Keyness and Collocation Distinctions in How Latter-day Saint Communities Relate to God: Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Health Professionals ◽

Multicultural Competence ◽

Corpus Linguistics ◽

Latter Day Saints ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Book Of Mormon ◽

Reference Corpus ◽

Multicultural competence includes understanding how spirituality informs client worldview. This corpus linguistics study examines the worldview of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through analysis of the Book of Mormon as a sacred text. Keywords of the Book of Mormon text are identified by using the Hebrew Bible and New Testament as reference corpuses, and the Book of Mormon is used as a reference corpus to identify biblical keywords as well. Collocates of deity within the Book of Mormon text are identified and examined. Limitations and implications for research and practice are discussed.

The Topic Structure of the Book of Mormon: Worldview Insights for Mental Health Professionals

10.31234/osf.io/yte72 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Callister ◽

Cass Dykeman

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽

Topic Model ◽

Latter Day Saints ◽

Book Of Mormon ◽

Research Questions ◽

Topic Structure ◽

This study examined the spiritually informed worldview of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through exploration of the topical structure of the Book of Mormon sacred text. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) was used to identify the latent topical structure of the Book of Mormon. The two research questions were (RQ1): What is the topical structure of the Book of Mormon?, and (RQ2): How do the level of topics vary by individual subcorpuses within the Book of Mormon? This effort produced a 30- topic model. The levels of 30 topics among the sections of the Book of Mormon were detailed. Implications, limitations, and suggestions for further study were presented. In addition, a discussion on how the worldview structures produced by this study can inform the practice of mental health professionals takes place.

Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Mental Health Research and Practice

Journal of Humanistic Psychology ◽

10.1177/0022167818763862 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 401-427 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sarah R. Kamens ◽

Lisa Cosgrove ◽

Shannon M. Peters ◽

Nev Jones ◽

Elizabeth Flanagan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Health Research ◽

Paradigm Shift ◽

Best Practice ◽

Mental Health Research ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Alternative Systems ◽

Standards And Guidelines

Diagnostic nomenclatures have been central to mental health research and practice since the turn of the 20th century. In recent years, an increasing number of mental health professionals have proposed that a paradigm shift in diagnosis is inevitable. The Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Mental Health Research and Practice are intended to serve as a reference for the development of scientifically sound and ethically principled diagnostic nomenclatures and descriptive alternatives. The Standards and Guidelines are divided into four sections that address the purposes; development; type, content, and structure; and scientific grounding of nomenclatures and alternative systems. They are intended to represent best practice in the classification and description of emotional distress for multidisciplinary mental health professionals.

Delivering Mental Health Services to Ethnic Minorities: Ethical Considerations

Journal of Psychology and Theology ◽

10.1177/009164718601400102 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 15-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jay M. Uomoto

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Health Service Delivery ◽

Human Action ◽

Mental Health Needs ◽

Ethical Considerations ◽

Mental Health Service Delivery ◽

Clinical psychology is currently seeing an increased awareness of ethnic minority issues in mental health service delivery. The Christian psychological literature however has been largely silent on these issues. Posited are responses by Christian mental health professionals and the church that address the mental health needs of ethnic minorities. Theological input that informs ethical human response includes Barth's call for ethical human action based upon the commands of God, the neighborly love ethic, and Jesus’ model of ministry. Roles and recommendations are proposed for mental health professionals and the church in their efforts to deliver services to ethnic minorities.

Mental health in the kingdom of God

Theology ◽

10.1177/0040571x20910700 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 123 (3) ◽

pp. 163-171

Author(s):

Christopher C. H. Cook

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Disorders ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Church Of England ◽

Kingdom Of God ◽

Psychological Variables ◽

Marginalized Groups ◽

Theological Understanding ◽

Mental disorders are both common and disabling worldwide. They affect beliefs, emotions, identity and relationships in such a way as to impact upon the very essence of human experience. They are associated with stigma and prejudice, and they disproportionately affect those who are poor and those who belong to marginalized groups within society. Increasing attention has been given in recent years to the importance of spirituality for mental health, but in research it is impossible to distinguish between spirituality and the psychological variables that it purports to influence. Those things that are identified as being the concerns of mental health professionals overlap significantly with the concerns of religion. This overlap is examined here in relationship to the Synoptic Gospel accounts of the mission, ministry and teaching of Jesus. It is proposed that Jesus’ teaching on the kingdom of God was centrally concerned with things that we now consider to be the domain of mental health. For Christians, mental health may be understood as the ability to fulfil vocation within the kingdom of God. A more critical theological understanding of mental health is needed to better inform the mission of the Church of England.

Homosexuality: The Behavioral Sciences and the Church

Journal of Psychology and Theology ◽

10.1177/009164718901700302 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 213-225 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Stanton L. Jones ◽

Don E. Workman

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Behavioral Science ◽

Science Literature ◽

Behavioral Sciences ◽

Current State ◽

Homosexual Orientation ◽

The Church ◽

Condition B

Christian mental health professionals are frequently asked to comment on the issue of homosexuality and the church, and yet few are up-to-date on the current research concerning the questions they are asked. We raise four basic questions which might be asked of the Christian psychologist by the church and discuss the best answers to those questions available from the behavioral science literature. The major questions examined are: (a) Is homosexuality an intrinsically psychopathological condition? (b) Is the homosexual orientation caused by factors beyond a person's voluntary control? (c) Is change to heterosexuality impossible for the homosexual? and (d) Is the expression of erotic sexuality essential to psychological wholeness? Christian psychologists are urged to exercise caution when they attempt to articulate “consensus views” on any of these questions, as the current state of our knowledge about homosexuality is much more rudimentary than is usually acknowledged, and may have less proper impact on the ethical deliberations of the church than may be commonly thought.