Association of Latter-day Saint Counselors and Psychotherapists

{{Short description|Mental health organization in Utah}}

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| name = Association of Latter-day Saint Counselors and Psychotherapists (AMCAP)

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| formation = {{start date and age|1975}}{{Cite journal |last=Jensen |first=Vern |date=October 1, 1978 |title=A History Of The Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists (AMCAP) |url=https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/irp/vol4/iss2/2 |journal=Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy |volume=4 |issue=2 |page=3 |via=Brigham Young University}}

| founder = Joe J. Christensen{{Cite journal |last=Ingoldsby |first=Bron |date=2005 |title=Review of Healing Souls: Psychotherapy in the Latter-day Saint Community |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23289263 |journal=Journal of Mormon History |publisher=Mormon History Association |volume=31 |issue=1 |page=202 |issn=0094-7342 |jstor=23289263}}

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| merger = LDS Personnel and Guidance Association (LDS PGA) 1964–1975

| type = Nonprofit

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| purpose = Organization for professional counselors and psychologists in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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| location_city = Orem, Utah

| location_country = United States

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| fields = Counseling psychology

| membership = 400

| membership_year = 2011{{Cite news |last=Gaede |first=Russell |date=October 2, 2011 |title=Conference for Mormon counselors focuses on 'return of virtue to psychological care' |language=en |work=Deseret News |url=https://www.deseret.com/2011/10/2/20387979/conference-for-mormon-counselors-focuses-on-return-of-virtue-to-psychological-care |access-date=2023-05-20}}

| language = English

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| leader_title = President

| leader_name = David T. Seamons

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| publication = Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

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| website = {{URL|https://LDSAMCAP.org/}}

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| formerly = Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists

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The Association of Latter-day Saint Counselors and Psychotherapists (AMCAP) is a professional society founded in 1975 supporting professionals who want to provide counseling services supportive of teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).{{Cite journal |last=Richards |first=P. |last2=Hansen |first2=Kristin |date=January 1, 2012 |title=Gospel-Centered Psychotherapy: What It Is and Why It Matters |url=https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/irp/vol34/iss1/7 |journal=Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy |volume=34 |issue=1|via= Brigham Young University}}{{Cite magazine |date=November 1977 |title=The Keep Apitchinin: AMCAP |url=https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/007-18-21.pdf |volume=3|issue=1|page=18|magazine=Sunstone}} The organization further serves to increase trust in mental health professionals in the LDS community.{{Cite book |last=Swedin |first=Eric G. | author-link=Eric G. Swedin| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wbKAEAAAQBAJ |title=Healing Souls: Psychotherapy in the Latter-day Saint Community |date=August 15, 2022 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-05424-2 |page=58 |url-access=limited |via=Google Books}} In 2012, AMCAP held a Utah conference with the Foundation for Attraction Research on homosexuality called "Reconciling Faith and Feelings".{{cite web|title=Video for AMCAP/FAR conference addressing same-sex attraction now available online|url=http://ldslights.org/video-for-amcapfar-conference-addressing-same-sex-attraction-now-available/|website=ldslights.org|publisher=North Star |date=March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915155120/https://ldslights.org/video-for-amcapfar-conference-addressing-same-sex-attraction-now-available/| archive-date= September 15, 2018 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |title=Reconciling Faith and Feelings Conference 2012 Highlights – AMCAP |url=https://ldsamcap.org/reconciling-faith-and-feelings-conference-2012-highlights/ |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=AMCAP}}

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