Pub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.1177/00916471221077245
Lina S. Ponder
This article is a response to Michael Vogel’s article, “Transitioning Integration: The Case of Regan.” This response highlights Vogel’s ideas on cultural-linguistic models that center culture in understanding religious and spiritual traditions. In addition, this article captures Vogel’s therapeutic sensibilities throughout his work which enabled him to engage with his client’s multiplicity, fluidity, and permeability. This response riffs off of Vogel’s work and attempts to further his ideas of cultural-linguistic models of integration that encompass the Cultural Third and the conscious and unconscious reactions of clients and clinicians. Furthermore, guidelines are provided in how one might become a culturally informed integrative practitioner.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1177/00916471221075599
Michael J. Vogel
This article draws on narrative conventions to present a long-term case study involving a person engaged in a relational psychoanalytic treatment for childhood trauma, gender nonconformity, and religious disenfranchisement. Particular efforts are made to recapitulate Lindbeck’s seminal theological insights with regard to the nature and function of ecclesial doctrines, which are subsequently applied as hermeneutical sensibilities toward various integrative themes and processes emerging within this case study. Furthermore, a number of subordinate perspectives deemed to be coherent within Lindbeck’s superordinate conception of postliberal (or narrative) approaches to theology are privileged throughout this article. These postmodern perspectives are differentiated from more conservative and liberal approaches to theology. Afterward a postliberal theological framework is conceptualized as nesting interdisciplinary insights pertinent to this case study from miscellaneous scholars of relational psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality studies, and postmodern philosophies. Special considerations are given to three nested concepts from these scholars: identities as (co-constructed) soft assemblies; selves as braided and porous; and integrated multiplicity as normative. Auxiliary idioms to include queering, centering, witnessing, and prototyping are also applied at different points in this article. Together these idiomatic concepts are believed to supply viable alternatives to many modern conceptions of essentialism and supplement a postliberal approach to this case study. To be sure, it is suggested throughout this article that forms of modernity are conflated with theological approaches and now require attention from those communities who constitute the integrative paradigm. These points are summarized following this case study, which both reflects critically on the clinician’s subjectivity and renders coherent the clinical process from a postliberal theological framework.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.1177/00916471211068044
Caleb Brown, Fred Volk, R. Wallsgrove
Since Lynn White’s 1967 discussion of Christianity and environmentalism, numerous quantitative sociological studies have attempted to assess whether White’s historical claim is born out in Christians’ current perspectives. These studies do so in large part by assessing Christians’ dominion and stewardship tendencies, about which they make two assumptions: (1) dominion ideology is inherently anti-environmental and (2) dominion and stewardship ideologies are opposed. Many Christians reject these assumptions, a fact we demonstrate by surveying Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and North American Evangelical sources. Each of these discourses, in clear contradistinction to the quantitative sociological literature, portray dominion as leading to self-sacrificial stewardship of creation, all of which is considered intrinsically valuable. Taking a 2015 study of Christians in Nigeria as a case-study, we demonstrate that this conflict between a) the perspectives assumed in the quantitative literature and b) the perspectives held by many Christians leads to a forced and distortive portrayal of these Christians’ dominion and stewardship perspectives. Finally, we propose ways of measuring dominion and stewardship perspectives that, while not devoid of assumptions, are flexible enough for Christians to register a variety of competing understandings of these concepts.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1177/00916471221077248
Michell Temple, A. Kerlin
This article provided a brief overview of the Strategic Trauma and Abuse Recovery System (STARS), including its theoretical foundation, theory of change, and the process of the treatment model. STARS is a spiritually integrated treatment model first developed in a Christian counseling environment. We desired to learn if the clients who had completed this therapy were able to describe the process of therapy and whether those descriptions would align with the treatment model as described. Nine ( N = 9) participants who had successfully completed STARS participated in this qualitative study which reviewed the process of therapy. Our findings indicated close fidelity to the treatment model. Participants reported improvement in mental health symptoms, improvement in relationships, and improvement in spiritual well-being.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1177/00916471221075597
Brad D. Strawn
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/00916471211071048
G. R. Horton
This article draws on theologian Walter Brueggemann’s analysis of the prophetic tradition in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures to suggest implications for psychotherapists who wish to understand and intervene with patients in more hermeneutically grounded ways. It begins with a brief biographical contextualization of Walter Brueggemann’s work as an Old Testament scholar followed by an extrapolation of key themes in his work. These are (1) the ubiquity of empire, (2) the critical dismantling of empire through grief, and (3) the penetration of despair through the resuscitation of imagination that sees a future otherwise than empire. The article then moves to implications for a hermeneutically sensitive psychotherapy that makes use of the prophetic tradition to fashion a “prophetic sensibility.” Finally, the clinical practice of a prophetic sensibility is demonstrated through an examination of relevant case material.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1177/00916471211071049
Paul C. Jones
This article will attempt to offer contributions from the systematic theologian, Jürgen Moltmann, to practicing clinicians of psychotherapy and counseling. It will begin by introducing Moltmann and three of his major theological themes of hope, pathos, and liberation. For Moltmann, hope is linked to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The presence of God in the person of Jesus represents God’s divine pathos or willingness to be vulnerably affected by human suffering. Liberation is then found in the suffering way of Jesus Christ. Next, the article will discuss how each of these three theological themes can be integrated with the work of psychotherapy as well as how Moltmann’s theology provides a critique of contemporary models of psychotherapy that attempt only to reduce or eliminate suffering. Finally, an example is used to draw out the implications of the critique as well as offer applications for clinical integrative practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-17DOI: 10.1177/00916471211071063
Brad D. Strawn
This article will engage in theology-directed integration. It will do so by first examining the theological anthropology of philosopher theologian James K. A. Smith. Smith presents a philosophical/theological anthropology of humans as embodied creatures embedded within cultural practices/liturgies. These liturgies implicitly shape and form the telos of human desire and contain ethics of ultimacy (e.g., image of the good life). In other words, liturgies shape the telos of one’s desire/love and what one ultimately worships. Liturgies are not neutral but aim one toward desiring a particular kingdom. Finally, the import of this theology will be explored as it relates to the clinical integrative practice of psychotherapy.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-17DOI: 10.1177/00916471211071060
Tina R. Armstrong, Anne Wangugi, Seanita N. Scott
Rev. Dr Renita Weems is a pioneering foremother of womanist theology whose work also poses significant implications for the practice of clinical psychology and integration. Although Dr Weems’ work describes several topics worthy of deeper exploration, this article will examine four distinct themes that speak to the core experience of Black womanhood, followed by the clinical implications of these themes and a case illustration. Dr Weems provides encouragement for the everyday Black women to see herself reflected in the Biblical text and demonstrates this practice as she weaves parallels between their stories and those of women in the scriptures. Dr Weems also offers an analysis of the social conditions that Black women find themselves in and addresses these injustices through a faith lens. She makes it clear that a key component of faith entails acting out justice, which serves to empower those on the margins. Her work offers up a vision for human flourishing for Black women that is fostered through interpersonal connectedness and community relationships. Finally, Dr Weems models creativity in her own work and urges others to be inspired to use their God-given artistic expressions as a source of restoration and healing. Although uncommon in APA style, the balance of this article will continue to use Dr Weems professional title when discussing her. Within the African American tradition, elders are commonly referred to with the inclusion of their titles as a sign of honor and respect; we will celebrate this practice by giving reverence to our esteemed foremother.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-15DOI: 10.1177/00916471211071054
Jenny H. Pak
The new wave of Asian/Asian American postcolonial, feminist scholarship provides a route to engage in critical dialogue, raising awareness that essentialist notions of race, class, ethnicity, gender, and religion fail to account for the complex and dynamic social reality individuals with bicultural/hybrid identity face. Because American psychology in general and integration of theology and psychology in particular has traditionally taken a detached stance toward the culture of the “other,” for this article Joh’s (2006) seminal work, Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology, was selected to amplify a much-needed perspective and cultural sensibility. Grounded in feminist theology, the Korean concept of jeong, a complex, multidimensional meaning of relationality, is used to dismantle the divide between self and other, love and hate, oppressed and oppressor; in this way, the traditional atonement theory and the cross is reconceptualized so that Christ fully embodies radical, inclusive love that offers a new vision of wholeness and life for those suffering from individual and collective oppression. As theology holds potential for the integration necessary in therapy for healing and restoration, this article offers a resource for clinicians interested in expanding the language and horizon of integration—not just with Korean clients, but more broadly beyond white, normative borders.
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