Biblical counseling
Biblical counseling (also known as nouthetic counseling from the Greek word noutheteo ("to admonish or warn.") is a form of Christian counseling

Christian counseling

Christian counseling is counseling which draws upon psychology and Christian teaching. Efforts to combine counseling with Christian or other religious perspectives or approaches are sometimes called "integration."...

 that aims to use devotional instructions in the Bible to treat psychological problems. It treats psychological problems as spiritual

Spiritual

Spiritual may refer to:*Spirituality, a concern with matters of the spirit*Spiritual , an African American song, usually with a Christian religious text...

 problems, which it teaches can be solved by devotion to Christ

Christ

Christ is the English term for the Greek meaning "the anointed one". It is a translation of the Hebrew , usually transliterated into English as Messiah or Mashiach...

. Nouthetic counseling consists of lovingly confronting people out of deep concern in order to help them make those changes that God requires. It has largely been superseded by other fundamentalist and folklore-based methods.

It was developed by Jay E. Adams

Jay E. Adams

Jay E. Adams is an American Reformed Christian author who is mostly known for his book, Competent to Counsel, in which he states that any Christian is more competent to counsel than any secular psychologist...

, and published in his 1970 book, Competent to Counsel.