Journal of Pastoral Counseling articles from January 1 2007

Journal of Pastoral Counseling archives from January 1 2007

Introduction.
January 1, 2007... Lance Christian Smith provides us with an article conceptualizing the constructs of spirituality and religion. While these are conveniently seen as separate, particularly in Western thought, the distinction between the two notions is...

Conceptualizing spirituality and religion: where we've come from, where we are, and where we are going.(Report)
January 1, 2007... Abstract Within the recent empirical and theoretical literature regarding spirituality and religion, an onomastic and conceptual polarization between the constructs of spirituality and religion exists. This article presents and examines...

The dark side of religion, spirituality and the moral emotions: shame, guilt, and negative religiosity as markers for life dissatisfaction.(Report)
January 1, 2007... Abstract This study examines the relationship among levels of spirituality, religiosity, shame, and guilt on subjective well-being. A convenience sample that included graduate and undergraduate students (N = 176; mean age = 37) completed...

Islam and counseling: models of practice in Muslim communal life.(Report)
January 1, 2007... Abstract This article examines the intersection of Islam and counseling. It argues that interventions comparable to Western counseling methods are evident in Islam and can be located in three sources of Islamic doctrine and practice....

I/Thou-I/Spirit: Martin Buber and the spiritual life of the infant.(Report)
January 1, 2007... Abstract Martin Buber's philosophical anthropology is presented as a framework for understanding the spiritual life of the infant. To Buber's I/Thou and I/It attitudes toward the world a third attitude is proposed, I/Spirit. I/Spirit is...

Envisioning new possibilities: requests for pastoral counseling by persons enrolled in a SAMHSA addiction recovery program.(Substance Abuse and Mental Health Association)(Report)
January 1, 2007... For over a decade, I have been an evaluator of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Association (SAMHSA) funded intervention and prevention programs targeting urban Latino populations. During more recent years, I have become increasingly...

The efficient cognitive process of moral realism and its connection to evolutionary psychology and neurobiology.(Report)
January 1, 2007... Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them, the starry heavens above and the moral law within. Immanuel Kant The human moral sense, it will be argued to...