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Racism, eco-violence, and myriad sociopolitical and interpersonal injustices continuously injure individuals, communities, and the globe, thereby challenging the human capacity to endure. The prevailing biomedical model of trauma, with its emphasis on pathology, fails to acknowledge the traumatic nature of these diffuse and pervasive injuries. The disciplines of spiritual and pastoral psychology are uniquely poised to reconceptualize trauma and reframe it as part of a stress-trauma continuum, given the way trauma can engender great suffering as well as resistance and the possibility of transformation. This perspective eschews the sentiment, ubiquitous in popular culture, that everything stressful is traumatic as well as the notion that "true" trauma is delimited by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR). This article posits a strength-based approach to trauma that contextualizes our societal negativity bias within spiritual values of hope, (post-traumatic) growth, and (possibly) resilience while not diminishing the very real suffering, even despair, that emerge from trauma of all kinds.
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Weighing less than three pounds four ounces, very low birthweight infants account for 1.4% of births and 46% of infant deaths in the U.S. Mothers of these infants often endure significant suffering while witnessing their children struggle for life. By examining their psychological and theological needs, and drawing on a mother's lived experience, this article develops a psychospiritual, family-centered theory of care to aid chaplains in providing spiritual care to mothers in the NICU.
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Serviço Religioso no Hospital/ética , Clero/ética , Recém-Nascido de muito Baixo Peso , Modelos Psicológicos , Mães/psicologia , Assistência Religiosa/ética , Relações Profissional-Paciente , Adaptação Psicológica , Serviço Religioso no Hospital/métodos , Clero/métodos , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Unidades de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal/organização & administração , Assistência Religiosa/métodos , Espiritualidade , Estados UnidosRESUMO
The consolidation of AAPC and ACPE created an opportunity to advance the discipline and practice of spiritually integrated psychotherapy in a distinctive, sustainable way. AAPC's way of educating and forming counselors is like a tree whose root system is strong, but its previous location was no longer viable. This article expands the metaphor of transplanting the AAPC tree and outlines how the consolidation will facilitate the growth of spiritually integrated psychotherapy in the AAPC tradition into the future.