About Us
Office of Christian Integration
Richmont integrates Christian theology with counseling and ministry education to promote human flourishing.
Integration is the term we use at Richmont to refer to how we relate truths we apprehend from Christian theology and spirituality with the theory and practice of clinical mental health counseling and psychology. Our first and deepest commitment is to Christ through our ecumenical Christian heritage and worldview, which compels us to discern truth wherever it may be found.
The Office of Christian Integration exists to facilitate conversation, connection, and critical thinking regarding the ways in which Christian theology, spiritual formation, and clinical mental health coalesce and influence the lives of our students, faculty, staff, and community.
CARA COCHRAN, PH.D.
Dean of the School of Counseling, Professor of Counseling, Chair of Integration
The Chalice: Mental Health and Christian Faith Podcast
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What Faculty Are Doing
Christ and Trauma Event at Wheaton College
Psychology for Theology and Ministry
Blueprint 1543 Podcast Series: Psychology for Theology and Ministry, featuring Dr. Preston Hill
After launching an online class integrating theology and psychology, Blueprint 1543 noticed that students of their TheoPsych classes had some questions our students at Richmont also have around integration. Many of these questions had really practical implications: Can insights from social psychology help us run church meetings better? How do I know if I should see a therapist or talk to my pastor? Is there such a thing as “thriving” amid a severe mental illness?
We’re thankful that our community and others are thinking about things like this, and we hope that these 8 episodes will help prompt more conversation in the church about these important issues. One of the episodes features Dr. Hill addressing trauma, theology, and mental health.
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