BOOKS

 The Handbook of Religion and Health (3rd Edition) is the leading research resource on how faith and spirituality influence mental and physical well-being. Widely cited across psychology, medicine, and theology, it offers a rigorous review of studies linking religion to health outcomes such as resilience, depression, heart disease, cancer, and recovery.

This updated edition summarizes the best research through 2021 and explores how faith impacts health through mind–body mechanisms, community, and meaning. Each chapter includes practical applications for clinicians, chaplains, and community leaders.

Aligned with the Elijah Institute’s mission, this work affirms that faith and science together reveal a fuller understanding of healing—integrating body, mind, and soul.

 Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy offers a clear, practical guide for bringing faith and spirituality into clinical practice with confidence and care—from the first session to the last.

As attention to clients’ spiritual lives becomes a recognized part of effective therapy, this updated edition provides step-by-step guidance on assessment, treatment planning, interventions, outcomes, and ethical considerations. It also highlights new insights from neuroscience, spirituality, and moral injury research, within a concise, evidence-informed framework.

Accessible and clinically grounded, this book helps therapists integrate spirituality ethically, honor clients’ beliefs and values, and support healing through a whole-person approach—body, mind, and spirit.

An essential resource for clinicians, students, and educators committed to spiritually integrated care.

 A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person helps readers see the human person through three connected lenses—psychology, philosophy, and theology. Together, these fields offer a fuller and more balanced understanding of what it means to be human—created in God’s image and made for love, relationship, and growth.

The book explains how this model can guide therapists, teachers, and ministry leaders in understanding and caring for the whole person—body, mind, and soul. It outlines eleven key areas that shape human life and shows how these can be used to improve assessment, treatment, and care in mental health and counseling.

This framework helps professionals stay true to their Christian identity while serving people of all faiths or none.

Aligned with the Elijah Institute’s mission, A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person provides a clear, practical foundation for integrating faith and psychology to support true healing and human flourishing.

 The Handbook of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies explores how spirituality—our lived relationship with the sacred—shapes human experience and healing. Expressed through beliefs, values, and relationships, spirituality often holds the key to understanding both struggle and hope in therapy.

This volume brings together leading scholars who show how therapists can ethically and effectively integrate spiritual perspectives into psychotherapy across diverse faiths and cultures. It offers research-based frameworks, case studies, and clinical tools from settings such as private practice, hospitals, and community agencies.

Practical and evidence-informed, the handbook helps practitioners bring spiritual awareness and compassion into effective care.

Aligned with the Elijah Institute’s mission, it affirms that healing is most complete when therapy engages the whole person—body, mind, and soul—uniting clinical excellence with spiritual wisdom.

  Wayfaring reimagines mental health care through the wisdom of the Catholic Christian tradition and the insights of modern science—offering a vision of healing that sees people, not just problems.

Psychiatrist and theologian Dr. Warren Kinghorn draws on the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, the 13th-century Catholic philosopher and theologian whose work shaped much of Christian thought on the human person. Aquinas taught that we are created in God’s image, made for love and community, and journeying toward union with Him.

Building on this foundation, Kinghorn presents four core truths about the human person: we are loved by God, formed in community, on a journey toward Him, and called to wonder, love, and rest.

Blending faith and clinical insight, Kinghorn invites caregivers to move from simply “fixing” problems to truly accompanying those who suffer with compassion and hope.

Aligned with the Elijah Institute’s mission, Wayfaring offers therapists, pastors, and caregivers a Catholic Christian vision of mental health care that unites faith, science, and the dignity of the whole person.

  Psychopathology and Psychotherapy (4th Edition) offers a clear, practical foundation for therapists seeking to unite faith, ethics, and clinical skill.

Grounded in DSM-5-TR standards and shaped by the Adlerian view of the person, it helps clinicians understand and treat common mental health conditions while honoring the whole person—body, mind, and soul. Adler’s focus on purpose, belonging, and moral growth aligns closely with the Catholic vision of human dignity and wholeness.

Through engaging case studies, readers learn to connect diagnosis with compassionate treatment. This text equips Catholic-integrated therapists with the insight and competence needed for spiritually informed, evidence-based care.

Spiritually Informed Therapy bridges the best of clinical science with the enduring wisdom of faith and spirituality. Drawing from current research and centuries of spiritual tradition, this text offers a balanced, evidence-based framework for integrating spirituality into ethical and effective psychotherapy.

Through clear explanations and real-world examples, readers learn how to address spiritual concerns in therapy with respect, competence, and compassion. The book explores themes such as moral development, forgiveness, gratitude, mindfulness, and discernment—showing how these practices can support healing and growth for people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs.

Accessible and practical, this text equips clinicians to bring depth, meaning, and hope to the therapeutic process.

Aligned with the Elijah Institute’s mission, Spiritually Informed Therapy helps therapists develop the skills and insight needed to practice whole-person care—integrating body, mind, and soul within evidence-based clinical practice.

Living Better with Spirituality-Based Strategies That Work is a practical companion to Spiritually Informed Therapy, offering hands-on tools for bringing faith and evidence-based principles into everyday life and clinical practice

Designed for therapists, students, and individuals alike, the workbook includes guided reflections, exercises, and case examples that help readers apply key insights from Catholic Jesuit spirituality—including seeing God in all things, caring for the whole person, practicing discernment, and using daily reflection to grow in peace and purpose.

Through real-world examples and simple strategies, readers learn how faith-based practices can strengthen emotional resilience, guide ethical decision-making, and support lasting healing.

An accessible, evidence-informed resource for anyone seeking to integrate spiritual wisdom with practical skills for living well—aligned with the Elijah Institute’s mission to restore the whole person: body, mind, and soul

 Living Ethically in an Unethical World offers clear, practical guidance for making good moral choices in an increasingly complex world. Updated from its original 2004 edition, this book helps readers navigate everyday ethical challenges with confidence and integrity.

Blending psychological insight with timeless moral principles, the book introduces a simple, step-by-step framework for ethical decision-making and explores five core virtues: respect, responsibility, integrity, competence, and compassion. Each chapter includes self-reflection exercises and real-world examples to strengthen one’s “ethical muscle” and apply these values to daily life.

Accessible and engaging, this resource helps readers think critically, act courageously, and live in a way consistent with their faith and values.

Aligned with the Elijah Institute’s mission, Living Ethically in an Unethical World equips therapists, students, and leaders to make choices that promote wholeness, justice, and human dignity—essential elements of spiritually integrated care.

The Handbook of the Psychology of Fatherhood explores fatherhood across the lifespan, synthesizing research on fathering, child development, and men’s health. It examines the impact of isolation, loss, trauma, and mental and physical well-being from the perinatal period onward. The book highlights positive fatherhood and masculinity while addressing diverse fathering experiences, including military, LGBTQ, and marginalized fathers. It also covers clinical assessment, community-based interventions, and policy recommendations to support fathers and families.

This handbook is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and graduate students in psychology, social work, public health, and related fields.

Litanies of the Heart

masterfully blends cutting-edge psychotherapeutic approaches with orthodox Catholic theology, offering a transformative journey of healing. The book sheds light on the wounded and fearful conditions of the heart, bringing them into God’s merciful love, and guides readers through prayers like the Litanies of the Wounded, Closed, and Fearful Hearts. It invites readers to embark on a lifelong journey of healing, gathering the divided and traumatized parts of the heart into wholeness and communion with God. A must-read for anyone seeking healing or assisting others on that path. 

 Emerging Sexual Identities: A Faithful and Compassionate Response for Today’s Youth

With 20.8% of Gen Z identifying as LGBTQ+, according to a recent Gallup Poll, it is essential that those entrusted with the care of young people are prepared to respond with clarity, compassion, and fidelity to the Christian tradition. Emerging Sexual Identities, by Dr. Mark Yarhouse and Dr. Julia Sadusky, offers a thoughtful and faithful response to the complex landscape of adolescent sexual identity.

Grounded in clinical insight and deep pastoral sensitivity, this resource equips parents, pastors, educators, counselors, and youth leaders with the tools to walk alongside young people navigating questions of sexual orientation and identity. The authors explore how contemporary youth understand and express their sexual identities and present a new taxonomy that helps make sense of this shifting cultural terrain.

Rooted in Christian anthropology and informed by real-world ministry and clinical experience, this book places current trends in historical context and offers a hopeful, practical vision for accompaniment—one that upholds truth while extending grace.

 Gender Identity and Faith offers a compassionate, client-centered approach for clinicians navigating the complex intersection of gender identity and religious belief. Written by Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky, the book provides practical tools for mental health professionals helping clients explore gender while respecting their faith. It emphasizes open-ended, respectful journeys toward congruence between gender identity and religious identity, featuring clinical postures, assessments, therapeutic tools, and case studies. With worksheets and prompts for clients and families, this resource supports children, youth, and adults in navigating these deeply personal questions with empathy and care. A valuable guide for Christian clinicians committed to integrating faith and mental health practice. E

Emerging Gender Identities provides a thoughtful Christian response to the growing embrace of diverse gender identities among adolescents. Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky offer a compassionate, scientifically informed, and nuanced guide for pastors, church leaders, parents, youth workers, and counselors working with gender-diverse youth. They help readers understand the distinction between mental health concerns, like gender dysphoria, and the emerging gender identities that many young people seek for community and identity. Drawing on their extensive clinical and ministry experience, Yarhouse and Sadusky offer practical guidance for engaging and supporting teens while critically examining gender theory through a Christian lens. 

  Start Talking to Your Kids about Sex provides parents with the confidence and tools to have foundational conversations about their children’s changing bodies and sexuality from a Catholic perspective. Winner of a second-place award in the spirituality category from the Association of Catholic Publishers, this resource is designed to guide parents in addressing these important topics early—long before puberty—helping children understand the goodness of their bodies and navigate boundaries with confidence. Organized in an easy-to-follow question-and-answer format, Sadusky tackles common challenges, offering practical scripts and advice on topics like body exploration, responding to unwanted experiences, setting house rules, and addressing technology use. This essential guide is not only for parents but also for caregivers, educators, and mental health professionals who support children's healthy development.