Positive Psychology Youth Coaching Handbook

Traditional adolescent psychology has long been trapped in a reactive, pathology-seeking deficit model-treating youth as broken patients to be chemically managed or behavioral isolated. In The Positive
Psychology Youth Coaching Handbook, Dr. Paul Sang Bok Lee introduces a groundbreaking paradigm shift:
Christian Positive Neuroscience (CPN). Backed by the empirical disciplines of a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and an uncompromised M.Div. foundation, Dr. Lee outlines how targeted scriptural cognitive filters, structured gratitude loops, and cross-lobe synaptic interconnectivity physically re-wire the adolescent brain into a state of self-regulated homeostasis (2 Timothy 1:7). This text is an elite, essential addition to any graduate-level pastoral counseling, clinical family science, or youth ministry curriculum.

Dr. Paul Sang Bok Lee is a pioneering scholar, clinical therapist, and author whose multi-decade career spans the United States and South Korea. He serves as the Academic Director of the Korea Positive Psychology Research Institute (KPPRI), an institution dedicated to integrating rigorous empirical sciences with spiritual care. Dr. Lee is widely recognized as the foundational developer of Clinical Neurotheology-an applied, prescriptive subfield that utilizes spiritual practices and biblical exegesis as direct, measurable instruments of biological and psychological healing [Lee, 2025; Newberg, 2018].

Dr. Lee's academic lineage is anchored in a prestigious Ph.D. program at Northwestern University in the interdepartmental fields of neuropsychology, congnitive neuroscience, and psychotherapy, during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dr. Lee subsequently advanced his clinical training through a post-doctoral residency fellowship of AAMFT-accredited program at the prestigious Family Institute, Northwestern University Medical School, and Dr. Lee has been served as a professor and advisor in the master and doctoral programs of psychology, neuroscience, and counseling graduate programs in the USA and South Korea.

Among his landmark contributions to the field is the development and validation of the Lee Sang Bok Cross-Cultural Anxiety Dream Scale (LSB-CADS), an objective diagnostic metric utilized by clinicians and hospital chaplains
to map hidden, cross-cultural trauma configurations and performance-driven shame in the unconscious mind [Lee, 2026b]. His foundational publications include his core neuroscience textbook, Dreaming Brain and fMRI, "Brain, Psychotherapy, and Consciousness Series", and his acclaimed whole-brain pastoral curriculum series, "Transforming Bible Study: Vol. 1. The Gospel of John" [Lee, 2025; Lee, 2026].

Today, Dr. Lee continues to bridge the gap between hard brain connectomics and the human soul from his academic bases in Seoul, Chicago, Irvine, California, equipping the next generation of pastors, clinicians, and graduate students with manualized, evidence-based tools for whole-person restoration.