Exploring virtue ethics in psychodynamic psychotherapy: latent changes in humility, affect regulation, symptoms and well‐being

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Jankowski ◽  
Laura E. Captari ◽  
Steven J. Sandage
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Well Being

Humility and Relational Spirituality as Predictors of Well-Being among Christian Seminary Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 009164712198896
Author(s):  
Elizabeth G. Ruffing ◽  
Dottie Oleson ◽  
James Tomlinson ◽  
Seong Hyun Park ◽  
Steven J. Sandage
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Differentiation Of Self ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Relational Spirituality ◽  
Management Implications ◽  
Independent Contribution ◽  
Seminary Students

The present study investigated the unique contributions of relational spirituality and humility factors to seminary students’ eudaimonic well-being in a diverse sample ( n = 111) of urban seminary students. Hypotheses were developed in conversation with this research on humility, seminary student formation, and virtue ethics. As hypothesized, the relational spirituality factors of differentiation of self and quest exploration each made a significant independent contribution in predicting students’ well-being over and above impression management. In addition, humility-cultivating practices and dispositional humility were modestly correlated and each made a significant independent contribution in predicting well-being over and above relational spirituality factors and impression management. Implications for future research and for seminary student formation are discussed.

The Virtues of Justice: Toward a Moral and Jurisprudential Psychology

2021 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2110668
Author(s):  
Christopher Williams ◽  
Bruce Arrigo
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Offender Therapy ◽  
Psychological Structure ◽  
The Common ◽  
Over Time

Within the theoretical literature on crime control and offender therapy, little has been written about the importance of virtue ethics in the experience of human justice and in the evolution of the common good. As a theory of being, the aretaic tradition extols eudemonic existence (i.e., excellence, flourishing) as a relational habit of developing character that is both practiced and embodied over time. What this implies is that virtue justice depends on a set of assumptions and predispositions—both moral and jurisprudential—whose meanings are essential to comprehending its psychological structure. This article sets out to explore several themes that our integral to our thesis on the virtues (i.e., the being) of justice. We reclaim justice’s aretaic significance, critique the common conflation of justice and law, discuss how the dominant legalistic conception of justice is rooted in a particular view of human nature, suggest how justice might be more properly grounded in natural moral sensibilities, and provide a tentative explication of the psychological character of justice as a twofold moral disposition. Given this exploratory commentary, we conclude by reflecting on how individual well-being, system-wide progress, and transformative social change are both possible and practical, in the interest of promoting the virtues of justice within the practice of crime control and offender therapy.

scholarly journals An Explorative Study of Qualities in Interactive Processes with Children and Their Parents in Music Therapy during and after Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Medicines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Lena Uggla ◽  
Katarina Mårtenson Blom ◽  
Lars Bonde ◽  
Britt Gustafsson ◽  
Björn Wrangsjö
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ◽  
Stem Cell Transplantation ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Cell Transplantation ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem Cell ◽  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem ◽  
Related Quality

Background: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an established treatment for severe disorders of the pediatric hematopoietic system. However, there is a need for supportive interventions due to physiological and psychological strain. Music therapy is used in health care to help patients through difficult experiences and enable well-being. Our previous randomized studies showed significantly reduced heart rates four to eight hours after intervention as well as increased health-related quality of life. Methods: The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the participants’ and parents’ own experiences of the interactive processes during the music therapy intervention. Six families were included. The data collection used collaborative research interviews. An independent psychologist facilitated the interviews with the children, the parents, and the music therapist and also performed the analysis. Results: Three main themes emerged: experiences of competency and recognition of self, interactive affect regulation as change potential, and importance of the therapeutic relationship. Conclusions: For the participants, music therapy developed into a significant and helpful experience, an important ingredient in coping with and managing the treatment period at the hospital.

scholarly journals Environmental Strategies of Affect Regulation and Their Associations With Subjective Well-Being

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalevi M. Korpela ◽  
Tytti Pasanen ◽  
Veera Repo ◽  
Terry Hartig ◽  
Henk Staats ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Environmental Strategies

scholarly journals Self-Control and Affect Regulation Styles Predict Anxiety Longitudinally in University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Powers ◽  
Hannah Moshontz ◽  
Rick H. Hoyle
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Cohort Design ◽  
The Relationship

The performance and well-being of university students is influenced by many factors, including self-control and affect regulation, but little is known about how these factors relate. We therefore analyzed data from a multi-site research project that assessed trait self-control, affect regulation, and anxiety in a longitudinal cohort design (N = 1314) using structural equation modeling. We specifically tested hypotheses that trait self-control, assessed upon entering school, would predict anxiety outcomes during students’ third year, and this relationship would be mediated by affect regulation styles (adaptive or maladaptive). We found that greater self-control did predict lower third-year anxiety, even after accounting for anxiety levels upon entering school. Furthermore, this relationship was partially mediated by maladaptive affect regulation, where students with greater self-control endorsed less use of maladaptive coping strategies (e.g., denial, self-blame), which in turn predicted less subsequent anxiety. In contrast, adaptive coping strategies did not mediate the relationship between trait self-control and anxiety. These findings highlight trait self-control as an important predictor of anxiety, and they identify maladaptive affect regulation as a target for interventions to promote student well-being and success.

Ethical Consequentialism

Philosophy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Mulgan
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moral Evaluation ◽  
Classical Utilitarianism

Consequentialism ties moral evaluation to the value of consequences or outcomes. In contemporary moral philosophy, consequentialism is typically contrasted with deontology and virtue ethics. Different consequentialists offer different accounts of value, but all give a prominent place to the promotion of human well-being. Consequentialism can evaluate acts, rules, motives, or political institutions. This entry focuses on contemporary consequentialism, but also explores its roots in classical utilitarianism.

Tell me who you are, and I will tell you how you feel?

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Kämpfe ◽  
Kristin Mitte
Keyword(s):  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mood Regulation ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Mediator Role ◽  
The Relationship

Surprisingly little is known about the suggested mediator role of emotional intelligence and mood‐regulation regarding the relationship between personality and subjective well‐being. Three independent samples were administered to investigate whether EI and mood‐regulation served as mediators for subjective well‐being beyond personality. Using structural equation modelling, the authors demonstrated the superior role of extraversion and neuroticism in explaining satisfaction with life, happiness, positive and negative affect. Consistent mediation effects were found for the trait meta‐mood of repair. Contrary to expectations, the remaining variables (attention, clarity, self‐efficacy of affect regulation) did not mediate the relationship between personality and well‐being; neither did they show substantial incremental validity in explaining variance in SWB. Results are discussed with regard to methodological issues and practical implications. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) Therapy

2021 ◽  
pp. 502-508
Author(s):  
Sarah Hales ◽  
Gary Rodin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Symptom Management ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Relational Attachment

Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) is a brief, semistructured individual intervention designed to alleviate distress and to promote psychological growth in individuals with advanced disease. This intervention emerged from a longitudinal program of research and from the theoretical traditions of relational, attachment, and existential theory. Through a process that supports affect regulation, attachment security, and reflective functioning, CALM focuses on four content domains: (1) symptom management and communication with health care providers; (2) changes in self and relations with close others; (3) spiritual well-being, sense of meaning, and purpose; and (4) preparing for the future, sustaining hope, and facing mortality. Caregivers are invited to one or more CALM sessions, during which communication, relational strengths and disruptions, and hopes and fears related to the present and to the future are addressed. Qualitative research has shown that the structure of CALM provides a safe place for cancer patients to explore their fears, to be seen in human terms, and to face the challenges and threats of advancing disease. Quantitative research has shown that compared to usual care, it leads to significantly greater reduction in and prevention of depressive symptoms and improvement in death preparation. Therapist skill in the delivery of CALM is developed through didactic and experiential workshops and by ongoing supervision.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Infection Control: Philosophical Frameworks

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1077-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles S. Bryan ◽  
Theresa J. Call ◽  
Kevin C. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Ethical Frameworks ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Individual

Recent developments that are relevant to the ethics of infection control include the patient safety movement, the appearance of new diseases (notably, severe acute respiratory syndrome) that pose threats to healthcare workers, data confirming the suspicion that infection control measures such as isolation may compromise patient care, and, in philosophy, renewed interest in virtue ethics and communitarianism. We review general ethical frameworks and relevant vocabulary for infection control practitioners and hospital epidemiologists. Frameworks for the ethics of infection control resemble those of public health more than those of clinical medicine but embrace elements of both. The optimum framework, we suggest, takes into account a virtue-based communitarianism. The virtue ethics movement stresses the need to consider not only rules and outcomes but also the character of the individual(s) involved. Communitarianism emphasizes the well-being and values of local communities, best determined by shared, democratic decision making among stakeholders. Brief discussions of 15 consecutive cases illustrate the extent to which the daily practice of infection control poses problems heavily freighted with ethical overtones.

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