Pastoral Psychology

1988 ◽  
Vol 152 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
Louis Marteau
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Pastoral Psychology ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
Historical Resources

Pastoral psychology is the application of modern psychology to the ancient ministry of the pastoral care exercised within the various Christian Churches. Today this care draws on insights and techniques from three primary sources: contemporary understandings of human personality and interpersonal relationships from the human sciences (especially psychology); therapeutic methods from one or more of the current counselling and psychotherapeutic approaches; and biblical, theological, and historical resources from the Judeo-Christian heritage.

Pastoral Psychology: Group and Symbol

1983 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-130
Author(s):  
Joachim Scharfenberg
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Pastoral Psychology ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
European Conference

Offers a personal reflection on the European Conference of Pastoral Care and Counselling held in Lublin, Poland, in 1981; and suggests how the depthful meanings experienced there helped to define the theme, “Story Telling and Symbol in Pastoral Care,” for the Internation Conference to be held in San Francisco in 1983.

Implementation Issues in a Pastoral Care and Career Guidance Program

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ong Teck Chin
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Whole School ◽  
Guidance Program ◽  
Chinese School ◽  
Personal Skills

Anglo-Chinese School founded in 1886, was selected by the Ministry of Education in 1988 to be one of the 17 pilot schools in Singapore to evolve and implement its own Pastoral Care and Career Guidance (PCCG) system, incorporating both structure and program. A horizontal PCCG structure was formulated and a whole school approach was adopted. The school believes that young people in our society need to be better educated, trained for adult life and provided with a range of opportunities, information and guidance to enable them to make sound, considered decisions upon leaving school. Detailed lesson plans on PCCG topics covering five key areas — self awareness, personal skills, interpersonal relationships, health and hygiene and career guidance were written and used during formal classroom time. Additional out-of-school programs called co-curricular activities reinforced the formal contact time. This article explores issues associated with rationale, implementation, organisation, program, integration of PCCG, resources, staff training and the manner in which PCCG successfully supports the total school.

scholarly journals The Double Character of Cuban Protestantism and Philanthropy

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Jamie Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Voluntary Associations ◽  
Extreme Case ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Double Character

In Cuba and the United States, Protestant institutions exist that are both reflective and nonreflective about their culture’s influence on belief and practice. The case of Cuba sheds light on how Christian churches and voluntary associations operate in an authoritarian regime. Despite the tension and enmity that have typified Cuba’s geopolitical relationship with the United States since the colonial days, cross-cultural Christian philanthropic partnerships exist. The “doble carácter” (double character) of Cuban Protestant churches has grown out of both collaboration with, and resistance to U.S.-style evangelicalism (Arce Valentín 2016). Adaptations of liberation theology, adopted among Cuban Christians, provide an influential counterweight to the mighty Western theological and philanthropic tradition (González 2012). The nature of this engagement influences Cuban civil society, the survival of the Cuban regime, and provides an extreme case for cross-cultural philanthropy worldwide. This socio-historical account utilizes the data collected from personal interviews with Cuban Protestant leaders, primary sources found in the library at the San Cristobal Presbyterian Seminary and Cuban theological journals, and a qualitative analysis of literature on Cuba, Protestants, missions, philanthropy, nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and civil society.

Pastoral Psychology and Care in the People's Republic of China

1986 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-380
Author(s):  
Howard Clinebell
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Pastoral Psychology ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
The Church

Reports on a two-week study tour of The People's Republic of China designed to learn about care-giving practices in the church and the wider Chinese society and to identify possible ways of increasing collaboration between Chinese and Western care-givers. Offers observations and opinions on the historic and contemporary differences between the two cultures in a variety of areas— e.g. modes of doing pastoral care, shame versus guilt cultures, social justice and treatment of women, holistic tendencies in thinking—and opines that despite wide differences there are good possibilities for future communication and collaboration between the pastoral care deliverers of the two societies.

scholarly journals Lost and found

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
Brown Bavusile Maaba
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Lost And Found

In this paper, the author demonstrates that there is a range of primary sources on the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa’s foremost non-teaching social science research body and its predecessor, the South African National Bureau for Educational and Social Research, lodged in the country’s conventional and unconventional archives. The Central Records Department at Wits University is an example of the latter. Initially, scholars believed that the bulk of primary sources on the institution were not available. This has greatly affected the writing of the institution’s history and as a result it remains largely undocumented. This paper demonstrates that raw material on the institution can be and has been located through systematic research in various depositories around South Africa. The paper gives an overview of materials on the institution lodged in different archives and describes typical examples. Such primary sources can greatly assist scholars with a research interest in the HSRC and its predecessor, the Bureau.

PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL – BEING CONTENT IN TODAY’S PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES

2015 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Ēriks Kalvāns
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Functional Aspects

<p>Psychological well-being is a phenomenon that significantly affects an individual's basic functional aspects: everyday sense of self, personal cognitive sphere, interpersonal relationships and professional success. Because of the relatively small theoretical and empirical research, there is a number of psychological well-being concept operationalization difficulties and validate the empirical study of instruments deficit. For these reasons, acquires relevance of sychological well-being of the phenomenon of theoretical and empirical research. This ublication reflects the main approaches to the treatment of psychological well-being of the phenomenon of modern psychology.</p>

Islamic Psychology and the Call for Islamization of Modern Psychology

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Abbas Abdul Razak And Nik Ahmad Hisham
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
Islamic Psychology ◽  
Nature Development ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Muslim Scholars

The shifting of paradigms in modern psychology has left modern men in a state of confusion on the issues pertaining to what should be the paramount concern of psychology and in the proper understanding on the topic of human nature. In a contrastive manner Islamic psychology which has been promoted by Muslim scholars alongside with the process of Islamization of knowledge and education, has its roots in the philosophical ideas of early Muslim scholars. Its resurgence, which started some two decades ago, is seen as an initiative to introduce Islamic understanding on man to the conflicting ideas prevalent in modern psychology. Its approach, which is mainly philosophical in nature, goes back to the ideas on man mentioned in the two primary sources of Islam, the Qur’an and ×adÊth. Islamic psychology with its comprehensive ideas on human nature has been seen by Muslim scholars as a new perspective in psychology that can fill in the lacunae present in the modern psychological thoughts on man, and clears the mist that surrounds most Western theories on man. This paper represents an attempt to analyze and also synthesize Western psychology and Islamic psychology in terms of their nature, development, contributions, and problems.

The Beginning of Stress Reduction: Creating a Code of Conduct for How Team Members Treat Each other

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norton L. Armour
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Department Of Transportation ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Code Violations ◽  
Primary Focus

Workers and supervisors at the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) have been under high levels of stress for a number of reasons and are under constant pressure to produce more with fewer employees. Under this tension, the daily interpersonal relationships between co-workers and between supervisors and workers have in many cases broken down, eroding trust and respect. Increasingly, communications are non-responsive, negative, or reactive. In an attempt to tap the positive creative energy of workers and supervisors to bring about a less stressful, more productive atmosphere, a facilitated teambuilding exercise has been implemented to develop their own code of personal conduct. “How we treat each other on a daily basis” and “How we want to be treated” are the primary focus of the exercise. The article covers the three aims of the exercise, the structure of, and functions performed by MnDOT, and some of the primary sources of tensions. The three stages of the code exercise are described along with a brief description of each stage. The voluntary nature of the code is stressed as providing a safe way, through peer pressure, openness and a mutual goal for a better work atmosphere, to call attention to code violations.

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