{"id":58608,"date":"2023-03-08T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=58608"},"modified":"2023-03-08T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T19:32:20","slug":"counseling-theory-matters-understanding-and-evaluating-polyvagal-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=58608","title":{"rendered":"Counseling Theory Matters: Understanding and Evaluating Polyvagal Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Counseling theory matters. This is comically illustrated in the 90s sitcom <em>Frasier<\/em>. The <em>Cheers<\/em> spinoff features Kelsey Grammar playing the role of Dr. Frasier Crane, a psychologist by training and host of a radio talk show where listeners are invited to call in and receive counsel over the air. In one episode, Frasier falls ill. Thankfully, his brother Niles is also a trained psychologist and is willing to fill in and host the radio show. He opens the show this way: \u201cThis is Dr. Niles Crane, filling in for my ailing brother, Dr. Frasier Crane. Although I feel perfectly qualified to fill Frasier&#8217;s radio shoes, I should warn you that while Frasier is a Freudian, I am a Jungian. So there&#8217;ll be no blaming mother today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">One might have assumed that psychology is a unified field where everyone agrees on best practices and counseling theory. However, as Niles points out, his brother holds to Sigmund Freud\u2019s teaching and so traces a person\u2019s behavior to unconscious memories\u2014so maybe mommy is to blame. Niles bought into the teaching of Freud\u2019s protege turned rival, Carl Jung\u2014so try getting in touch with your feminine side. As a result of their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counseling theory matters. This is comically illustrated in the 90s sitcom Frasier. The Cheers spinoff features Kelsey Grammar playing the role of Dr. Frasier Crane, a psychologist by training and host of a radio talk show where listeners are invited to call in and receive counsel over the air. In one episode, Frasier falls ill. \u2026 Continue reading Counseling Theory Matters: Understanding and Evaluating Polyvagal Theory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[276],"tags":[145,32,5283,5066,2455],"class_list":["post-58608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel-mercies","tag-biblical-counseling","tag-counseling","tag-counseling-theory","tag-psychology","tag-sufficiency","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58610,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58608\/revisions\/58610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}