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The Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling
(Summer 2002 Vol. 56, No. 2)

[Answer 7 of 10 questions correctly to receive 6 hours of Continuing Education credit]

Pastoral Counseling (VanKatwyk)

1. Thomas Moore defines “psychological modernism” as an uncritical acceptance of the values of the modern world. This includes

a. blind faith in technology.

b. inordinate attachment to material gadgets.

c. devotion to the electronic media.

d. all of the above

 

2. Allen Bergin coined the term ______ as the presence of a “transcendent spiritual guidance” for the counselor.

a. meta-empathy

b. holding environment

c. lodgement

d. transcendental core

 

Depth Psychology (McNish)

3. The author, an Episcopal minister, reframes sin as

a. falling short of God’s glory.

b. attempts to destroy love, even God’s love.

c. missing the mark.

d. violating God’s laws.

 

4. The author helped 19-year-old Maria by

a. casting out a demon.

b. telling family services about her abusive parents.

c. asking her to listen for God’s voice.

d. referring her to a psychologist.

 

Pneumatraumatology (Bidwell)

5. Zurheide identifies four religious responses to suffering. Which is the “disciplinarian” posture?

a. “It is God’s will.”

b. “God is teaching me something.”

c. “God is testing me.”

d. “God is punishing me.”

 

6. The realization that the sensual and material cannot satisfy occurs during the _______ level.

a. spirituality of light

b. spirituality of cloudiness

c. spirituality of darkness

 

7. One task of the pneumatraumatologist is to help trauma victims

a. understand why God allows suffering.

b. understand a God who cannot be grasped through logic.

c. stop questioning God.

d. stop being angry at God.

 

Supervision of Ministry (LaMotte)

8. An unconscious reason why supervision is often avoided is

a. busyness.

b. affordability.

c. shame.

d. lack of results

 

Care Teams (Sunderland)

9. In 1985, Interfaith Care Partners’ first project assisted family caregivers with in-home

a. HIV/AIDS patients.

b. Alzheimer’s patients.

c. cancer patients.

d. stoke patients.

 

10. Because some families have difficulty accepting support, Care Teams avoid referring to what they do as

a. a partnership.

b. a ministry.

c. helping.

d. interdependence.