There is a place where faith and culture meet, sometimes with whirlwind ferocity. That place is the family.

Family Therapy, a print symposium of mental health and counseling professionals and educators, addresses the need for integrating psychology and religion in family practice.

Jon Yost, Hendrika Vande Kemp, G. Peter Shenk, Clarence Hibbs, Barbara R. Krasner, Austin J. Joyce, and Alvin C. Dueck draw on preliminary research and their own heritages, examining how religion and culture contribute to dysfunction and how they can be insightfully harnessed to bring healing.

The writers raise questions that must be answered by both religious counselor and psychiatric professional