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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Psycho-Spiritual"”.
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Occupational stress in the Namibian Police Force: An exploratory study from a psycho-spiritual perspective
… to deal with stress related problems from psycho-spiritual perspectives. A mixed research methodology of qualitative and quantitative approaches was used by means of interviewing twenty (20) police force members as well as a survey. It was vital to combine the two research methodologies …
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Psycho-spiritual counselling to enhance resiliency as transformative education: An auto/ethnographic inquiry of the interface between spirituality and positive psychology
… attempts to capture my lived experiences of psychospiritual counselling and to describe how my research journey has shaped me personally and professionally. As a priest engaged in psychospiritual counselling internationally for nearly three decades in diverse settings, I attempt to seek …
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The Psychology of Self-Surrender: A Contemplative-Hermeneutic Study
<p>This dissertation examines the psycho-spiritual significance of self-surrender as a mode of being and experiencing. The author seeks to generate meaningful knowledge of self-surrender through a methodology that follows from the distinct nature of self-surrender as a psycho-spiritual/religious …
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A heuristic enquiry of being “Alaq,” suspended in liminality as a convert to Islam
… particularly concerning identity formation, psychological impasse and spiritual development (tazkiyat-un-nafs). Drawing on both Islamic and Western psychological perspectives, the study offers deep self-enquiry into the challenges faced by converts, providing insights into integrating Islamic …
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Hamlet's transformation: An application of Stanislav Grof's holotropic theory to adolescents who are experiencing grief and loss
This thesis extends Stanislav Grof's work on psycho-spiritual transformation by considering whether adolescents can experience what he and Christina Grof (1989, 1990) have called „spiritual emergency‟ (SE). Grof contends that the human psyche, when stimulated by new material originating from loss …
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Integrating Buddhist practices and principles into mental health settings: a mixed method investigation
… Buddhist practices and principles for improving psychological wellbeing, and for enhancing psychosocial functioning more generally. Although there is a growing and credible evidence base that supports the utility of Buddhist techniques for treating specific mental health issues, these techniques …
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An existential phenomenological exploration of the lived experience of freedom in former political prisoners of the Romanian Communist Gulag
… on individuals subjected to physical or/and psychological torture for political reasons has focused on the traumatic experiences of this client group and their sequelae approximating the diagnostic criteria of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It was the purpose of this research to …
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(Re)Turning Warriors: A Practical Theology of Military Moral Stress
… research on moral injury has included clinical psychologists (Litz et al., 2009; Drescher et al., 2011), theologians (Brock & Lettini, 2012), ethicists (Kinghorn, 2012), and philosophers (Sherman, 2015). This dissertation uses a pastoral theological method (Doehring, 2015a; Graham, Walton, & …
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Capacitación de Psicólogos Católicos en Acompañamiento Psicoespiritual Virtual
El acompañamiento psicoespiritual representa una gran fortaleza como medio terapéutico integral para los creyentes cristianos en la atención y prevención de la salud mental desde una concepción ontológica biopsicosocial, pero a la vez espiritual. La falta de programas de capacitación para los …