{"title":"A Critical Review of Maslow’s Theory of Spirituality","authors":"Eleonora Papaleontiou - Louca, Saeed Esmailnia, Niki Thoma","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2021.1932694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2021.1932694","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Maslow’s theory might be one of the most powerful perspectives on humans’ growth. It suggests that people have a strong desire to realize their full potential, reach their self-actualization and find meaning in life. In spite of its attractive nature, the theory has also received much criticism. One of the main objections focuses on its emphasis on “self”, which might be interpreted as an individualistic perspective of life. Maslow’s later addition of the “Transcendence” level seems more compatible with the notion of “spirituality” since people seem, now, to be able to overcome “self” and commit themselves to a higher goal.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"125 1","pages":"327 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86421595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reopening the Heaven’s Gate: spirituality does not offer suicidal short-cuts","authors":"S. Raibagkar","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2021.1919279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2021.1919279","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1997, thirty-nine members of a religious cult from California, US, committed mass suicide to gain abnormal powers exchanging their present body form. This is popularly known as Heaven’s Gate. In 2021, in India, two young women were killed by their learned parents to get abnormal powers by giving-up their present body form. The paper connects such incidences and answers questions like why we feel that our present form of life is worth quitting? Ten eminent personalities from different fields were interviewed. Their responses are presented in a “belief-emotion-behavior,” a novel format, analyzing the relationship between the three.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"15 1","pages":"344 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88014902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. P. Stulp, J. Koelen, G. Glas, P. de Heus, Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe
{"title":"Changes in implicit God representations after psychotherapy for patients diagnosed with a personality disorder. Associations with changes in explicit God representations, distress and object-relational functioning","authors":"H. P. Stulp, J. Koelen, G. Glas, P. de Heus, Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1858733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1858733","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research has demonstrated that maladaptive relational functioning of patients suffering from personality disorders is associated with more negative God representations. This study demonstrated with a single group design among a group of 37 Christian patients with personality disorders, that changes in implicit God representations during psychotherapy, as assessed with the recently developed implicit Apperception Test God Representations (ATGR), were associated with changes in explicit God representations and object-relational functioning, but not in distress. Changes in explicit distress were associated with changes in explicit God representations. Results of cross-lagged analyses suggested that object-relational functioning affected God representations more than vice versa.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"606 1","pages":"132 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76796748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Training the mind: The ascetic path to self-transformation in late antique Christian monasticism","authors":"Inbar Graiver","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2021.1894528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2021.1894528","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Christian asceticism assumes that human beings can profoundly transform themselves over years of systematic training, with divine aid. This contribution joins recent scholarship in stressing the therapeutic and transformative dimensions of asceticism, but argues that it was not solely or primarily through bodily training that asceticism implemented this program. In the Eastern monastic tradition of late antiquity, it was primarily the mind that needed to be transformed and renewed through ascetic practice. The form of asceticism at the center of this study thus involves a disciplined and systematic attempt to purify the mind and train attention, in the service of contemplation.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"7 1","pages":"251 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81785201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors cultivating well-being of women religious in ministry and their resonance with research on the workforce","authors":"M. Kreis, Marian K. Díaz","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2021.1886622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2021.1886622","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using Thematic Analyses the experiences of thriving in ministry were explored across generations of Catholic women religious (N = 1116). Participants responded to open-ended questions regarding their dis/satisfaction with religious life. Sisters expressed concerns about ministry that demanded their energy and time normally needed for community prayer and living. Sisters reported on vital experiences that support their thriving in ministry. Furthermore, Sisters value support from their congregation and the collaboration with ministry partners. Strikingly, these results highlight important factors similar to the findings of research on the workforce and clergy ministry satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"19 1","pages":"270 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73345737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Professional counseling from a Christian worldview","authors":"Courtney Evans, David R. Brown, Jama Davis","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2021.1885004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2021.1885004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As the counseling profession has increased focus on spiritual integration into counseling sessions, such integration brings necessary attention to professional ethics. While ethical guidelines mandate that counselors not impose values on clients, this has oftentimes been confused with the false idea that counselors who are Christian may not or cannot practice ethically due to potential conflicts between ethical practice and religious beliefs. This study helps explore professional counselors’ understanding of the integration of Christianity into professional counseling. Such an understanding may help correct biases regarding ethical use of Christianity in professional mental health counseling.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"22 1","pages":"309 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91309497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceived holistic benefits of equine-assisted therapy among mothers of children with a disability: a pilot study","authors":"M. Escobar","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2019.1621689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2019.1621689","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper presents the first phenomenological qualitative descriptive study exploring the connection between spirituality and equine therapy. Results highlight experiences of 17 mothers with children with disabilities who participated in a 12-week session from January to May 2018 at a Texas equine center. Themes included mothers’ perceptions of spirituality as a supporting force, disability and social isolation affecting child and mother, and equine therapy as a holistic intervention. This pilot study followed Max van Manen’s methodological structure of human science inquiry. Findings demonstrated the challenges of caring for children with disabilities and the potential adverse impact to caregivers’ health.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"53 1","pages":"23 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77121911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The challenging task of defining spirituality","authors":"Andrzej K. Jastrzębski","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1858734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1858734","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many concepts in science lack clarity. Developing clear definitions of research phenomena is one of the most challenging tasks for academics of various proveniences. Defining spirituality seems to be one of those challenges. The author of this article synthetically describes historical and present-day challenges in defining spirituality in order to develop an appropriate awareness of certain major choices one has to make, while using a particular definition of spirituality. A universal definition of spirituality is not proposed here. Instead, the author develops a topology of definitions of spirituality intended to increase both semantical and methodological awareness of the remaining challenges.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"51 1","pages":"113 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81468222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expanding the vision of neurotheology: make neuroscience religion’s ally","authors":"W. Klemm","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1858735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1858735","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Religion and science are often deemed to conflict. Neurotheology is a new way of exploring the interface of neuroscience and religion. Neuroscience shares many of the same concerns about human welfare as religion and also provides the credibility of secular rationale, evidence, explanation, and resolution for many religious ideas for wholesome living. The analysis here reveals and explores nine categories where neuroscience can augment religious life: (1) Harm avoidance, (2) Actualization, (3) Stress reduction, (4) Positive Reinforcement, (5) Human capacity for learning, (6) Biology of love, (7) Sanctity of life, (8) Social neuroscience, and (9) Body ad brain health.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"40 1","pages":"235 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87546725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicole Lindsay, Deanna Haami, N. Tassell-Matamua, P. Pomare, H. Valentine, J. Pahina, Felicity Ware, Paris Pidduck
{"title":"The spiritual experiences of contemporary Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative analysis","authors":"Nicole Lindsay, Deanna Haami, N. Tassell-Matamua, P. Pomare, H. Valentine, J. Pahina, Felicity Ware, Paris Pidduck","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2020.1825152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2020.1825152","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For Aotearoa New Zealand Māori, wairua (spirit) is an integral aspect of existence and important source of well-being. In this qualitative study, 15 Māori participants discuss their personal experiences of wairua. Inductive thematic analysis revealed a diverse range of highly meaningful spiritual experiences occur for Māori, and align with historical accounts about wairua and existing academic research on anomalous experiences. Within Māori culture socially accepted structures exist to reference anomalous experiences against, which facilitate acceptance and normalcy to such occurrences. Valuing and acknowledging Māori spirituality has tremendous therapeutic potential for addressing issues of mental well-being within Aotearoa New Zealand.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"39 1","pages":"74 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85488833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}