Term
| what are the three views of the constitutional nature of human persons? |
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Definition
1. monism (materialism, physicalism)
2. dualism
3. trichotomism |
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Term
| what are the views of the image of God? |
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Definition
1. substantive or ontological
2. relational
3. functional |
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Term
| what can we conclude about being made in the image of God? |
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Definition
1. to be in the image is to be all that God intended for us to be as human persons.
2. Relationship with God is the most fundamental aspect of our humanness
3. humans as relational, ontological, and functional unities |
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Term
| What are the conclusions/ basics to a biblical anthropology |
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Definition
1. people are creatures accountable to God
2. people are mad in God's image and have dignity and worth
3. people have a special place in the created order
4. people have many things in common with animals
5. people are made for relationships with God/Others
6. people have significant capabilities
7. people are fallen
8. redemption attests to man's worth in God's sight |
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Term
| Modern Psychology has been influenced by what two primary positions? |
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Definition
1. Naturalism
2. Rationalism |
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Term
| What are the main assumptions of evolutionary psychology? |
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Definition
1. psychic unity of humanity
2. past oriented |
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Term
| What are the assumptions of Evolutionary anthropology? |
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Definition
1. material
2. accidental
3. a neutral view of human nature
4. deterministic |
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Term
| What are the models of personality discussed in class? |
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Definition
1. motivational force
2. organismic valuing process
3. health
4. abnormality |
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Term
| What are the humanistic anthropological assumptions |
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Definition
1. the primacy of the individual
2. positive view of human nature
3. the unity of the individual
4. phenomenology
5. free will
6. naturalism |
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Term
| What is purpose of theology |
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Definition
1. westminister confession
2. theology aims to help us pray...
3. we learn to do this in relational encounters with God and others, the world, ourselves
4. this involves knowing the truth and living the truth
5. being conformed into the image of Christ |
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Term
| purpose of psychology (clinical)? |
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Definition
1. to describe potential for growth and change...
2. has implicit notions of heath, disease, and process of growth and change |
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Term
| health and psychopathology? |
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Definition
1. term is from medical model
2. is there a goal, telos trajectory for human development?
3. can they truly prescribe health?
4. modern science tried to separate facts/descriptions from values/prescriptions. |
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Term
| How can we determine Maturity/Holiness/Godliness? |
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Definition
1. look to exemplars
2. cultural relativism
3. behavioral considerations/adaptations |
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Term
| what can help you to know if client has cognitive distortions related to God, faith, satan, and self |
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Definition
1. knowledge of the client's spiritual milieu
2. proper use of religious language and concepts
3. possibility of abuse by church members, complicating the pain and confusion |
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Term
| In what ways can the person feel alienated from God? |
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Definition
1. abandonment/lack of protection from God
2. too awful to be wanted/loved by a perfect, holy God
3. conflict among Christian and pagan/satanist main personality structure versus alters . ("some have alter personalities who claim an allegiance to satan and not God. many times this produces an intense conflict between the client alters that are Christian and those that claim to be satanists") |
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Term
| What are the spiritual issues frequently encountered with dissociative clients? |
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Definition
1. cognitive distortions related to God, faith, satan, and self.
2. feeling alienated from God
3. feeling of being possessed by the devil, demonic spirits and/or forces |
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Term
| What are the problems in differentiation between dissociation and demonization? |
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Definition
1. overlap
2. role enactment
3. co-existence |
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Term
| what are methods of discernment |
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Definition
1. spiritual discernment
2. behavioral assessment
3. background and history assessment
4. testing the spirits |
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Term
| what are possible approaches to treatment? (1-3) |
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Definition
1. refer client to clergy person
2. ignore, avoid, and exclude religious issues from the clinical picture
3. therapy done by clergy trained in counseling dissociative disorders |
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Term
| what are possible approaches to treatment? (4-6) |
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Definition
4. treatment by clergy with prayer, exorcism, and other traditional Christian practices
5. treatment by persons with professional counseling credentials, also trained in religion
6. collaboration of clergy and psychologists |
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Term
| What should be considered in treatment? |
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Definition
1. different etiologies require different treatments
2. spiritual approaches
3. psychological approaches |
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Term
| what are the spiritual approaches? |
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Definition
1. alternatives to exorcism- prayer, support in the body of Christ, being a part of process groups
2. exorcism |
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Term
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Definition
| 1. individual therapy , group therapy |
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