McMinn and Campbell start out chapter six (a deeper review of the 1st domain of interventions, that of addressing symptoms) with this helpful insight: “Many of our graduate students select psychology as a profession after deciding against one of two alternative career paths.” Some are tempted to pastoral ministry and so see psychology as a [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 27, 2008
Do we really learn from instruction?
[Note: those looking for my blog summary of Integrative Psychotherapy, ch. 6 will need to come back tomorrow. Running behind ]
How much do we really benefit from instruction? Yes, instruction increases our knowledge base. That is certainly true. But do we benefit–does our behavior really change from it? Do we learn and does it [...]
February 26, 2008
Characteristics of an on-line predator and victim
The February edition of the American Psychologist (63:2) has an article surveying the literature regarding, “Online ‘Predators’ and Their Victims.” The authors start by making this assertion, “The publicity about online “predators” who prey on naive children using trickery and violence is largely inaccurate.” (p. 111). So, what is the truth as we know it [...]
February 25, 2008
Science Monday? Studies in Internet and Pornography addiction
I think I wrote about this last year….search APA journals for literature on Internet addiction and Pornography addiction and what do you find? Not much (1st set of terms) and nothing (2nd set of terms). Search all of PsychInfo to include all of psych journals and you find a few: several published in christian journals [...]
February 21, 2008
Every city needs a Bill Krispin
On Tuesday night I attended a talk given by Bill Krispin entitled, “How the World has Changed in my Years of Ministry Service (1966-2008). Bill is recently retired as executive director of Citynet. Before that he was longtime leader of the Center for Urban Theological Studies (CUTS). Functionally, he is part pastor and part sociologist. [...]
February 20, 2008
Integrative Psychotherapy VI: Assessment and Conceptualization
In chapter 6 of Integrative Psychotherapy: Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach, McMinn and Campbell take up the matter of case conceptualization. Thus far they have been discussing the foundations and features of their therapy model. Just before going into deeper looks and clinical applications of their 3 domains, they stop to look at the concept [...]
February 19, 2008
Do you say more than you mean to?
We all are guilty of saying one thing while hiding (or trying to) our true feelings or intent. We do this for a variety of reasons. We fear conflict. We don’t want to hurt another. We don’t want to be seen as petty. We want to manipulate. Bottom line, we do image management.
But, I suspect [...]
February 18, 2008
Suppressed Anger enhances pain perception?
Today in Psychopathology we will be discussing the problem of problem anger. In doing some additional research I found that there has been a fair amount of literature produced on the topic of angry emotions and a good amount in the last year or so.
We know that chronic anger has significant impact on the body [...]
February 14, 2008
What defines you? Ashes or Stones of Remembrance?
The Israelites were told to pile up stones as a reminder to their children that the Lord had done an amazing work. These stone of remembrance provide a reminder during hard times that God is near and active. Sometimes we also have the reverse: ashes. Ashes that remind us of a painful time, a failure, [...]
