Rock: An Unlikely Metaphor for Spirituality, Family Therapy, Mental Health and Illness
This article brings together fragments of a conceptual scheme and a number of big ideas: religious faith, contexts of African American spirituality, mental health and illness; and family therapy and the extended metaphor of sedimentary rock formation. Religion and spirituality are used somewhat inte...
| Published in: | Pastoral psychology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2017]
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Pastoral psychology
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture FD Contextual theology KBQ North America RG Pastoral care |
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Systemic thinking in family therapy
B Spirituality B Mental Illness B Sedimentary rock B African American religion B Religion B Faith B Mental Health B Metaphor B Second-chance ethic B Numinous B Cognitive mapping B Family psychotherapy B Skirts B Cognitive minority B Reciprocal morality |
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| Summary: | This article brings together fragments of a conceptual scheme and a number of big ideas: religious faith, contexts of African American spirituality, mental health and illness; and family therapy and the extended metaphor of sedimentary rock formation. Religion and spirituality are used somewhat interchangeably in this essay to signify embodied spirituality and sacred unity. The rock metaphor captures the idea of multiple entities that, like layers of sedimentary rock, make up families and communities and provide cohesion and a connection with the past. The rock metaphor captures the quality of hardness that may have either a positive of negative meaning and that allows for resilience in the face of adversity. Both qualities can be found in African American spirituality and Black churches. Both qualities have a relationship with the numinous. The qualities of the rock and their relationship with the numinous offer family therapists' new insights and ways to think about how to approach a clinical presentation. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-017-0783-z |