Counseling The Hard Cases A Critical Review

This is a critical review of a book titled “Counseling the Hard Cases,” which was co-edited by Stuart Scott and Heath Lambert, both professors of biblical counseling. This Critical Review reveals that the lynchpin for Scott and Lambert’s house of cards is their view of mental illness. Their fallacious view is a disaster in the making and a danger to those who counsel and their counselees. Believing, teaching, and promoting such a view of mental illness will lead to calamities as it places in litigious danger those who will foolishly follow and copy-cat counsel with confidence accordingly. This can be a great detriment and disaster to those who receive such counseling. In addition to a review of each of the ten cases in “Counseling the Hard Cases,” the book includes chapters titled “Cases, Anecdotes, and Science,” “‘Organically Generated Difficulties’?” “Scriptures Misused, Abused or Missed,” and “Cross-Gender Counseling,”