Dec 11, 2024

Academic Catalog - Spring 2020

Academic Catalog - Spring 2020 [ARCHIVED]

Biblical Counseling Track, M.Div.

The concentration in Biblical Counseling provided by this track will prepare students for a wide variety of biblical guidance ministries in local churches. Students completing the M.Div. or M.A. degree programs in the Biblical Counseling track will be prepared to serve as a chaplain or on a local church staff with special responsibilities for counseling, pastoral care, and family ministries.

Philosophy of the Biblical Counseling Program

Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and for the glory of His name, the counseling programs at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary are committed to equip students to serve the church and fulfill the Great Commission through the ministry of Biblical Counseling. We will provide Christians who are called to the ministry of counseling the training and experience that is needed to explain and apply the authoritative and sufficient written Word of God in a clinically informed manner.

The guiding foundation for SEBTS’s Biblical Counseling program is that the Holy Scriptures are the written Word of the Living God and are necessary for understanding people as spiritual, moral, relational, and psychological beings (2 Timothy 3:14-17; Psalm 1). SEBTS’s counseling program prepares students to counsel from within the framework of a biblical anthropology, developing a biblical, God-related understanding of human problems, and implementing truthful, graceful, timely, relevant, and practical Christ-centered methods of problem solving and change (Psalm 1:1-2; Hebrews 4:12-13).

Read the full central affirmations of Southeastern’s Biblical Counseling Program.

Degree Description

The M.Div., B.C. track is better preparation for those with long-term local church ministry goals. The M.A. in B.C. is for those who will be specializing primarily in vocational counseling ministries. Pastoral candidates seeking a specialization in counseling ministries are advised to complete both the M.Div. following the Pastoral Ministry track and the M.A. in B.C. The Registrar can help a student design a program of study leading to the completion of both degrees.

Degree Requirements

Master of Divinity Core - 61 Hours

Into to Seminary (1)

SEM 5000 - Introduction to Seminary Education 1 semester hr(s). Taken during the first semester.

Bible Exposition (3)

Select one of the following courses:

CED 6300 - Bible Exposition for Ministry to Women I 3 semester hr(s).
PRS 6100 - Bible Exposition I: Hermeneutics and Preparation 3 semester hr(s).

Ministry Studies (9)

EVA 5100 - Evangelism: Nature and Practice 3 semester hr(s).
EVA 6610 - Personal Discipleship & Disciple-making 3 semester hr(s).
MIS 5100 - Christian Missions: Principles and Practice 3 semester hr(s).

Leadership Selective (3)

Select one of the following courses:

PMN 6500 - Pastoral Ministry and Leadership 3 semester hr(s).
PMN 6730 - Christian Leadership 3 semester hr(s).

Biblical Counseling - 27 Hours

Foundations for Counseling (3)

BCO 6000 - Foundations for Counseling 3 semester hr(s).

Counseling Practicum (6)

BCO 7501 - Counseling Practicum I 3 semester hr(s).
BCO 7502 - Counseling Practicum II 3 semester hr(s).

Relational Counseling (9)

BCO 6551 - Counseling Individuals with Problematic Emotions 3 semester hr(s).
BCO 6560 - Marital and Pre-marital Counseling 3 semester hr(s).
BCO 6580 - Counseling and the Church 3 semester hr(s).

Biblical Counseling Selectives (9)

Select three of the following courses:

BCO 6500 - Counseling Theory 3 semester hr(s).
BCO 6552 - Counseling Individuals and Families with Addiction Problems 3 semester hr(s).
BCO 6570 - Counseling Parents and Children 3 semester hr(s).
BCO 6860 - Cross-Cultural Counseling 3 semester hr(s).
BCO 7503 - Counseling Practicum III 3 semester hr(s).
BCO 7900 - Mentored Counseling Internship 3 semester hr(s).