Pastoral Care of Depression - Helping Clients Heal Their Relationship With God

Informationen zum Autor Moriarty, Glendon Klappentext This book is designed to help clergy and mental health professionals understand how depression negatively affects the way people emotionally experience God and how, through therapy, this hurtful God image can be changed into a much more positive one focused on healing. Inside you'll find numerous tests (complete with sample test forms) that identify an individual's God image, along with all the information needed to take, administer, and interpret them. Zusammenfassung Designed to help clergy and mental health professionals understand how depression negatively affects the way people experience God, and how, through therapy, this hurtful God image can be changed into a positive one, focused on healing. This book teaches you to use psychodynamic and cognitive interventions to change a client's God image. Inhaltsverzeichnis Malony, Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. PART I: DEPRESSION AND THE GOD IMAGE. Depression and Religious Experience. Discovering the God Image. The God Image: Self, Depression, and Christian Thought. PART II: CHANGING THE GOD IMAGE. The Therapeutic Relationship.God Image Assessment. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Cognitive Techniques. Treatment Planning. Epilogue. Appendix. Blank Therapy Forms. References. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Glendon Moriarty, Glendon (School of Psychology and Counse Moriarty, Moriarty Glendon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2006
• EAN: 9780789023827
• ISBN: 978-0-7890-2382-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christian Ministry / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Psychotherapy, Christian ministry & pastoral activity, Religious ministry and clergy