Books
Healing the Wounds of Trauma: How the Church Can Help
This book offers a practical approach to engaging the Bible and mental health principles to find God’s healing for wounds of the heart. This provides a strong foundation for restored lives and relationships.
It provides core mental health principles within a biblical framework, an approach that has been field tested since 2001 with leaders from Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and independent churches. It has been adapted into more than 150 languages and cultures around the world.
It is designed for use in groups and written in simple and non-technical language. Each lesson begins with a story depicting its topic, followed by discussion questions and participatory exercises. The book includes 270 Bible references from 217 passages.
This is the core book of the Trauma Healing Institute at American Bible Society. Also available for purchase in Español, French, Swahili.
Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission
In Troubled Minds Amy Simpson, whose family knows the trauma and bewilderment of mental illness, reminds us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, and she shows us the path to loving them well and becoming a church that loves God with whole hearts and whole souls, with the strength we have and with minds that are whole as well as minds that are troubled.
Christian Books about Mental Health
Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness
by Matthew S. Stanford
Mental Health Care at Church and Beyond: The Stigma Free Church
by Pastor Dr Bill Reese
Whispers in the Pews: Voices on Mental Illness in the Church
by Chris Morris
The Anxious Christian: Can God Use Your Anxiety for Good?
by Rhett Smith
Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
by Max Lucado
Recommended Books
Recommended resources from KayWarren.com
(Kay Warren is co-founder of Saddleback Church with and international speaker, best-selling author, and Bible teacher who has a passion for inspiring and motivating others to make a difference with their lives.)
Top 10 Books on Depression
Recommended at HeadHeartHand Blog, by David Murray (Professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and Adjunct Faculty at Westminster Theological Seminary)
1. I’m Not Supposed to Feel Like This by Chris Williams (and others).
2. Dealing with Depression by Sarah Collins and Jayne Haynes.
3. A Practical Workbook for the Depressed Christian by Dr John Lockley.
4. Overcoming Spiritual Depression by Arie Elshout.
5. Depression: Looking Up From The Stubborn Darkness by Ed Welch.
6. D Is For Depression by Michael Lawson.
7. Spiritual Depression: Its Causes And Cure by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
8. Broken Minds by Steve and Robyn Bloem.
9. Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission by Amy Simpson.
10. Christians Get Depressed Too: Hope and Help for The Depressed by David Murray.