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RELIGION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Various forms of explicitly religiouspsychotherapies that maintain the

traditional psychological framework haverecently become more prevalent.

lients! religious beliefs are increasingly

being considered in psychotherapy withthe goal of improving service ande"ectiveness of treatment.#$%&
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' resulting development was theistic psychotherapy.onceptually, it consists of theological principles, a

theistic view of personality, and a theistic view of

psychotherapy.#$$& (ollowing an explicit minimi)ing strategy, therapists

attempt to minimi)e con*ict by acknowledging theirreligious views while being respectful of client!s

religious views.#$+&

his opens up the potential for therapists to directly

utili)e religious practices and principles in therapy,such as prayer, forgiveness, and grace.
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Various forms of explicitly religious psychotherapies that maintain thetraditional psychological framework have recently become moreprevalent.

lients! religious beliefs are increasingly being considered in

psychotherapy with the goal of improving service and e"ectiveness oftreatment.#$%&

' resulting development was theistic psychotherapy. onceptually, itconsists of theological principles, a theistic view of personality, and atheistic view of psychotherapy.#$$&

(ollowing an explicit minimi)ing strategy, therapists attempt tominimi)e con*ict by acknowledging their religious views while beingrespectful of client!s religious views.#$+&his opens up the potential fortherapists to directly utili)e religious practices and principles intherapy, such as prayer, forgiveness, and grace.
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-n /+0,homas Odenseverely critici)ed mid123th century pastoral careand the pastoralpsychology that guided it as having entirelyabandoned its classical4traditional sources, andhaving become overwhelmingly dominated bymodern psychological in*uences from (reud,5ogers, and others.#$/&

6ore recently, others have described pastoralpsychology as a eld that experiences a tensionbetween psychology and theology.#+3&
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'pproximately $37 expressed somedegree of a8liation with organi)edreligion, with almost 097 indicating

that they were highly active orregularly participate in religion.


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' recent survey of counselor values, based on anationally representative sample of counselormembers of the 'merican ounseling'ssociation, showed that almost %07 of therespondents believe in a personal :od whileanother 297 believe in a transcendent or spiritualdimension to reality ;elly, in press?.

'pproximately $37 expressed some degree ofa8liation with organi)ed religion, with almost097 indicating that they were highly active orregularly participate in religion.


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hose who identied themselves as religiousalso expressed a substantially greater intrinsic

than extrinsic religious orientation, that is,they value religion more for its importance asa guide in life than for its socially benecial orpersonally comforting aspects.

his last nding suggests that counselors whoare religious tend to have a religiousnessgrounded in a spiritual orientation toward life.


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Aurveys of other mental healthprofessionals have shown that the spiritualand religious values and beliefs of clinical

psychologists, social workers, andpsychiatrists are, in some respects, similarto those of counselors ;Baughen, yler, CD. '. lark, //EFergin C Densen, //3EAhafranske C 6alony, //3b?, while inother respects are somewhat dissimilar.


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-n contrast to this generally high valuing of spirituality andreligion, counselors and other mental health professionalsmanifest substantial di"erences about specic, traditionalreligious beliefs.

-ndeed, while counselors and other mental healthprofessionals indicate high levels of agreement on a widerange of mental health values such as self1determination,personal responsibility, and human relatedness, they di"ersignicantly in their opinions regarding specic kinds of

religious belief11for example, in the nature of humansGrelationship to :od or the transcendent and in religiouslyassociated morality in the area of sexuality ;elly, inpressE Densen C Fergin, /++?.


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-n contrast to this generally high valuing of spirituality andreligion, counselors and other mental health professionalsmanifest substantial di"erences about specic, traditionalreligious beliefs.

-ndeed, while counselors and other mental healthprofessionals indicate high levels of agreement on a widerange of mental health values such as self1determination,personal responsibility, and human relatedness, they di"ersignicantly in their opinions regarding specic kinds of

religious belief11for example, in the nature of humansGrelationship to :od or the transcendent and in religiouslyassociated morality in the area of sexuality ;elly, inpressE Densen C Fergin, /++?.


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=hen the spiritual and religious beliefs ofcounselors are compared with those of thegeneral population, we nd that counselorsGoverall beliefs and rates of a8liation andparticipation are similar, although not identical,to those of the general population.

(or example, about /37 of the general

population report that they never doubted theexistence of :od ;:allup C astelli, /+/?, while+/7 of counselors indicate a belief in a personal:od or a transcendent dimension to reality.


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Foth professional counselors and the generalpopulation, as well as other mental healthprofessionals, report about a $37 level of somea8liation with organi)ed religion, with 037reporting a high to moderate level ofparticipationE however, these self1reports may besubjective overestimations of actual participation;Badaway et al.,//H?.

On the other hand, the almost H37 of clinicalpsychologists who believe that :od or the divineare illusory notions contrasts with the /.


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G.W.F. HEGEL

Begel;$$31+H? described all systems of religion,philosophy, and social science as expressions of the

basic urge of consciousness to learn about itself and its

surroundings, and record its ndings and hypotheses. hus, religion is only a form of that search for

knowledge, within which humans record variousexperiences and re*ections. Others, compiling and

categori)ing these writings in various ways, form theconsolidated worldview as articulated by that religion,philosophy, social science, etc. Bis work

he Phenomenology of Apirit
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(reud views the idea of :odas being aversion of the fatherimage, andreligious belief as at bottom infantile

and neurotic. 'uthoritarian religion,(reud believed, is dysfunctional andalienates man from himself.
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CARL JUNG

he Awiss psychoanalyst arl Dung;+$9L/%? adopted a very di"erent posture, one

that was more sympathetic to religion andmore concerned with a positive appreciationof religious symbolism.

Dung considered the Muestion of the

existence of :od to be unanswerable by thepsychologist and adopted a kind ofagnosticism.#+&
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'n important thing for 'dler is that :od ;or the idea of:od? motivates people to act, and that those actionsdo have real conseMuences for ourselves and forothers. Our view of :od is important because it

embodies our goals and directs our socialinteractions.

ompared to science, another social movement,religionis more e8cient because it motivates people

more e"ectively. 'ccording to 'dler, only whenscience begins to capture the same religious fervour,and promotes the welfare of all segments of society,will the two be more eMual in peoplesG eyes.
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