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Christian humanism and psychotherapy: a response to bergin's antitheses
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In this paper, the authors present a response to Bergin's antitheses, on the one hand, and to humanistic psychology from the point of view of a Christian humanism.Abstract:
. Secular and religious values of psychotherapists influence the process of psychotherapy. The psychologist Allen Bergin has pointed out several major antitheses between values of secular psychotherapists and their religiously oriented clients. The present essay is a response to Bergin's antitheses, on the one hand, and to humanistic psychology, on the other, from the point of view of a Christian humanism. Karl Rahner's theological anthropology is proposed as one possible foundation for an explicit articulation of the relationship between psychotherapy and religion, and as a means to address apparently divergent values of psychotherapists and religious believers.read more
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Psychotherapy and Religious Values
TL;DR: This is an abridged sythesis of several lectures Brother Bergin delivered in symposia on the outcome of therapy Psychotherapy sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, the University of Southern California, College of Continuing Education and Psychology Department, and the Albert Einstein Medical College.
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Treatment and generalization effects of cognitive-behavioral and goal-setting interventions with aggressive boys.
TL;DR: At 1-mo followup, Ss who received anger-coping treatment had reduced their aggressive behavior in the classroom and at home and displayed improved self-esteem, and significant changes were not evident to teachers and peers.
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Reinforcement and nonreinforcement in Rogerian psychotherapy.
TL;DR: Excerpts from tape recordings of a single, long-term, successful therapy case handled by Rogers indicated significant reinforcement effects in the clientcentered therapy.
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The concept of the fully functioning person.
TL;DR: The theoretical model of the person who emerges from therapy is described in this article, where the author describes a person functioning freely in all the fullness of his organismic potentialities; a person who is dependable in being realistic, self-enhancing, socialized and appropriate in his behavior; a creative person, whose specific formings of behavior are not easily predictable.