A Christian Worldview & Mental Health

A Seventh-day Adventist Perspective

Edited by:

Carlos Fayard

Barbara Couden Hernandez

Bruce Anderson

George T. Harding IV

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ISBN 978-1-883925-68-0

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A Christian worldview and mental health: Adventist perspectives / Carlos Fayard … [et al.], editors.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-883925-68-0 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Mental health—Religious aspects—Seventh-Day Adventists—Congresses. 2. Psychiatry and religion—Congresses. 3. Psychology and religion—Congresses. I. Fayard, Carlos, 1954–

BT732.4.C37 2011

261.5’15—dc23

2011012751

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS FOR BIBLE VERSIONS

SECTION 1: SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS AND MENTAL HEALTH

A Christian Worldview and Mental Health: An Introduction and Background to the Symposium

Carlos Fayard

Adventists and Mental Health: Remembering Who We Are

George T. Harding IV

SECTION 2: THEORETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS

Ellen White and Mental Health

Merlin D. Burt

Faith-Science Issues: An Epistemological Perspective

E. Edward Zinke

Christian Epistemological Foundations for the Behavioral Sciences

Miroslav M. Kiš

Mental Health and Human Wholeness: Implications from Biblical Anthropology

Richard Rice

Response to “Mental Health and Human Wholeness: Implications from Biblical Anthropology”

Bruce Anderson

The Science of Psychology and the Ethics of Freedom: An Adventist’s Perspective

Gerald R. Winslow

SECTION 3: RESEARCH: FAITH AND WELL-BEING

Scientific Research on the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Mental Health: Lessons, Positive Affirmations, and Disquieting Questions

David R. Williams

Sabbath as a Resource for Marriage

Jana K. Boyd

Children’s Perceptions of God’s Role in Their Families: An Exploratory Study

Barbara Couden Hernandez and Jamie D. Aten

SECTION 4: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS

Clinical Implications for the Practice of Psychotherapy from the Seventh-day Adventist Tradition: A Summary

Carlos Fayard

The Science of Forgiveness: Implications for Christian Faith

Henry H. Lamberton and Antonia Ciovica

A Personal Integration of God in Psychiatric Treatment: Alcoholics Anonymous as a Paradigm

David Mee-Lee and Bruce Anderson

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he”: Seventh-day Adventists with Maladaptive Beliefs and Compensatory Strategies in Psychotherapy

Kendal C. Boyd

Comprehensive Oncology Patient Services and the Organizational Mission “To Make Man Whole”: ...