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Subject: Re: Regulations for non-professional Biblical counselors
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:47:48 -0500
In the Nally v. Grace Community Church (Cal. 1986 or so, the Court of Appeals held
Like many seminaries, the seminary division of the school where I teach offers an M.A. in Biblical counseling requiring about 1 year of graduate work in religion and one year of graduate work in counseling. The degree is not designed to prepare graduate for licensure or professional practice
In the Nally v. Grace Community Church (Cal. 1986 or
so, the Court of Appeals held a pastoral counselor liable for "clergy
malpractice" because he did not "effectively" refer the
counselee to a secular psychologist. That seems to be the opposite of
the regulatory theory of rule 2 below.
In
