Download or read book Religious Commitment Comfort with Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunctional Beliefs written by George A. Lazo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religiosity impacts religious practice as well as feelings and beliefs about sexuality. In this study, religious practice refers to one's level of commitment to his or her religion. Feelings about sexuality, such as contentment or shame, are synonymous with one's comfort with sexuality. The effect of religious commitment on comfort with sexuality among Evangelical Christian men and women was examined. Data was drawn from a survey conducted within an Evangelical Christian graduate institution (N = 675). Additionally, the relationship between religious commitment and sexual beliefs that are dysfunctional was examined. Sexual beliefs that are dysfunctional, or the sexual dysfunctional beliefs construct, were predicted to mediate the relationship between religious commitment and comfort with sexuality. Findings suggest that there is no correlation between religious commitment and comfort with sexuality among males and females. The results of the analysis using the mediation model are discussed.

Download or read book Religion and Sexual Health written by R.M. Green and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but the relationship between religion and sexual behavior has rarely been studied in a comprehensive way. The essays in this volume bring the views of sex counsellors, therapists. theologians, and bioethicists to bear on the relationship between religion and sexuality. A major theme emerging from these essays is that religion and counselling need to learn from one another. Religious traditions, at the popular or theological levels, are often marked by ignorance and misinformation about sexuality and can benefit by the insights of those who work closely with patients in medical and counselling settings. Counsellors, in turn, need to develop a sensitivity to past and present religious attitudes toward sexuality in order to assist their patients achieve sexual health.

Download or read book Sexuality and Sex Therapy written by Mark A. Yarhouse and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of human sexuality is one of ever-increasing complexity, particularly for Christian therapists and psychologists seeking to be faithful to Scripture, informed by science and sensitive to culture. Mark Yarhouse and Erica Tan offer a survey and appraisal of this field from a Christian perspective, which grounds sex therapy in the biblical affirmation of physicality and the redemptive purposes of human life.

Download or read book A Sense of Sexuality written by Evelyn Eaton Whitehead and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overarching objective of this book is that the reader will recover the sense of sexuality as a gift--which implies risk-taking to achieve freedom. The authors call for a more incarnational attitude toward sexuality, a spirituality that is more comfortable with the flesh.

Download or read book Religion and Sexual Health written by R M Green and published by . This book was released on 1992-10-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but the relationship between religion and sexual behavior has rarely been studied in a comprehensive way. The essays in this volume bring the views of sex counsellors, therapists. theologians, and bioethicists to bear on the relationship between religion and sexuality. A major theme emerging from these essays is that religion and counselling need to learn from one another. Religious traditions, at the popular or theological levels, are often marked by ignorance and misinformation about sexuality and can benefit by the insights of those who work closely with patients in medical and counselling settings. Counsellors, in turn, need to develop a sensitivity to past and present religious attitudes toward sexuality in order to assist their patients achieve sexual health.

Download or read book Sexual Identity and Faith written by Mark A. Yarhouse and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians who struggle with a conflict between their sexual and religious identities have few therapeutic options available to them. ‘Sexual orientation change efforts’ (SOCE) have rightly fallen out of favor and are no longer practiced by most clinicians. At the same time, the common approach of gay affirmative therapy (GAT) can at times present challenges and may not be a good fit when clients hold to conventional religious beliefs and values. An alternative to these methods is Sexual Identity Therapy (SIT)—an approach that aims to provide individuals with a safe therapeutic space to explore the tension between their sexuality and their faith. Working within the SIT framework, clients are able to resolve their inner conflict to their personal satisfaction and to freely choose a coherent identity that enables them to move forward in life. SIT has several stages, each designed to enable the client to make meaning out of his or her same-sex sexuality. At no point in the process is the client encouraged to choose one sexual identity over another. The ultimate goal of SIT is congruence. Congruence is achieved when a person freely adopts an identity and lives it out in ways that are in keeping with his or her beliefs and values. The SIT model is brought to life throughout the book with the help of case studies drawn from the author’s 20 years of experience. Written for both Christian and non-religious clinicians, Sexual Identity and Faith is an informed, respectful, and nuanced guide to help people navigate the difficult conflict between who they are sexually and what they believe religiously.

Download or read book The Safe Congregation Handbook written by Pat Hoertdoerfer and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Sexuality Related Measures written by Robin R. Milhausen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic and invaluable reference handbook, written for sex researchers and their students, has now been completely revised in a new, fourth edition. It remains the only easy and efficient way for researchers to learn about, evaluate, and compare instruments that have previously been used in sex research.

Download or read book Coming Home to Passion written by Ruth Cohn and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed road map for overcoming sexual and relationship impasses originating from painful childhood experiences. Large numbers of adults with histories of childhood trauma and neglect suffer persistent relationship and sexual difficulties. Unfortunately, most have failed to receive adequate help with emerging from these deep and complex problems. Coming Home to Passion: Restoring Loving Sexuality in Couples with Histories of Childhood Trauma and Neglect explores the enduring impacts—physiological, psychological, and behavioral—of childhood trauma and neglect. Author Ruth Cohn, drawing on 25 years of experience working with trauma survivors and their partners and families, lays out a practical and actionable course for recovery in clear, accessible language. This book provides direction and hope to those with trauma backgrounds while also serving as a unique resource for professional readers. Integrating in-depth information on attachment and relationship, trauma and neglect, and sexuality, Cohn details a practical, hands-on treatment approach for revitalizing love, health, and passion.

Download or read book Ebersole and Hess Gerontological Nursing Healthy Aging E Book written by Theris A. Touhy and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Geriatrics** Gain the nursing skills you need to provide wellness-based care for older adults! Ebersole and Hess' Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging, 6th Edition uses a holistic approach to describe compassionate care along a continuum of wellness. Designed to promote healthy aging regardless of the patient's situation or disorder, this text provides best-practice guidelines in covering physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and cognitive health. New to this edition are Next Generation NCLEX®-style case studies, updates on measuring clinical judgment, expanded coverage of core competencies, and more. Written by gerontological nursing experts Theris Touhy and Kathleen Jett, this concise text provides a solid foundation in every aspect of healthy aging. - Focus on health and wellness provides the evidence-based information and strategies needed to promote healthy aging. - Key concepts, learning activities, and discussion questions in every chapter emphasize the information needed to enhance care. - Recommended competencies from the AACN and the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing are integrated throughout. - Discussion of disease processes is placed in the context of healthy adaptation, nursing support, and responsibilities. - Easy-to-use information on nursing techniques and communication appears with the associated disorders, symptoms, and situations. - Tips for Best Practice and Resources for Best Practice boxes provide insight into proven methods of nursing care. - Discussions of nursing and interprofessional actions help students learn to enhance wellness, maintain optimal function, and prevent unnecessary disability. - Coverage of age, cultural, racial, and gender differences highlights these important considerations in caring for older adults. - NEW! Updates reflect the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Model. - NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN)-style case studies provide optimal preparation for the Next Generation NCLEX Examination. - NEW! Specialized information addresses the unique needs of older adults such as atypical disease presentation, geriatric syndromes, neurocognitive disorders, quality of life with chronic illness, legal and ethical issues, and mental health challenges such as depression and substance abuse. - NEW! Coverage of competencies of expanding nursing roles in the care of older adults addresses the continuum of care. - NEW! Gerontological expertise is incorporated into nursing actions and complements other nursing texts (including med-surg, community health, mental health, and assessment books) used in programs without a freestanding gerontological nursing course. - NEW! Expanded content includes information on COPD guidelines, medication use and misuse, Alzheimer's Disease, wound care guidelines, diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing, joint replacement, caregiver strain, hospice and transitional care, and more.

Download or read book Sexual Dysfunction Beyond the Brain Body Connection written by R. Balon and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last years human sexuality has been the focus of interest and study by various disciplines. In this volume a multidisciplinary team of international experts discuss contemporary issues of human sexuality from updates on diagnosis to the management of various sexual dysfunctions. Reviews of the management of several female sexual dysfunctions, the impact of cancer on sexual functioning, the impact of trauma on sexual desire and function as well as the newest trends in sex therapy; androgen deprivation treatment of sexual behavior and autogynephilia are discussed in detail. Further, the complex interplay between the field of human sexuality and the Internet, psychological and cultural aspects of infertility are reviewed. A large amount of clinical material on topics rarely covered in other volumes will prove invaluable reading to clinicians from various disciplines such as psychiatry, psychology, urology, gynecology, sexology and sex therapy.

Download or read book Conjugal Spirituality written by Mary Anne McPherson Oliver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Anne Oliver develops an alternate to 'celibate' religious practices, drawing from the experience of couples and diverse sources in the Christian tradition. This work explores the dynamics of conjugal love.

Download or read book Toward Healthy Aging E Book written by Theris A. Touhy and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-07-10 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 1st Place in Gerontologic Nursing, 2023** **Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Geriatrics** Provide holistic, compassionate nursing care for older adults! Based on evidence-based protocols, Toward Healthy Aging, 11th Edition helps you master gerontological nursing skills with an approach that focuses on health, wholeness, and the potential in aging. In promoting healthy aging, the text emphasizes caring and respect for the person. Special sections provide an honest look at the universal experience of aging. Written by gerontological nursing experts Theris A. Touhy and Kathleen F. Jett, this classic text helps you learn to apply scientific research, build critical thinking skills, and prepare for success on the NCLEX® exam and in clinical practice. - Promoting Healthy Aging: Implications for Gerontological Nursing sections help you apply concepts to assessments and interventions. - A Student Speaks and An Elder Speaks sections at the beginning of every chapter provide perspectives of older people and nursing students. - Nursing Studies provide practice examples designed to assist you in assessment, planning, interventions, and outcomes to promote healthy aging. - Learning objectives in every chapter introduce important content and define learning goals and expectations. - Key concepts provide a concise review of the most important points found in each chapter. - Critical Thinking Questions and Activities help you apply concepts and build clinical judgment skills. - Safety Alerts emphasize QSEN competencies and safety issues related to care of older adults. - Tips for Best Practice boxes summarize evidence-based nursing interventions for practice. - Research Highlights boxes summarize important research studies in the field of gerontology - Research Questions include suggestions and ideas for pursuing nursing research. - Healthy People boxes reference the goals cited in Healthy People 2020. - NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) examination-style case studies at the end of chapters include questions to help you prepare for the NGN exam. - NEW! Completely updated content helps you develop clinical judgment skills, identified by the NCSBN and the AACN as a key attribute of professional nursing. - NEW! Updated topics include COPD guidelines, theories of aging, medication use and misuse, palliative care, wound care guidelines, genomic research, and LGBT family relationships and sexualty in older adults.

Download or read book Evolution and Religion written by Michael Ruse and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruse, a leading expert on Charles Darwin, presents a fictional dialogue among characters with sharply contrasting positions regarding the tensions between science and religious belief.

Download or read book Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment written by Niva Piran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five decades, negative body image has been a major focus of study due to its association with psychological and social morbidity, including eating disorders. However, more recently the body image construct has broadened to include positive ways of living in the body, enabling greater understanding of embodied well-being, as well as protective factors and interventions to guide the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment is the first comprehensive, research-based resource to address the breadth of innovative theoretical concepts and related practices concerning positive ways of living in the body, including positive body image and embodiment. Presenting 37 chapters by world-renowned experts in body image and eating behaviors, this state-of-the-art collection delineates constructs of positive body image and embodiment, as well as social environments (such as families, peers, schools, media, and the Internet) and therapeutic processes that can enhance them. Constructs examined include positive embodiment, body appreciation, body functionality, body image flexibility, broad conceptualization of beauty, intuitive eating, and attuned sexuality. Also discussed are protective factors, such as environments that promote body acceptance, personal safety, diversity, and activism, and a resistant stance towards objectification, media images, and restrictive feminine ideals. The handbook also explores how therapeutic interventions (including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Dissonance, and many more) and public health and policy initiatives can inform scholarly, clinical, and prevention-based work in the field of eating disorders.

Download or read book Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice written by Patricia Lindsay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the Social Sciences for Midwifery Practice makes clear the links between social, anthropological and psychological concepts, midwifery practice and women’s experience of birth. Demonstrating how empathising with women and understanding the context in which they live can affect childbirth outcomes and experiences, this evidence-based text emphasises the importance of compassionate and humane care in midwifery practice. Exploring midwifery as an art, as well as a science, the authors collected here make the case for midwives as professionals working ‘with women’ rather than as birth technicians, taking a purely competency-based approach to practice. The book incorporates a range of pedagogical features to enhance student learning, including overall chapter aims and learning outcomes, ‘recommendations for practice’, ‘learning triggers’ to encourage the reader to delve deeper and reflect on practice, ‘application to practice’ case studies which ensure that the theory is related to contemporary practice, and a glossary of terms. The chapters cover perspectives on birth from sociology; psychology; anthropology; law; social policy and politics. Other chapters address important issues such as disability, politics and sexuality. Outlining relevant theory from the social sciences and clearly applying it to practice, this text is an essential read for all student midwives, registered midwives and doulas.

Download or read book ACT Verbatim for Depression and Anxiety written by Steven C. Hayes and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copublished with Context Press This collection of transcripts, organized and annotated by Michael P. Twohig and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) founder Steven C. Hayes, guides you through ACT-based therapy processes session-by-session. The transcripts featured in ACT Verbatim present common situations that arise in clinical practice, while the commentary explains how to identify the six target ACT processes and help clients work through them to achieve psychological flexibility. For the most detailed view of ACT therapy, the clinical transcripts included here follow the development of one client struggling with anger, anxiety, and depression. Since ACT is process- rather than technique-oriented, this kind of in the moment analysis is a singularly effective way to learn to apply this therapeutic model. These transcripts will help you: •Identify client indicators that suggest you should target a specific process in therapy •Create useful exercises to foster client development in the core processes of ACT •Evaluate client advancement and structure sessions for maximum progress •Learn the different styles other therapists use to implement ACT in their own ways