2. What does the author conclude about grief-work in light of the Cross?
a. Grief-work can be superior to the Cross if it promotes emotional healing when the Cross promotes denial.
b. Sometimes grief-work is identical to the Cross.
c. Grief-work must be done before participating in the Cross because grieving over one’s sins is a prerequisite for understanding the Cross.
d. Both are important, but reconciliation to God and others through the Cross is ultimately more meaningful than emotional healing accomplished via mourning.

Listening to Sexual Minorities on Christian College Campuses (Mark Yarhouse, Stephen P. Stratton, Janet Be. Dean, Heather L. Brooke) (p. 96-113)
3. What percent of participants attributed their same-sex attraction to environmental or social causes such as inadequacies in parental relations?
a. 2%
b. 16%
c. 27%
d. 53%

4. The most typical way that participants disclosed their same-sex experiences was to tell
a. family.
b. a youth pastor.
c. a counselor.
d. friends.

The Impact of Child-Parent Attachment, Attachment to God and Religious Orientation on Psychological Adjustment (Maureen Miner) (p. 114-124)
5. Which was NOT a conclusion of this study?
a. The compensation group (insecure child-parent and secure attachment to God) had the same scores as the correspondence positive group (high well-being scores and low anxiety scores).
b. The correspondence positive group (secure child-parent and secure attachment to God) scored highest on existential well-being and lowest on anxiety.
c. The correspondence negative group (insecure child-parent and insecure religious attachment) scored highest on anxiety and lowest on existential well-being.
d. One’s attachment to God has a small, significant association with well-being and anxiety above the effects of child-parent attachments.

Normative Thoughts, Normative Feelings, Normative Actions: A Protestant, Relational Psychoanalytical Reply to E. Christian Brugger and the Faculty of IPS (Lowell W. Hoffman and Brad D. Strawn) (p. 125-133)
6. For the authors, what distinguishes human beings from all other creatures?
a. Our possession of an immaterial and immortal soul.
b. Our being human persons who are redeemed.
c. Our capacity for relationship with God and each other.
d. Our being persons who can become holy.

7. Regarding emotions, the authors would AGREE with which statement?
a. Emotions should be mistrusted.
b. Rational decisions should be made with one’s intellect and will, without emotions.
c. Rational thought cannot occur without the availability of emotions.
d. Affects should be separated from cognitions.

8. How do the authors believe that people really change (the process of spiritual transformation)?
a. By applying cognitive knowledge to moral dilemmas.
b. By developing moral virtues which will activate good choices and the avoidance of evil.
c. By having their psyches stripped of irrational affects, cognitions, and object relations that are unconsciously motivating them.
d. By developing good habits which become part of our automaticity.

Differentiated Styles of Attachment to God and Varying Religious Coping Efforts ( Laura B. Cooper, A. Jerry Bruce, Marsha J. Harman, and Marcus T. Boccaccini) (p. 134-141)
9. Persons who are securely attached to God were apt to use ___ as a means of coping.
a. good deeds
b. self-reliance
c. leaning on clergy and church members
d. pleading with God

Featured Review -- Object Relations and Spirituality (p, 146-147)
10. Victor Schermer was forced to reconsider his theoretical position and include in it a dimension for the spiritual when he was exposed to a substance abuse treatment facility that based its intervention heavily on
a. William Glasser’s reality therapy.
b. cognitive-behavioral therapy.
c. the Alcoholics Anonymous approach.
d. Albert Ellis’ rational emotive therapy.