Spiritual Orientation of Youth from the Perspective or Humanist and Orthodox Therapies (original) (raw)
2013, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Religion has become an important variable for those researchers in psychology who have constantly tried to describe and understand the spiritual experience of high school students and undergraduates from a psychological perspective. The most challenging aspect of each research has been to correlate the religious feeling to other types of values than the religious values. Most researchers have concluded that the religious feeling is rooted in childhood. This research paper is far from being part of a psychology of religion but of a certain dimension of personal psychology; precisely, the descriptive design encompasses the humanist psychotherapy on the one hand and orthodox psychotherapy on the other hand and translates the stages of orthodox psychotherapy in psychological language ;the stages of soul healing include amongst other actions the priest taking over the role of the psychotherapist. The methods include a questionnaire applied on young adults that investigates the extend to which both humanist and orthodox therapies are important in their life, their relationship with God and what the psychological balance means to them and how they see life fulfillment. The results of the research emphasize the fact that living, in a personal and unique manner, the relationship with God may be and it actually serves as a catalyst of harmonious personal development.
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