The Power Of Neuroplasticity For Pastoral And Spiritual Care
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The Power Of Neuroplasticity For Pastoral And Spiritual Care
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Author : Kirk A. Bingaman
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2014-04-10
The Power Of Neuroplasticity For Pastoral And Spiritual Care written by Kirk A. Bingaman and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Religion categories.
Studies in neuroscience demonstrate that a focus on mindfulness meditation and contemplative spiritual practice has the capacity to increase our non-anxious awareness and significantly lower our stress. Not only is this finding of immediate importance for pastoral counselors and psychotherapists, it will even necessitate a paradigm shift in the way that pastoral and spiritual practitioners approach the general care of souls. The starting point for such a paradigm shift is an acknowledgement of the built-in negativity bias of the brain, and how certain beliefs and theological views may inadvertently reinforce the bias to the detriment of individuals and faith communities. Once necessary for human survival, the ingrained bias can often be excessive for today’s world, resulting in negatively disproportionate assessments of life events and human relationships. To balance the neural predisposition toward negativity and anxious awareness, it is necessary for pastoral and spiritual caregivers, and those in their care, to cultivate a regular contemplative-meditational practice. The Power of Neuroplasticity for Pastoral and Spiritual Care focuses on the groundbreaking finding of contemporary neuroscience—that the brain is built for change across the entire lifespan. It is designed to make the research accessible to and relevant for those engaged in the work of pastoral and spiritual care in order to help clients and congregants effect lasting and transformative changes in the mind and brain. Through the regular practice of contemplative prayer and meditation, we can literally calm the stress region of the brain in order to live less anxiously and experience more fully the peace and joy of the present moment. The introduction of mindfulness- and acceptance-based counseling approaches will provide pastoral and spiritual practitioners with an important therapeutic framework to situate their work, from which they can make more informed and effective interventions geared toward using the mind to change the brain.
Pastoral And Spiritual Care In A Digital Age
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Author : Kirk A. Bingaman
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2018-10-15
Pastoral And Spiritual Care In A Digital Age written by Kirk A. Bingaman and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with Religion categories.
Digital technologies and the advance of artificial intelligence are changing human nature. This book explores implications for pastoral and spiritual care providers, religious faith communities, clinical practitioners, and educators and asserts the need for theological reflection about both the existential risk and the opportunities of this change.
Neuroplasticity Performativity And Clergy Wellness
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Author : William D. Roozeboom
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-12-24
Neuroplasticity Performativity And Clergy Wellness written by William D. Roozeboom and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-24 with Religion categories.
This book invites readers, particularly clergy members, to rethink their understandings of the human person in light of recent developments in neuroscience. In addition to bringing together religion and neuroscience, it engages narrative theory, exercise physiology, and constructions of wellness to raise crucial questions about human identity and relationality and argue for a model of care that connects self-care and care for/with others. Furthermore, it claims that human beings are whole, intra/inter-relational, dynamic, plastic, and performative agents who have the capacity to story themselves neurophysiologically (in both “top-down” and “bottom-up” ways) through their regular practices of wellness.
Pastoral Theology And Care
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Author : Nancy J. Ramsay
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Pastoral Theology And Care written by Nancy J. Ramsay and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Religion categories.
Leading pastoral theologians explore a wide variety of themes related to pastoral practice. Pastoral Theology and Care: Critical Trajectories in Theory and Practice offers a collection of essays by leading pastoral theologians that represent emerging trajectories in the fields of pastoral theology and care. The topics explored include: qualitative research and ethnography, advances in neuroscience, care across pluralities and intersections in religion and spiritualties, the influence of neoliberal economics in socio-economic vulnerabilities, postcolonial theory and its implications, the intersections of race and religion in caring for black women, and the usefulness of intersectionality for pastoral practice. Each of the essays offers a richly illustrated review of a practice of pastoral care relationally and in the public domain. The contributions to this volume engage seven critical directions emerging in the literature of pastoral theology in the United States and internationally among pastoral and practical theologians. While coverage of these topics does not exhaust important points of activity in the field, it does represent especially promising resources for theory and practice. This important work: Offers unique coverage of new directions in the field Includes contributions from an exceptional group of experts who are noted leaders in their areas of study Introduces the newest perspectives on pastoral care and offers constructive proposals Filled with case illustrations that make chapters pedagogically useful, Pastoral Theology and Care is essential reading for faculty, seminarians and students in advanced degree programs, and pastors.
The Practice Of Pastoral Care
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Author : Carrie Doehring
language : en
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Release Date : 2014-12-05
The Practice Of Pastoral Care written by Carrie Doehring and has been published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-05 with Religion categories.
The Practice of Pastoral Care has become a popular seminary textbook for courses in pastoral care and a manual for clinical pastoral education. In it, Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through a trifocal lens that incorporates premodern, modern, and postmodern approaches to religious and psychological knowledge. Doehring describes the basic ingredients of a caregiving relationship, shows how to use the caregiver's life experience as a source of authority, and demonstrates how to develop the skill of listening and establishing the actual relationship. This new edition elaborates on and expands the author's previous work, adding an intercultural perspective that gives more attention to religious pluralism in the pastoral care setting. It offers a road map for using a step-by-step narrative, relational, embodied approach to spiritual care that respects the unique ways people live out their values and beliefs, especially in coping with stress, loss, and violence. Readers will be able to confidently and professionally offer pastoral care and counseling to members of their congregations or other places of ministry.
The Practice Of Pastoral Care Revised And Expanded Edition
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Author : Carrie Doehring
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2015-01-12
The Practice Of Pastoral Care Revised And Expanded Edition written by Carrie Doehring and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-12 with Religion categories.
The Practice of Pastoral Care has become a popular seminary textbook for courses in pastoral care and a manual for clinical pastoral education. In it, Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through a trifocal lens that incorporates premodern, modern, and postmodern approaches to religious and psychological knowledge. Doehring describes the basic ingredients of a caregiving relationship, shows how to use the caregiver's life experience as a source of authority, and demonstrates how to develop the skill of listening and establishing the actual relationship. This new edition elaborates on and expands the author's previous work, adding an intercultural perspective that gives more attention to religious pluralism in the pastoral care setting. It offers a road map for using a step-by-step narrative, relational, embodied approach to spiritual care that respects the unique ways people live out their values and beliefs, especially in coping with stress, loss, and violence. Readers will be able to confidently and professionally offer pastoral care and counseling to members of their congregations or other places of ministry.
Neuroplasticity Performativity And Clergy Wellness
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Author : William D. Roozeboom
language : en
Publisher: Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
Release Date : 2016-12-15
Neuroplasticity Performativity And Clergy Wellness written by William D. Roozeboom and has been published by Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Clergy categories.
Issues of clergy health and well-being are physical issues but also have social and theological dimensions. This book engages in interdisciplinary reconsideration of theological anthropology in light of the plasticity and performative quality of the embodied brain ecosystem, a...
Justice Matters
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Author : Kyungsig Samuel Lee
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-29
Justice Matters written by Kyungsig Samuel Lee and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-29 with Social Science categories.
The nine chapters in this book, along with a critical introduction, address complex theological issues relating to structural inequalities of our society, exacerbated by the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pastoral theology as an academic discipline is not a value-free enterprise. This book strives to speak against all forms of injustice and to advocate for those who suffer under existing structural inequalities because such a liberative and social transformative task constitutes the fundamental work of pastoral theology. Each chapter in this book analyses how private problems of individuals are occurring within the immediate world of experience with public issues historically, socially, and politically. As a whole, this book addresses racial injustice, ableism, foster family care, and issues faced by Christian churches during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Pastoral Theology.
Caring For Joy Narrative Theology And Practice
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Author : Mary Clark Moschella
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-09-07
Caring For Joy Narrative Theology And Practice written by Mary Clark Moschella and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-07 with Religion categories.
In Caring for Joy: Narrative, Theology, and Practice Mary Clark Moschella explores the lively narratives of five remarkable caregivers, offering theological wisdom and practical resources for scholars, counselors, religious leaders, and others who wish to live and move along more joyful, life-giving spiritual paths.
Christian Responses To Spiritual Incursions Into The 21st Century Church And Society
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Author : Nikolaos Asproulis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-30
Christian Responses To Spiritual Incursions Into The 21st Century Church And Society written by Nikolaos Asproulis and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with Religion categories.
This volume provides an account of the surprising ‘in-breaking’ of spiritual life that persists in our culture, despite the best efforts of atheist spokespersons and secular theorists. Spirituality in its varying forms is irrepressible, resisting our attempts to exclude it by continuing to seep through the cracks and leak through the gaps. When it is allowed to manifest itself through the Christian faith-tradition, it has the power to surprise, transform and renew everything it touches. This volume contains a series of case studies, each of which describes the inner-functionings and out-workings of the spiritual life as a transformative point of contact between God, world, society and self. Each chapter contains high-level inquiry, drawing on best-practice scholarship that is deeply aware of the needs and opportunities that confront 21st-century society.