Contemplative Prayer for Christians with Chronic Worry: An Eight-Week Program

Contemplative Prayer for Christians with Chronic Worry presents an eight-week approach for working with recurrent worry. Each chapter offers an introduction for the week, goals, techniques, and homework. Six free audio recordings are also available to download for use when practicing the guided meditations. Clinicians and their clients will find that the workbook helps them explore ways to lessen daily worries through contemplative prayer. Relying on scriptural support, the contemplative Christian tradition, and psychological science, clients will learn how to sit in silence with God, trusting in him during moments of uncertainty, worry, and anxiety. Joshua J. Knabb, PsyD, ABPP, is interim codirector of the master’s program in counseling psychology and associate professor of psychology in the School of Behavioral Sciences at California Baptist University. Thomas V. Frederick, PhD, is chair of the behavioral sciences department, director of the master’s program in counseling psychology, and associate professor of psychology in the Division of Online and Professional Studies at California Baptist University.