1st Edition
Shared Grace Therapists and Clergy Working Together
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Learn how theology and psychology can work together to provide effective therapy! Shared Grace provides a framework within which mental health professionals and clergy can work together to provide people in need with appropriate psychological services and spiritual interventions. Breaking down the walls between psychology and religion, this guide offers you proven and tried methods and models... Read more
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Our Story: Beginnings
- Introduction
- Basic Terms
- Basic Clinical and Spiritual Premises
- Teresa's Story
- Our Collaboration Begins
- Chapter 2. Healing the Effects of Severe Childhood Abuse
- Basic Assumptions About Therapy
- Effects of Severe Childhood Abuse
- Goals of Treatment
- Chapter 3. The Benevolence Model
- Principle One: God Is Love
- Principle Two: God Loves Us
- Principle Three: God's Love is Unconditional
- Principle Four: God's Forgiveness Is Always Available to Us
- Principle Five: We Are Called to Love God, Ourselves, and Others
- Principle Six: We Were Created to Be in Relationship with One Another
- Chapter 4. Implementation of the Benevolence Model I: Transforming Images and Experience
- Healing Images of God
- Transforming Experience
- Chapter 5. Implementation of the Benevolence Model II: Healing Through Relationship
- Extending Divine Love into the World
- Holy Regard
- Transforming Power of Love
- Chapter 6. Working Together: Guidelines for Therapist/Clergy Collaboration
- Types of Collaboration
- Benefits of Collaboration
- Guidelines for Therapists
- Guidelines for Clergy
- Overcoming Obstacles to Collaboration
- Chapter 7. Establishment of Support Groups
- Benefits of the Support Group
- Guidelines for Establishing Support Groups
- Guidelines for Support Group Members
- Pitfalls to Avoid
- Chapter 8. Healing Interventions
- Metaphors
- Imagery
- Stories and Parables
- Rituals and Ceremonies
- Chapter 9. Therapists and Clergy Growing Together
- Steven
- Susan
- Marion
- Appendix A: Teresa's Personality Structure
- Appendix B: Resources for Therapists
- Appendix C: Resources for Clergy
- Appendix D: Resources for Support Group Members
- Appendix E: Resources for Survivors
- Appendix F: Resources Guided Imagery
- References
- Index
Biography
Bonfiglio, Susan; Koenig, Harold G; Bilich, Marion A; Carlson, Steven D
