Academic literature on the topic 'Primal therapy – Religious aspects – Christianity'

Background Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating disorder, and current treatments leave the majority of patients with unresolved symptoms. Moral injury (MI) may be one of the barriers that interfere with recovery from PTSD, particularly among current or former military service members. Objective Given the psychological and spiritual aspects of MI, an intervention that addresses MI using spiritual resources in addition to psychological resources may be particularly effective in treating PTSD. To date, there are no existing empirically based individual treatments for PTSD and MI that make explicit use of a patient’s spiritual resources, despite the evidence that spiritual beliefs/activities predict faster recovery from PTSD. Method To address this gap, we adapted Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), an empirically validated treatment for PTSD, to integrate clients’ spiritual beliefs, practices, values, and motivations. We call this treatment Spiritually Integrated CPT (SICPT). Results This article describes this novel manualized therapeutic approach for treating MI in the setting of PTSD for spiritual/religious clients. We provide a description of SICPT and a brief summary of the 12 sessions. Then, we describe a case study in which the therapist helps a client use his spiritual resources to resolve MI and assist in the recovery from PTSD. Conclusion SICPT may be a helpful way to reduce PTSD by targeting MI, addressing spiritual distress, and using a client’s spiritual resources. In addition to the spiritual version (applicable for those of any religion and those who do not identify as religious), we have also developed 5 religion-specific manuals (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism) for clients who desire a more religion-specific approach.

Doing a survey of the ministry of inner healing, one is arrested by three salient features: its pragmatic and correlative development, its lay orientation, and the inconsistent and naïve theoretical explanation of the phenomenon. Inner healing, or as it was first known, the healing of the memories, appears to have its roots with Agnes Sanford during the 1940's (Sandford 1982: 3-4). Over a period of time and through a series of events, Sanford experienced what she termed a healing of memories. After some reflection on her experiences she began to teach her views at the School of Pastoral Care started by her husband in 1958, at Camps Farthest Out (CFO), and at numerous churches and conferences.

The purpose of this study was to conduct a survey to identify the beliefs and practices of conservative Protestant parents, which assisted in clarifying the assertions in the current literature regarding conservative Protestant parenting. Additionally, this researcher sought to determine the applicability of child parent relationship therapy (CPRT), a filial therapy model based upon the principles of child centered play therapy, for conservative Protestant parents by ascertaining the need for cultural modifications. Beliefs and practices of conservative Protestants were measured using the Protestant Parenting Inventory (PPI), an original instrument developed through a series of focus groups and pilot testings. The population comprised 148 mothers and fathers from 4 Southern Baptist churches in and around the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Exploratory factor analysis was applied to the data in order to increase internal consistency estimates and percent of explained variance. Criterion coding of demographic data allowed a multiple regression analysis to determine which demographic variables were significant predictors of participant responses on the PPI. Descriptive statistics allowed the researcher to investigate the compatibility of conservative Protestants and CPRT. Results of this study both confirm and refute past findings regarding conservative Protestants. Results also revealed the need for some cultural modifications to CPRT in order to make it an acceptable parenting resource for conservative Protestant parents.

In Gestalplaytherapy there is a need for guidelines with a pastoral perspective for the child that is experiencing loss. This research is undertaken to set Gestaltplaytherapeutic guidelines with a pastoral perspective for the therapeutic intervention of the primary school child who is experiencing loss due to the death of a loved one. The study consulted relevant literature and compared the literature study with experience acquired in practice. The impact of the loss that the child is experiencing has an influence on the child as a whole. The researcher has found that the Christian child's experience of loss due to the death of a loved one is influenced greatly by the child's spiritual experience. For this reason it is necessary that Gestaltplaytherapy includes a pastoral approach within the therapeutic setting when working with a child experiencing loss due to the death of a loved one.
In Gestaltspelterapie is daar 'n leemte aan riglyne vanuit 'n pastorale perspektief wat die kind wat verlies ervaar kan begelei. Hierdie navorsing het ten doel om Gestalspelterapeutiese riglyne met 'n pastorale perspektief daar te stel vir die hantering van die laerskoolkind wat verlies ervaar as gevolg van die dood van 'n geliefde. Die studie ondersoek die kind se geestelike belewing van verlies deur middel van navorsing in relevante literatuur en vergelyk dit met praktiese ervaring wat opgedoen is in die praktyk. Die impak van die verlies wat die laerskoolkind ervaar as gevolg van die dood van 'n geliefde raak sy totale menswees. Die navorser het waargeneem dat die Christenkind se ervaring en verwerking van die dood van 'n geliefde ook deur sy geestelike belewing beinvloed word. Daarom is dit nodig dat die kind wat verlies ervaar ook op die pastorale vlak binne die Gestaltspelterapeutiese opset hanteer word.
Social work
M. Diac. (Play Therapy)

Nobody has a safeguard against loss. All people experience loss and the accompanying grief process during their lifetime. Grieving is a complex process. There are many different forms of grief. The grief process is understood in this study as identifiable moments rather than successive stages. The moments of grief are experienced on an unconscious level and vary in intensity. The role of the counsellor is to facilitate the process of bringing the experiences of grief into the conscious. This provides the counselee with the opportunity to work through his or her experience of loss. The contention of this study is that an existential experience of God’s presence can counteract the despair often associated with loss and the grief process. A method of story telling is used to bring hopeless stories into the empathic presence of God. Hope then becomes possible. A person’s experience of God is articulated by means of metaphors. Some of these are shared with the faith community as a whole, whereas other metaphors express the person’s individual experience of God. The different God images function in relation to one another. This study investigates how images of God can be harmful or helpful to the counselee in the grief process. The use of imagery assists in bringing the person’s perceptions of God to conscious awareness. By means of questions asked from a not-knowing position the counsellor helps to facilitate the telling of their story of grief, the story of God’s presence, and eventually their new story of hope for the future. The counselee experiences consolation, healing, liberation and a victory which becomes an existential reality in God’s presence. This pneumatic event is understood as God’s deliverance through Jesus Christ from a situation of hopelessness. This liberation takes place here-and-now. At the same time it is open toward the future.
Thesis (PhD (Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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關慧禎.
"2009年5月".
"2009 nian 5 yue".
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-54).
Abstracts in Chinese and English.
Guan Huizhen.
摘要
Chapter 第一章： --- 簡介及論文目的 --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- 引言 --- p.1
Chapter 1.2 --- 哀傷輔導的簡介 --- p.2
Chapter 1.3 --- 論文目的、方法論及結構 --- p.3
Chapter 第二章： --- 探討哀傷過程 --- p.4
Chapter 2.1 --- 引言 --- p.4
Chapter 2.2 --- 哀傷的徵狀 --- p.4
Chapter 2.3 --- 哀傷過程（Grief Process) 的討論 --- p.6
Chapter 2.4 --- 哀傷輔導方向的轉變 --- p.14
Chapter 2.5 --- 小結 --- p.16
Chapter 第三章： --- 文獻分析：哀傷輔導´ؤ´ؤ「釋放」（letting go) 與「延續性聯繫 (Continuing Bonds ) 的轉變及趨勢 --- p.17
Chapter 3.1 --- 引言 --- p.17
Chapter 3.2 1 --- 「釋放」及「延續性聯繫」的哀傷輔導的討論 --- p.17
Chapter 3.2.1 --- 「釋放」對「延續性聯繫」的批評 --- p.17
Chapter 3.2.2 --- 「釋放」的哀傷輔導理論與經驗硏究的差距 --- p.20
Chapter 3.2.3 --- 學者們的哀傷輔導理論之「釋放」部分的修改 --- p.21
Chapter 3.2.4 --- 延續性聯繋（Continuing Bonds ) 的硏究 --- p.23
Chapter 3.3 --- 小結 --- p.26
Chapter 第四章： --- 「延繫」在基督敎羣體中的實踐 --- p.27
Chapter 4.1 --- 引言 --- p.27
Chapter 4.2 --- 在基督敎羣體中發揮「延繫」 --- p.28
Chapter 4.2.1 --- 追憶及盼望中的「延繫」 --- p.28
Chapter 4.2.2 --- 在「聖徒相通」下與死者「延繫」 --- p.32
Chapter 4.2.3 --- 以「上帝的宣敎」(missio Dei)及「被上帝差遣者」的身分 與死者「延繫」 --- p.37
Chapter 4.3 --- 小結 --- p.42
Chapter 第五章： --- 總結 --- p.44
參考書目 --- p.48

The Gumuz society in Ethiopia has been neglected and almost forgotten by the previous rulers of Ethiopia. It is not surprising therefore to see that the majority of the population of Ethiopia have no knowledge about the Gumuz society. This society was not exposed to education until the arrival of the missionaries at the end of 1950's. When Christianity was introduced, the Church did not do enough in helping Christians to distinguish between the Gumuz traditional and the Christian marriage practices, the former which denies some male members of the community the possibility of getting married. Marriage is contracted by exchanging girls. Thus, unless a man has a sister to exchange he is not going to get married. There is an assumption that a man may get a girl from one of his extended families, but that is not always possible. He may or may not get a girl. Therefore the man will end up without getting married. The introduction of Christianity made it possible for every member of the Gumuz people to get married by allowing them to marry from the neighbouring tribes. However, it introduced another side effect. Christians were not able to differentiate between the Gumuz traditional and Christian marriage practices. This dissertation studies the traditional and the Christian marriage practices of the Gumuz society and of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (the EECMY). According to the Gumuz society, marriage is believed to be (Okka) God given. To get married is to obey okka, to accept what God has given, and to have as many children as possible in order to increase the population of the Gumuz tribe. Failure to get married is a crime against traditional beliefs and practices. Furthermore, this dissertation provides the way the Gumuz society understands divorce. Among the Gumuz society divorce does not concern only one family. Both family members and extended families are affected. Since marriage is performed as indicated earlier on by exchanging girls, if a person divorces his wife he has to expect that his sister will divorce her husband which will disturb the whole extended family relationships. Realizing the risk, every married persons in the Gumuz society is conscious about divorce. This attitude brings the rate of divorce to a low level. This dissertation sees the need for counselling and appeals for a therapeutic approach by putting emphasis on contextual family therapy, a therapeutic process which is constructed with maximal concern for its relevance to the cultural context in which it occurs. For example, the problems related to exchanging girls, marriage between the Gumuz and the neighbouring tribes, the issue of divorce, and so forth, are not problems which can be discussed only with individuals or a family member, it needs the inclusion of extended families as well as multigenerational processes. This therapeutic process is capable of providing a contextual approach by looking at the system of the family. I recommend the therapists to have a grounding in the general principle of family life and to get familiar with the way families operate as a social system. The dissertation hopes to create awareness among therapists with basic theories of family systems which enable them to get knowledge of a causes for dysfunctional behaviour within the families, and to equip them with therapeutic skill. This is paramount.
Thesis (M.Th.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1996.

Afrikaans: Hierdie proefskrif wil vanuit navorsing met "n postmoderne, pastoraal-narratiewe aanslag iets vertel rondom seksueel-verwante geheime. In hoofstuk 1 val die soeklig op 'n verduideliking van die weg waarlangs die navorsing aangepak is. Deur gebruik te maak van die ABDCE-skryfformule van "n fiksieskrywer, is ruimte geskep waarbinne narratief-gebaseerde navorsing gedoen kon word. Die navorsing word derhalwe langs die weg van aksieverhale (Action), agtergrondsbegrippe (Background), die verdere ontwikkeling van die navorsing (Development), die klimaks (Climax) en einde (Ending) ontwikkel. In hoofstuk 2 word enkele aksie-stories rondom geheime uitgebeeld. Die verhaal van Tim, asook verhale en gesprekke uit Internet-gesprekslyste en verhale uit die media met besondere klem op hedendaagse kletsprogramme, word hier weergegee. Hoofstuk 3 bied 'n agtergrond van bepaalde perspektiewe rondom aspekte soos "language games", paralogie, dekonstruksie, postmodernisme, sosiaal¬konstruksionisme en narratiewe terapie. Betekenisse wat ons handelinge lei en bepaalde vrae wat aan ons praktiese denke lewe gee, word hierin uitgelig. Hoofstuk 4 bied "n dik, breedvoerige beskrywing van menslike seksualiteit. Verhale en perspektiewe rondom seksualiteit, "eksternalisering", seksuele mites in die samelewing asook 'n beskrywing van seksualiteit vanuit die etiese, Bybelse, na¬Bybelse, sistemiese en postmoderne perspektiewe word gegee. Hoofstuk 5 bied "n dik, bree beskrywing van die gesin waarin aangetoon word dat die heIe gesin, die groter gesin sowel as die gemeenskap by geheimhouding betrokke kan wees. Perspektiewe uit die Ou en Nuwe Testament word toegelig en daar word teen verafgoding van die ideaIe gesin gewaarsku. Verbond, skepping, verlossing en pneumatologie word as 'n Bybelse benadering tot die gesinslewe geïdentifiseer. Eienskappe van die moderne gesin sowel as die sogenaamde "tweede familie" word bespreek. Die verhale van Koning Dawid en Isak se gesinne dui op die bevryding van die verlammende effek wat die verlede met sy foute op die huidige gesinslewe het. In hoofstuk ses word aandag gegee aan 'n perspektief op seksueel-verwante geheime. Die geheime seksuele wereld van adolessente word ondersoek en aandag word gegee aan geheime temas wat mag voorkom. Intensiewe aandag word ook gegee aan die posisie van die terapeut in gevalle waar geheimhouding in terapeutiese sessies ter sprake kom. Hoofstuk sewe bied 'n samevattende kritiese refleksie op die navorsing, enkele gevolgtrekkings word gemaak vanuit my eie ervaring rondom die bepaalde navorsing. English: This dissertation attempts to relate something on sexual-related secrets from a postmodern, pastoral-narrative perspective. In chapter one the focus is on an explanation of the manner in which the research is done. By using the ABDCE-formula of an author of fiction, a space is created in which narrative-based research could be done. The research develops through action stories, background concepts, further development, climax and the end. Action stories concerning secrets characterize chapter two. The story of Tim, as well as stories and conversations from Internet discussion lists and stories from the media with the accent on current chat shows are shared. Chapter three supplies a background of certain perspectives on aspects like language games, paralogy, deconstruction, postmodernism, social constructionism and narrative therapy. Meanings guiding our actions and certain questions which gives life to our practical thoughts, are highlighted. Chapter four provides a thick description of human sexuality. Stories and perspectives on sexuality, externalization, sexual myths in the community as well as a description of sexuality from ethical, Biblical, post-Biblical, systemic and postmodern views are given. Chapter five gives a thick description of the family and shows that the entire family, the larger family as well as the community could be involved in secrecy. Perspectives from the Old and New Testament are shared and a warning against idolisation of the ideal family is made. Covenant, creation, salvation and pneumatology are identified as a Biblical approach to family life. The modern family, its characteristics and the so-called "second family" are under discussion. The stories of King David's as well as Isaac's families bring deliverance of the paralysing effect that the past with its mistakes might have on family life in its present form. Attention is focused on a perspective on sexual-related secrets in chapter six. The secret sexual world of the adolescent is investigated and special attention is paid to secret themes which might occur. Intensive attention is also paid to the position of the therapist regarding secrecy in therapeutic sessions. Chapter seven gives a summarized critical reflection on the research. This includes my conclusions from own experience gained in the process.
Thesis (PhD (Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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This exploration involves the influence of a system of patriarchy on both women and men in an inclusive way within business context. The work attempts to move away from dualisms that stereotypically define gender according to patriarchy. The challenge of this work is to find ways of describing women and men that is less defined by gender and more about our similarities as human beings. It has been suggested in the research that the business environment is still a male dominated environment. It is therefore the intention of this work to encourage ways of defining ourselves that one person does not hold benefit one over another in an abusive way. As the system of patriarchy has been endorsed by the church, the research considers how the pastoral therapist may be relevant to the business environment.
Practical Theology
M. Th - Specialising in Pastoral Therapy