What is the APS Profile?

The APS Profile is a computerized report created by Drs. Richard and Phyllis Arno of the National Christian Counselors Association that deal with the inner person rather than outer manifestations or problems. In 1983, Drs. Arno began conducting research and developing a scripturally based therapeutic procedure that would produce effective, positive, and more immediate results for those in need of godly guidance and counsel.

 

The Arno Profile System does not measure a person’s behavior; it identifies a person’s intrinsic, inborn, God-given temperament. Who God created us to be in our temperament and who we have become through learned behaviors can be entirely different. Temperament therapy seeks to discover who we truly are and find ways to become the person God intends us to be – our authentic self – rather than the person we have learned to be --- the masked self.

The National Christian Counselors Association (NCCA) selected the FIRO-B, which was developed by Dr. Will Schutz, as its initial measuring device or questionnaire. The NCCA named its analysis procedure the Temperament Analysis Profile (TAP), which reveals the "hidden problems" that typically take the counselor seven or eight sessions to identify.

In November 2000, the NCCA changed the name from Temperament Analysis Profile to Arno Profile System (APS) after the developers.