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The website ''The Berean Call'' has a number of articles on various false claims and unbiblical notions that many practioners counseling psychology promote.<ref>http://www.thebereancall.org/topic/psychology</ref>
The website ''The Berean Call'' has a number of articles on various false claims and unbiblical notions that many practioners counseling psychology promote.<ref>http://www.thebereancall.org/topic/psychology</ref>
== Effectiveness of laymen vs. trained psychologists ==
Christian author Todd A. Sinelli wrote in an article entitled ''To Whom Shall We Go?'':
Christian author Todd A. Sinelli wrote in an article entitled ''To Whom Shall We Go?'':
A 1985 paper entitled ''Does professional training make a therapist more effective?'' which was published by the University of Texas reported there was no substantial difference in between the results that laymen and trained psychologists are able to achieve.<ref>http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall07/brunnquelld/psy8542/Session%2007/Berman%20session%207_1986-02211-001.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3901068</ref>
A 1985 paper entitled ''Does professional training make a therapist more effective?'' which was published by the University of Texas reported there was no substantial difference in between the results that laymen and trained psychologists are able to achieve.<ref>http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall07/brunnquelld/psy8542/Session%2007/Berman%20session%207_1986-02211-001.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3901068</ref>
== Psychiatric quackery revealed by race often unnecessarily causing misdiagnosis ==
In 2005, The ''Washington Post'' reported:
{{Cquote|John Zeber recently examined one of the nation's largest databases of psychiatric cases to evaluate how doctors diagnose schizophrenia, a disorder that often portends years of powerful brain-altering drugs, social ostracism and forced hospitalizations.
Although schizophrenia has been shown to affect all ethnic groups at the same rate, the scientist found that blacks in the United States were more than four times as likely to be diagnosed with the disorder as whites. Hispanics were more than three times as likely to be diagnosed as whites.<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062701496.html</ref>}}
== Faith in God and negative emotions ==
== Faith in God and negative emotions ==