Understanding the psychological soul of spirituality : a guidebook for research and practice / Ralph L. Piedmont and Teresa A. Wilkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piedmont, Ralph L., 1958- author.

Wilkins, Teresa A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituality--Psychological aspects.

Spirituality.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Contents:

1 A Brief Overview of the Current Status of Religiousness and Spirituality in the Social Sciences: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go p. 1

How We Got Here p. 2

Identifying the Issues Confronting the Field Today p. 7

R/S Levels of Analysis p. 7

Basic Scientific Issues for R/S Research p. 9

Direction for this Volume p. 19

2 A Psychological Ontology for Understanding Spirituality and the Numinous p. 24

The Tension between Social Science and Theology p. 24

Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny p. 27

A Psychological Ontology for the Numinous p. 30

Defining the Numinous Space p. 30

Defining the Basic Motivations of the Numinous Space p. 33

The Psychology of the Numinous p. 41

3 A Social Science Paradigm for Making Numinous-Based Clinical Interventions: From the Integration to the Collaboration of the Social Sciences and Theology p. 45

Current Paradigms for Psycho-Spiritual Integration p. 48

Reductionistic p. 48

Bilingualism p. 49

Post-hoc or Contingency Based p. 51

Spiritual Direction p. 52

Theistic Psychology p. 53

Moving Beyond Integration p. 55

Understanding Pastoral Counseling as a Social Science p. 58

Brief Historical Overview p. 58

PC as a Social Science p. 60

Who Is the Pastoral Counselor? p. 63

What Does the Pastoral Counselor Do? p. 66

4 An Epistemological Approach to Understanding Spirituality and the Numinous p. 70

Methodological Issues in the Assessment of R/S Constructs p. 71

Protestant Bias in Items p. 71

Control for Acquiescence p. 71

Lack of Normative Data p. 72

The Reliance on Self-Report Scores p. 74

Univariate Paradigm p. 76

Conclusions Regarding Methodological Issues p. 79

A Methodology for Developing Numinous Constructs p. 80

Assumptions of the Model p. 80

Conclusions about the Assumptions of the Numinous Model p. 90

Methodologies for Testing Numinous Constructs p. 90

Item Development Phase p. 91

Item Analysis and Scale Evaluation p. 94

Demonstrating Structural Validity p. 95

Demonstrating Convergent and Discriminant Validity p. 98

Incremental Validity p. 99

Causal Influence p. 100

Appendix 4.A SPSS Syntax for Conducting a Procrustean Factor Analysis for a Numinous Scale p. 109

Appendix 4.B SPSS Syntax for Conducting a Monte Carlo Analysis to Develop Null Distributions for Congruence Coefficients for a Numinous Scale p. 112

5 Overview of the Only FFM Based Measure of the Numinous: The Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments (ASPIRES) Scale p. 116

Finding the Universal Aspects of Spirituality p. 117

Initial Development p. 118

The Search for Structure p. 121

Construct and Incremental Validity p. 123

The ASPIRES Model and Scale p. 127

The Conceptual Foundation to the ASPIRES p. 130

The Empirical Structure of the ASPIRES p. 133

Generalizability of the ASPIRES Scale p. 139

The Dark Side to the Numinous: Religious Crisis and Psychopathology p. 142

Interpreting ASPIRES Protocols p. 144

Appendix 5.A ASPIRES Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments: Scoring and Interpretive Computer Report p. 156

6 The Logoplex as a Psychological Model for Understanding Meaning p. 161

Basic Assumption of the Logoplex p. 162

The Logoplex p. 166

Interpretive Approach to the Logoplex p. 170

Clinical and Practical Considerations p. 175

7 Clinical Assessment of Clients that Includes the Numinous: Introduction to and Validation of the Comprehensive Psycho-Spiritual Clinical Interview (CPSCI) p. 180

Development of the CPSCI p. 181

Basic Structure p. 184

Using, Scoring, and Interpreting the CPSCI p. 185

Caveats and Conclusions p. 201

Suggestions for Use p. 202

Appendix 7.A A Comprehensive Psycho-Spiritual Clinical Interview p. 205

8 Clinical Case Presentation p. 210

The Assessment Process p. 211

Assembling a Testing Protocol p. 212

NEO PI-3 Results p. 215

PPCL Results p. 218

Adjective Checklist Results p. 218

BSI Results p. 220

CPSCI Results p. 220

ASPIRES Results p. 223

Pastoral Themes p. 223

Treatment Outcome Information p. 225

Therapist Debriefing p. 227

Appendix 8.A A CPSCI for Zach p. 232

9 Recommendations for Developing the Science of the Numinous p. 237

Core Issues for Training p. 238

Development of Better Numinous Measures p. 240

CPSCI Development p. 244

Logoplex Development p. 246

Developing New Interventions p. 246

Developing the. Psychological Implications for Religious Crisis and Worthiness p. 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1138559164

9781138559165

9781138559158

1138559156

OCLC:

1107367659