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Papers by J Roland Fleck
The process of integrating religion and spirituality into one’s daily life is a developmental ide... more The process of integrating religion and spirituality into one’s daily life is a developmental identity process. There are numerous religious-spiritual issues which clients present that represent differing patterns of religiousspiritual identity resolution and the overall developmental nature of the religious-spiritual journey. Religiousspiritual issues are potentially neither easier nor more difficult for therapists to work with than any other core developmental issue. Most of the previous work in this field has placed most of the emphasis on the role of the therapist in the religious-spiritual integration process. However, the integration of spirituality in clinical practice is mainly the work of the client. The integration of the religious-spiritual into a person’s life is an ongoing developmental task that clients can work on within the therapeutic milieu. The work of the therapist is more about facilitating process than focusing on the particular content. Five cases are presente...
Parenting is a difficult challenge for anyone. Immigrant parents find their roles and relationshi... more Parenting is a difficult challenge for anyone. Immigrant parents find their roles and relationships with their children change, and these children are vulnerable to a number of risk factors especially during adolescence that diminish the influence of the parents in the acculturation process. The risk factors include: Language issues including a linguistic separation between parents and children which becomes symbolic of a profound emotional separation; economic stressors in which the main reason for which many families emigrate, i.e., economic betterment, becomes the source of greatest stress; differing parenting practices including the challenge of raising their children in a new seemingly unsupportive and permissive culture; and identity development where the adolescent identity process can be stressed by the difficulties inherent in negotiating two cultures and the perception of not fitting well into the new mainstream culture. A number of suggestions for culturally-sensitive ass...
Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1973
41 and 39 Ss participating in two different 3 1/2 week seminars focusing on psychological and the... more 41 and 39 Ss participating in two different 3 1/2 week seminars focusing on psychological and theological growth experiences were pre and post-tested with three personality scales: The Tennessee Self Concept Scale, Rokeach Dogmatism Scale, and Personal Orientation Inventory. The study attempted to measure Ss’ behavior change through pretest-posttest differences. A hypothesis of no significant measured change was supported in the results of two tests (Tennessee Self Concept Scale and Rokeach Dogmatism Scale). However, the Ss showed significant change on most of the 12 scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory. Further analysis on the first group revealed that a significant negative correlation (r = −.40, p.05).
The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy & Counselling, 2013
PsycEXTRA Dataset
Parenting is a difficult challenge for anyone. Immigrant parents find their roles and relationshi... more Parenting is a difficult challenge for anyone. Immigrant parents find their roles and relationships with their children change, and these children are vulnerable to a number of risk factors especially during adolescence that diminish the influence of the parents in the acculturation process. The risk factors include: Language issues including a linguistic separation between parents and children which becomes symbolic of a profound emotional separation; economic stressors in which the main reason for which many families emigrate, i.e., economic betterment, becomes the source of greatest stress; differing parenting practices including the challenge of raising their children in a new seemingly unsupportive and permissive culture; and identity development where the adolescent identity process can be stressed by the difficulties inherent in negotiating two cultures and the perception of not fitting well into the new mainstream culture. A number of suggestions for culturally-sensitive assessment and intervention are provided as well as suggestions for becoming a culturally-sensitive person and therapist.
Psychological Reports, 1981
The purpose of this study was to examine whether an inverse relationship exists between defensive... more The purpose of this study was to examine whether an inverse relationship exists between defensive repression and empathy. Defensive repression was assessed by scores of 16 male and 28 female freshmen of a religious college on the Byrne Repression-Sensitization Scale and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Empathy was assessed by Carkhuff's rating procedures for empathy and four scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory. Defensive repressors were significantly less empathic than nondefensive repressors on written responses. Defensive repressors scored significantly lower on the Feeling Reactivity scale and the Acceptance of Aggression scale of the Personal Orientation Inventory. The Existentiality and Capacity for Intimate Contact scales did not discriminate between the two groups. 43800 Biola Ave., La Mirada, CA 90639.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
An investigation of the relationship of field-independence-dependence and verbal mediation-nonmed... more An investigation of the relationship of field-independence-dependence and verbal mediation-nonmediation to Piagetian conservation behavior in 88 kindergarten, first, and second grade boys. It was hypothesized that the field-independent and the verbally mediating boys will have grasped the principle of conservation to a significantly greater degree than field-dependent and nonmediating boys. The Children's Embedded-figures Test and a reversal-nonreversal shift task were administered in order to categorize the boys on the two main effect dimensions of field independence-dependence and verbal mediation-nonmediation. The Concept Assessment Kit-Conservation was administered to measure the ability of each boy to conserve. The procedure resulted in a three-way irregular analysis of variance design. The main effect of field independence was significant as hypothesized ( p < .05). Grade was also significant ( p < .01), but neither the verbal mediation main effect nor any of the int...
The Journal of Psychology, 1980
... A Q-technique correlational analysis between personality profiles, with all 16 personality va... more ... A Q-technique correlational analysis between personality profiles, with all 16 personality variables included, yielded coefficients of Y (14) = .475, p > .05 between intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientations; Y (14) = ,281, p > .05 between intrinsic and nonreligious orientations ...
Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1975
Three Piagetian stages of cognitive development (i.e., preoperational thought, concrete operation... more Three Piagetian stages of cognitive development (i.e., preoperational thought, concrete operational thought, and formal operational thought) are proposed as a model consistent with research findings on the development of religious concepts and religious maturity. The research findings of Harms (conception of God; 1944), Deconchy (conception of God; 1965), Elkind (conception of religious denomination; 1961, 1962, 1963), Long, Elkind, and Spilka (conception of prayer; 1967), and Goldman (religious thinking; 1964; 1970) are presented as supporting the three-stage Piagetian model for religious concept development. The research findings of Allen (1965) and Allen and Spilka (1967) concerning consensual (i.e., immature) and committed (i.e., mature) religious orientation are presented as generally supporting the Piagetian model in the area of religious maturity.
The process of integrating religion and spirituality into one’s daily life is a developmental ide... more The process of integrating religion and spirituality into one’s daily life is a developmental identity process. There are numerous religious-spiritual issues which clients present that represent differing patterns of religiousspiritual identity resolution and the overall developmental nature of the religious-spiritual journey. Religiousspiritual issues are potentially neither easier nor more difficult for therapists to work with than any other core developmental issue. Most of the previous work in this field has placed most of the emphasis on the role of the therapist in the religious-spiritual integration process. However, the integration of spirituality in clinical practice is mainly the work of the client. The integration of the religious-spiritual into a person’s life is an ongoing developmental task that clients can work on within the therapeutic milieu. The work of the therapist is more about facilitating process than focusing on the particular content. Five cases are presente...
Parenting is a difficult challenge for anyone. Immigrant parents find their roles and relationshi... more Parenting is a difficult challenge for anyone. Immigrant parents find their roles and relationships with their children change, and these children are vulnerable to a number of risk factors especially during adolescence that diminish the influence of the parents in the acculturation process. The risk factors include: Language issues including a linguistic separation between parents and children which becomes symbolic of a profound emotional separation; economic stressors in which the main reason for which many families emigrate, i.e., economic betterment, becomes the source of greatest stress; differing parenting practices including the challenge of raising their children in a new seemingly unsupportive and permissive culture; and identity development where the adolescent identity process can be stressed by the difficulties inherent in negotiating two cultures and the perception of not fitting well into the new mainstream culture. A number of suggestions for culturally-sensitive ass...
Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1973
41 and 39 Ss participating in two different 3 1/2 week seminars focusing on psychological and the... more 41 and 39 Ss participating in two different 3 1/2 week seminars focusing on psychological and theological growth experiences were pre and post-tested with three personality scales: The Tennessee Self Concept Scale, Rokeach Dogmatism Scale, and Personal Orientation Inventory. The study attempted to measure Ss’ behavior change through pretest-posttest differences. A hypothesis of no significant measured change was supported in the results of two tests (Tennessee Self Concept Scale and Rokeach Dogmatism Scale). However, the Ss showed significant change on most of the 12 scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory. Further analysis on the first group revealed that a significant negative correlation (r = −.40, p.05).
The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy & Counselling, 2013
PsycEXTRA Dataset
Parenting is a difficult challenge for anyone. Immigrant parents find their roles and relationshi... more Parenting is a difficult challenge for anyone. Immigrant parents find their roles and relationships with their children change, and these children are vulnerable to a number of risk factors especially during adolescence that diminish the influence of the parents in the acculturation process. The risk factors include: Language issues including a linguistic separation between parents and children which becomes symbolic of a profound emotional separation; economic stressors in which the main reason for which many families emigrate, i.e., economic betterment, becomes the source of greatest stress; differing parenting practices including the challenge of raising their children in a new seemingly unsupportive and permissive culture; and identity development where the adolescent identity process can be stressed by the difficulties inherent in negotiating two cultures and the perception of not fitting well into the new mainstream culture. A number of suggestions for culturally-sensitive assessment and intervention are provided as well as suggestions for becoming a culturally-sensitive person and therapist.
Psychological Reports, 1981
The purpose of this study was to examine whether an inverse relationship exists between defensive... more The purpose of this study was to examine whether an inverse relationship exists between defensive repression and empathy. Defensive repression was assessed by scores of 16 male and 28 female freshmen of a religious college on the Byrne Repression-Sensitization Scale and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Empathy was assessed by Carkhuff's rating procedures for empathy and four scales of the Personal Orientation Inventory. Defensive repressors were significantly less empathic than nondefensive repressors on written responses. Defensive repressors scored significantly lower on the Feeling Reactivity scale and the Acceptance of Aggression scale of the Personal Orientation Inventory. The Existentiality and Capacity for Intimate Contact scales did not discriminate between the two groups. 43800 Biola Ave., La Mirada, CA 90639.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1972
An investigation of the relationship of field-independence-dependence and verbal mediation-nonmed... more An investigation of the relationship of field-independence-dependence and verbal mediation-nonmediation to Piagetian conservation behavior in 88 kindergarten, first, and second grade boys. It was hypothesized that the field-independent and the verbally mediating boys will have grasped the principle of conservation to a significantly greater degree than field-dependent and nonmediating boys. The Children's Embedded-figures Test and a reversal-nonreversal shift task were administered in order to categorize the boys on the two main effect dimensions of field independence-dependence and verbal mediation-nonmediation. The Concept Assessment Kit-Conservation was administered to measure the ability of each boy to conserve. The procedure resulted in a three-way irregular analysis of variance design. The main effect of field independence was significant as hypothesized ( p < .05). Grade was also significant ( p < .01), but neither the verbal mediation main effect nor any of the int...
The Journal of Psychology, 1980
... A Q-technique correlational analysis between personality profiles, with all 16 personality va... more ... A Q-technique correlational analysis between personality profiles, with all 16 personality variables included, yielded coefficients of Y (14) = .475, p > .05 between intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientations; Y (14) = ,281, p > .05 between intrinsic and nonreligious orientations ...
Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1975
Three Piagetian stages of cognitive development (i.e., preoperational thought, concrete operation... more Three Piagetian stages of cognitive development (i.e., preoperational thought, concrete operational thought, and formal operational thought) are proposed as a model consistent with research findings on the development of religious concepts and religious maturity. The research findings of Harms (conception of God; 1944), Deconchy (conception of God; 1965), Elkind (conception of religious denomination; 1961, 1962, 1963), Long, Elkind, and Spilka (conception of prayer; 1967), and Goldman (religious thinking; 1964; 1970) are presented as supporting the three-stage Piagetian model for religious concept development. The research findings of Allen (1965) and Allen and Spilka (1967) concerning consensual (i.e., immature) and committed (i.e., mature) religious orientation are presented as generally supporting the Piagetian model in the area of religious maturity.