do About God at the 2011 AACC World Conference. Please click here for  the God Attachment preconference workshop presentation.

Will I Ever Be Normal Again? How Healthy Attachment Can Reintegrate the Traumatized Brain

Here is the presentation Josh gave at the 2011 AACC World Conference on September 29th, 2011. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask. Please click here to download presentation: Will I ever be normal again?    

Couples’ Faith: Handle With Care

Couples’ Faith: Handle With Care

Published in Thriving Family Magazine: Aug/Sept 2011 On a video screen at my wedding reception, God gave me a gift I’ll never forget. I saw footage of my wife, Christi, at 3 years old. With her mom by her side, this innocent little girl sat in the bathtub splashing water and singing as if she didn’t [...]

Finding Good Love

  Finding Good Love: Do Compatibility Constructs Really Predict Marital Satisfaction? by Dr. Joshua Straub With a catch in her voice, I knew what was going to pour out of her. Partly because I knew her husband and always felt he was pretty mean to her. “All I have ever wanted is for someone to [...]

CNN Belief Blog on God Attachment

CNN Belief Blog on God Attachment

Our Take: Your Relationship Style Determines How You Feel Toward God By Tim Clinton and Joshua Straub, Special to CNN A few weeks ago, Christopher Hitchens was interviewed on CNN. A renowned atheist who has recently been diagnosed with cancer, Hitchens told Anderson Cooper, “If you hear that I came to God on my death bed, don’t believe it.” [...]

Coping with Cliques

Coping with Cliques

No one likes to be excluded, but it happens often in our society. Here is valuable information to help you know how to respond to the problem of cliques. An interview with Dr. Joshua Straub. Click here for the remainder of the article.

2010 AACC National Workshop on God Attachment

2010 AACC National Workshop on God Attachment

The following is the powerpoint presentation on Dr. Tim Clinton and Dr. Joshua Straub’s workshop at the 2010 American Association of Christian Counselors National Conference on God Attachment: Why You Believe, Act, and Feel the Way You Do about God. Please click here for attachment.

Attachments, Neurobiology and Relationships: New Direction in Christian Counseling

Attachments, Neurobiology and Relationships: New Direction in Christian Counseling

The following is the powerpoint presentation for the Pre-Conference workshop at the 2010 AACC National Conference in Branson on Attachments, Neurobiology, and Relationships: New Direction in Christian Counseling featuring Dr. Tim Clinton, Dr. Gary Sibcy, and Dr. Joshua Straub. In the last decade, new brain imaging technology has shed an innovative light on the relationship [...]

The Millennial Generation: A Counseling Perspective

The Millennial Generation: A Counseling Perspective

The following link is the powerpoint presentation to Josh’s second session at the National House of Hope Conference in Orlando, FL on August 20th, 2010. And for those of you who were in attendance, don’t forget Ruth the Moabite, and how just one woman who didn’t look back can literally change the world! National House of Hope is [...]

Overcoming Attachment Disorders

Overcoming Attachment Disorders

The following is Josh’s powerpoint presentation from his workshop at the National House of Hope Conference on August 19th, 2010.  Simply click on the link below. National House of Hope is a non-denominational, not-for-profit organization established to serve as a catalyst to the development of a network of Houses of Hope, Christian residential programs for [...]

God Attachment: Why You Believe, Act, and Feel the Way You Do About God

God Attachment: Why You Believe, Act, and Feel the Way You Do About God

Is God dead? Is he nothing more than a figment of our imagination and crutch for the psychologically weak to lean on for security in life? Or is God real? Can we know him? Trust him for everyday life? Believe him? Billions of people say they believe in God, but does he make a difference in our everyday life? In God Attachment, Drs. Tim Clinton and Joshua Straub help explain why you believe, act, and feel the way you do about God.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Helping people change is no small task. But attachment theory and the secure-base system can help guide you in therapy, no matter what model or techniques you like to use.

Attachment-based therapy is based on six broad principles that spell out the acronym SECURE:

Attachment: The Antidote to Trauma

For those of you who attended Josh’s workshop at the 2009 American Association of Christian Counselors World Conference titled Attachment: The Antidote to Trauma, you can download the powerpoint slide here.

Sibling Rivalry! Causes and Cures

Sibling Rivalry! Causes and Cures

Adds family counselor Joshua Straub, Ph.D., of Lynchburg, Virginia: “Parents may not even realize they’re doing it. But a lot of times their personality clicks better with one child than the other. So they give the favored child a lot of special treatment or are easier on that child in terms of punishment. There may already be some bad feelings between the siblings, but this favoritism just adds fuel to the fire.”

Guitars. Gospel. & God

Guitars. Gospel. & God

God Attachment Guitars. Gospel. And God. Love him or hate him, there’s no denying Johnny Cash lived with passion. Though his journey was packed full of arrests, affairs, and addiction, he battled through it all to become one of America’s most legendary and iconic singers of all time. In the award-winning movie about him, Walk [...]

Teen and College Binge Drinking

Teen and College Binge Drinking

Having attended a state university for my undergraduate work, I (Josh) had the privilege of befriending an atheist who lived with me the last three years of college. With front row seats, watching his drunken oblivion throughout our college years worried me greatly. He nearly died on a number of occasions and had numerous run-ins with “Johnny Law.”

Relationships: Why you love, feel and act the way you do

Life is all about relationships—particularly with God and with those we love. You don’t have to go very far in the Bible to be reminded that God desires to be in a relationship with each and every one of us. Even more, the Bible says that He is a pursuer God, and that He works to win our hearts. His desire and His love are for us.

Bad Kids or Searching Teens?

Cutting. Dusting. Choking. Salvia. And no I’m not referring to cutting vegetables, cleaning your house or choking on your saliva-though that would be weird too. This is more serious than that. Way more serious.

Words you didn’t hear five years ago have now become common vernacular in a youth culture desperate for healing. Cutting-to desperately relieve the internal pain and depression. Using Dust Off ®-an aerosolized computer keyboard cleaner that contains compressed gas-to get high. Choking oneself to enter a euphoric state. And Salvia-an halluncinogenic herb only banned in eight states-more powerful than and considered to be the next marijuana. New fads. More teen deaths.

Awakening

awakening: no labor in vain An AACC Student Chapter Movement calling forth the next generation of Christian counseling leaders Thursday, September 17 at 8:30 pm Opryland Hotel, Nashville, TN Imagine the next generation of Christian counseling leaders…Employing the best practices. Leading counseling centers at local churches. Conducting research and counseling in war and poverty stricken [...]

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