Covenant Psychology: CDM: Covenant Diagnosis Manual

The Covenant Diagnosis Manual (CDM) — First Edition
A clinical atlas for naming thrones, training bodies, and measuring fruit—in the household, the clinic, and the church.

Most handbooks catalog symptoms. The CDM names worship—because a human being is first a worshiper in covenant, not a stack of behaviors. This first edition gathers the working language of Covenant Diagnostics and sets a new clinical standard: diagnosis is theological before it is behavioral or biological, and every plan binds Christ-Conformity (deliverance, renunciation, restitution, replacement liturgy) to Terrain Reset (sleep/light law, autonomic downshift, fueling cadence, recovery) on one weekly page.

What makes the CDM different?
• Identifies the enthroned lord behind similar symptom clusters—e.g., Mammon (security/wealth), Baʿal (power/tyrant appeasement), Aphrodite (erotic desirability), Molech (sacrifice of the vulnerable), Asherah (productivity/fertility-image), Dionysus (intoxication/ecstasy), Nebo (omniscience/prediction), Leviathan (pride/twist), Chronos (urgency/time-sovereignty).
• Each chapter follows a single, clinic-ready template: definition and worship etiology; phenomenology and terrain phenotype; diagnostic criteria with exclusions and specifiers; differentials; a Two-Column Treatment Map (deliverance and terrain); measurement and household verification; governance and safety; staged progression; brief case suite; working code example.
• Treats the household as clinic. Plans include secrecy bans, Sabbath/table law, device governance, and a formal Household Support specifier (HS-0…4).
• Measures transformation by witnessed fruit, not mood alone. Outcomes are standardized: Obedience Rate (OR), Liturgy Consistency (LC), Repentance Latency (RL), Fruit Index (FI), and Terrain Composite (TCS), plus chapter-specific signals (for example, secrecy = 0 in APH; no dashboards on Sabbath in NBO; first-presence blocks met in MOL).

Inside you’ll find:
• The full CD Entry Template and code string legend for fast, consistent charting.
• Faculty Maps (Mind, Will, Heart, Imagination, Spirit, Body) with arrow vectors to capture dominance and collapse at a glance.
• Terrain Phenotype tags (SLP, HPA, GLY, DOP, HORM, BILE, GI, ANS, REC, Inflam, OCUL, CIR) with ordinal severity to guide capacity-building.
• Named-Idol chapters (IDL subset) for clear, testable diagnoses where allegiance—not merely affect—drives the disorder.
• Two-Column Weekly Pages that marry repentance to physiology so obedience becomes possible in the body the patient actually lives in.
• Governance and Safety standards: informed consent, pastoral covering, medical partnership when indicated, mandatory reporting where the vulnerable are harmed, and non-spectacle rules for deliverance work.

Who is this for?
• Certified Covenant Psychologists (CCP) and supervised trainees working within Covenant Diagnostics.
• Pastors, clinicians, and care teams operating under CCP oversight who need shared language for diagnosis, treatment, and verification.
• Households partnering in care plans that require witnessed practices (Sabbath, table, secrecy bans, restitution, replacement liturgies).

Who is this not for?
• This work is not a self-help guide and not for self-diagnosis. It is a professional clinical atlas intended only for use by Certified Covenant Psychologists or by trainees under documented CCP supervision. Do not alter or discontinue medical care based on this manual. In emergencies, call 911 or your local equivalent