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- From Single to Serious: Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses
by College students hook up and have sex. That is what many students expect to happen during their time at university--it is part of growing up and navigating the relationship scene on most American campuses today. But what do you do when you're a student at an evangelical university? Students at these schools must negotiate a barrage of religiously imbued undercurrents that impact how they think about relationships, in addition to how they experience and evaluate them. As they work to form successful unions, students at evangelical colleges balance sacred ideologies of purity, holiness, and godliness, while also dealing with more mainstream notions of popularity, the online world, and the appeal of sexual intimacy. In From Single to Serious, Dana M. Malone shines a light on friendship, dating, and, sexuality, in both the ideals and the practical experiences of heterosexual students at U. S. evangelical colleges. She examines the struggles they have in balancing their gendered and religious presentations of self, the expectations of their campus community, and their desire to find meaningful romantic relationships.Publication Date: 2018-01-31 - Psychology and Spiritual Formation in Dialogue
by Rescarch into the nature of moral and spiritual change has revived in recent years, in the worlds of psychology on the one hand and of theology and philosophy on the other. But psychology and spiritual formation draw upon distinct bodies of research and theory grounded in different methodologies, resulting in conversation that has suffered from a lack of interdisciplinary cross-pollin ation. Rooted in a year-long discussion held by Biola University's Center for Christian Thought (CCT), this volume bridges the gaps caused by professional specialization among psychology, theology, and philosophy. Each essay was forged out of an integrative discussion among theologians, psychologists, philosophers. New Testament scholars, educators, and pastors around the CCT seminar table. Topics that emerged included relational and developmental spirituality moral virtue ad judgment, and suffering and trauma. Psychology and Spiritual Formation in Dialogue speaks across disciplinary divides, fostering fruitful conversation for fresh insights into the nature and dynamics of personal spiritual change. Book jacket.Publication Date: 2019-01-22 - Understanding Sexual Abuse
by "It is said that the true test of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members." As many as one in four girls and one in six boys experience sexual abuse during childhood, and it's estimated that as many as half of the incidents are never reported. This means that countless millions in our societies, both children and adults, carry this complex, often hidden pain. What does the path to healing look like for survivors? And how can ministry leaders, pastors, and counselors best help them as they walk this difficult road? Drawing on both his own experience and his wife's experience as survivors of childhood sexual abuse, minister and lecturer Tim Hein offers his expertise, practical guidance, and empathy--for both ministry leaders and survivors themselves. How can we best respond when a survivor shares their secret with us? Where can survivors turn for encouragement when the road to recovery seems so long and lonely? Hein presents clinical data and resources alongside pastoral wisdom and care, addressing both psychological and spiritual aspects of sexual abuse. Both for those who have suffered sexual abuse and those in a position to help them, this book is a rich resource. Filled with both sober truths and the hope of Christ, it calls survivors to take courage and walk unafraid down the road of healing.Publication Date: 2018-02-27
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- The Future of Post-Human Personality
by What exactly is so fascinating about abnormal (deviant) personality that, in this postmodern age of ours, there is this popular critical discourse that "[t]he judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge," and the like? (AC 2010) The popularity of this critical discourse is becoming a conventional wisdom in postmodern academia, which can be sharply contrasted with an opposing (yet developed) view in the mainstream medical establishment that "[i]f a person is behaving in ways counter-productive to their own well-being, it is considered maladaptive," since this view "of abnormality is based upon medical diagnosis." (WK 2010b) The two opposing sides of this heated contention--that is, the popular view of postmodern critical discourse and, alternatively, the developed view of the mainstream medical establishment--have powerfully prevented us from seeing the dark sides of both normal and abnormal characters, with the consequence of impoverishing our understanding of personality and its future. Contrary to the two opposing views, normal and abnormal characters are neither possible nor desirable to the extent that their respective spokespersons would like us to believe. Needless to say, this by no means suggests that personality studies are worthless, or that other related fields of study (in biology, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy) should be outrightly dismissed. Obviously, neither of these two extreme views is reasonable either. Instead, this book takes up the difficult challenge to provide an alternative (better) way to understand the nature of personality, especially in relation to normal and abnormal characters--while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). Thus, this book offers a new theory to transcend the existing approaches in the literature on personality in a way not thought of before. If successful, this seminal project is to radically change the way that we think about personality, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its "post-human" fate.Publication Date: 2010-10-28 - Psychology of Stress
by In this book, the authors study the psychology of stress. Topics discussed include the integration of psychological factors and the metaphysical representation of the skin in cutaneous homeostasis under stress influence and its effect on skin wound healing; the use of the Dundee Stress State Questionnaire (DSSQ) in the investigation of task-induced stress; stress in adoptive parenthood; cognitive deficit and immune alterations after chronic stress exposure; stress and homosexuality; the psychological factors influencing inter-individual variation in carbon dioxide-induced stress response; and chronic psychosocial work stress in teachers.Publication Date: 2013-01-01 - When Theories Touch
by This book aims to deconstruct the different theoretical perspectives of psychoanalysis, and reconstruct these concepts in a language that is readily understood. Wherever possible this is meant not to do away with terms that are meaningful, but to attempt to clarify terms and concepts. The book comes in three sections. The first examines Freud's different theories and describes how Freud shifted his emphasis over time. The second section covers all the major post-Freudian theorists: Hartmann and Anna Freud (together in one chapter), Melanie Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Sullivan, Mahler, Kohut, Kernberg, and Bion; and a chapter on the movement from classical theory to contemporary conflict theory. The last section deals with issues raised in contemporary psychoanalysis - issues as they pertain to the clinical situation, and the rationale for a theory of endogenous stimulation.Publication Date: 2010-12-31