Mark A. Yarhouse

Mark A. Yarhouse (Psy.D., Wheaton College) is professor of psychology and Hughes Chair of Christian Thought in Mental Health Practice at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. A licensed clinical psychologist, he serves as an adjunct faculty member of both the Institute for Sexual Wholeness in Atlanta, Georgia, and the psychology department of Wheaton College Graduate School.

He has written extensively for such professional publications as American Journal of Family Therapy, Marriage & Family: A Christian Journal, Mental Health, Religion & Culture, Journal of Psychology and Christianity, Psychotherapy, Professional Psychology: Research & Practice and Christian Scholar's Review. His other books include Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation,coauthored with Stanton L. Jones, Modern Psychopathologies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal, coauthored with Richard E. Butman and Barrett W. McRay, Sexual Identity Synthesis: A Guide to Living in the Time Between the Times, coauthored with Lori A. Burkett, Sexual Identity Synthesis: Attributions, Meaning-Making and the Search for Congruence, coauthored with Erica S. N. Tan, and Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate, coauthored with Stanton L. Jones.