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Illuminating the Sacred
in Healing Relationships
Psychotherapy &
Faith Conference
for November 6, 2015
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24th Annual
Psychotherapy & Faith Conference
Friday, November 6, 2015
Illuminating the Sacred
in Healing Relationships
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Psychotherapy & Faith Conference
Illuminating the Sacred in Healing Relationships
November 6, 2015 | St. Martin’s Episcopal Church of Houston
7:15–
Registration & Light
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:00–
Opening Remarks &
8:15 a.m Invocation
John Graham, M.D.,
D.Min., The Institute for
Spirituality and Health
The Rev. Chad Hawkins,
CHI St. Luke’s Medical
Center
8:15–
9:15 a.m. Elizabeth Lewis
Hall, Ph.D.
Biola University
2:00–
3:00 p.m Healing the Wounds of
Trauma: Spirituality
Across Borders and
Faith Traditions
Matthew S. Stanford, Ph.D.
The Hope and Healing
Institute and Center
1:45–
2:00 p.m.
Holy Ground:
Recognizing the Sacred in
the Healing Process
The Rev. Salvador Del
Mundo, Jr., M.Div., M.B.A.,
The Menninger Clinic
3:00–
3:30 p.m. 9:15-
Keynote Presentation
10:45 a.m. Sacred Love: Uncovering
and Exploring the
Sanctity of Intimate
Relationships
Annette Mahoney, Ph.D.
Bowling Green State
University
Afternoon Break
Translating Concepts into
Clinical Practice
James W. Lomax, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Co-providers & Joint Providers
— The Institute for Spirituality and
Health, ish-tmc.org
— The Menninger Clinic,
menningerclinic.com
— Baylor College of Medicine,
bcm@tmc.edu
10:45–
Morning Break
11:00 a.m.
— The Hope and Healing Center & Institute, hopeandhealingcenter.org
11:00 a.m.– The Four Cornerstones of
Noon
the Human Organism
James Pittman
McGehee, D.D.
Private practice
Distinguished Faculty
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for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical
Perspective on Mental Illness” and “The
Biology of Sin: Grace, Hope, and Healing
for Those Who Feel Trapped.”
James W. Lomax, M.D.
Dr. James Lomax is the Brown Foundation
Chair in Psychoanalysis, Karl Menninger
Chair of Psychiatric Education, and
Associate Chairman and Director of
Educational Programs in the Menninger
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine.
He is an adjunct faculty member and
Board of Trustee member of The
Institute for Spirituality and Health at
the Texas Medical Center. Dr. Lomax has
been recognized in The Best Doctors
in America since its inception in 1992
and as a Texas Monthly Top Doc since
2003. He serves on the Board of Regents
of the American College of Psychiatrists.
Dr. Lomax’s clinical interests are in the
psychoanalytic treatment of anxiety,
mood, and personality disorders. His
scholarly interests include the interface
between religion, spirituality, and healing
from a psychiatric and psychoanalytic
Noon–
Blessing and Lunch
12:45 p.m. (provided)
perspective; sources of meaning in
medicine; and ways to teach, measure,
12:45–
Temples, Tombs, or
1:45 p.m Temptations? Religion
and the Body
and remediate issues of humanism and
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professionalism in medical education.
The Value of this
Long-running Conference
Now celebrating its 60th year, the
Institute for Spirituality and Health has
offered the Psychotherapy and Faith
Conference for the past 24 years. The
conference’s longevity is a testament to
the importance of faith to health and the
growing body of work in best practices for
providing effective, compassionate care to
people from all walks of life.
— “Increasingly, for over two decades
now, psychotherapists and other
professionals have come to value what
this conference has to share.”
John K. Graham, M.D., D.Min.,
The Institute for Spirituality and Health
— “While the history of the relationship
between psychotherapy, spirituality,
and religion has been difficult, the past
two decades have shown increasing opportunities for meaningful collaboration. This
year’s Conference will offer clinicians and
faith leaders the chance to hear from major
investigators to help us see and take much
better advantage of what our patients and
parishioners bring into our relationships with
them every day to relieve their suffering
and improve their health and well-being.”
James W. Lomax, M.D.,
Baylor College of Medicine
Continuing Education Facts
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educational experience.
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and Health, and the Hope and Healing
Center & Institute. The Menninger Clinic
is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to
provide continuing medical education
for physicians.
The Menninger Clinic designates this
live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA
PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™.
This live educational activity has
been planned and implemented in
accordance with the Essential Areas and
Policies of the Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
The Menninger Clinic maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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State Board of Social Worker Examiners
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See the Calendar of
Events on the
Menninger website or
contact Terrilynn Steele,
MSN, RN, in the Menninger Continuing
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Clinic maintains responsibility for this
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St. Martin’s
Episcopal Church
Presentation Absracts
This annual conference has grown to be the educational resource for mental
health professionals and others who meet the needs of people with a faith tradition.
Holy Ground:
Recognizing the Sacred in the
Healing Process
often perceive their marital and sexual
unions as embodying the sacred. Such
perceptions are tied to greater relational
happiness and motivate people to preserve and protect their intimate bonds.
Other evidence demonstrates that
people tend to suffer added emotional
and spiritual pain when divorce and
romantic break ups involve the loss or
violation of a sacred bond. Thus, the
sanctity of intimate relationships is a
topic that therapists may often need to
explore with their clients when treatment goals involving finding, maintaining,
or letting go of a union. In sum, this
presentation will help mental health
clinicians to engage in healing and
spiritually focused dialogues with clients
about their intimate relationships.
Presenter: The Rev. Salvador
Del Mundo, Jr., M.Div., M.B.A.
The work of pastoral counseling in the
hospital setting, as in other settings,
primarily involves listening to stories,
appreciating narratives as they are
presented, and helping the storytellers
interpret and make sense of their lived
experiences. Past hurts and present
fears often make it difficult for people to
begin imagining future stories without
pain and dread. For pastoral counselors,
the hoping process begins with being
mindful in listening to these stories so
they hear and recognize the patients’
yearning for the sacred. Drawing from
Andrew Lester (1995) and Ken
Pargament (2007), this presentation
will focus on vignettes that identify:
1) a yearning for the sacred heard from
patients receiving mental health care;
2) the despair and anxiety that lingers
when patients’ future stories seem
hopeless or cut off; and 3) the transformative capacity of experiencing the
sacred in their healing process, thus
allowing them to construct hopeful
future stories.
The Four Cornerstones
of the Human Organism
Presenter: J. Pittman McGehee, D.D.
Sacred Love:
Uncovering and Exploring
the Sanctity of
Intimate Relationships
Presenter: Annette Mahoney, Ph.D.
Compelling new scientific evidence will
be presented, illuminating that people
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Humans are bio-psycho-social-spiritual
beings. Each quadrant of our being
must have a conscious plan for hygiene.
Paying attention to our bodies is
obviously a healthy exercise, but our
attitudes toward our bodies may be as
important as diet and exercise. Psychology is the study of the human psyche.
Having a healthy psychological attitude
is essential to overall health. Many of
our illnesses begin as psychological
problems and wind up in our bodies.
Social being has to do with our relationships and how healthy people tend to
have healthy relationships. We must
pay close attention to our spiritual
being in order to have a whole life.
717 Sage Road
Bagby Parish Hall
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The Hall will be set up with chairs
and round tables for comfortable seating
and ease of note taking, enjoyment of
refreshments, and conversation with fellow participants.
Refunds
The Institute for Spirituality and Health will provide a full refund upon written request
at least two weeks before the live event. In the unlikely event the conference is cancelled,
prepaid registrants will be given a full refund.
balanced life that emphasizes the need
to embrace and attend to the interrelatedness of the bio-psycho-socialspiritual quadrants of human nature.
Requirements
Successful completion of this activity
requires (no partial credits will be
awarded):
• 100% attendance of activity
4. Distinguish healthy from unhealthy
forms of embodiment and identify
implications for clinical practice when
examining practical ways in which
religious beliefs influence these
experiences.
• Completed Education Activity
Evaluation
•
5. Identify psychological universal
concepts that can effectively guide
clinical and collaborative approaches
to mental health care across cultures.
Completed Application for Continuing Education
Continuing Education Credit
The Menninger Clinic has awarded
6.0 Contact/Credit/Clock hours to
the following disciplines: 6. Describe how to conceptualize
new opportunities in expanding clinical
interventions to include recognizing
“the sacred” as experienced in everyday
life by religious, spiritual but not religious, and even atheistic patients using
the concept of theistic versus nontheistic
sanctification.
Physicians: This activity has been
planned and implemented in accordance
with the accreditation requirements
and policies of the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education
(ACCME) through the joint providership
of The Menninger Clinic, Baylor College
of Medicing, The Insitute for Spirituality
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Continuing Education Facts
Target Audience—mental health professionals: physicians,
psychologists, registered nurses, social workers, addiction counselors,
licensed professional counselors, and licensed marriage and
family counselors
Others Who May Benefit: clergy, chaplains, theologians, spiritual
caregivers, and other professionals from religious communities
acknowledging and using the therapeutic
relationship as a means to address the
spiritual health needs of their patients.
Areas such as the sacred nature of
intimate relationships, the interconnectedness of spirituality and relationships, and directions of therapeutic
focus, as well as the qualities of a
therapeutic relationship, will be explored
in effort to illuminate how attention
to the sacred in healing relationships
can benefit both patients and health
care professionals as measured by the
enhanced ability to recognize and
value transformative experiences and
opportunities in healing relationships.
Practice Gap Statement
There is steadily emerging literature
about the influence of religious and
spiritual factors on health outcome.
Examples of this literature include
Positive and Negative Religious Coping
(Pargament, 1998), Spiritual Struggles
(Pargament and Lomax, under review),
and recent but very powerful data
about the importance of sanctification
or the significance of whether or not
one sees relationships and activities
as somehow sacred (Mahoney, 2013).
So far, however, the translation of this
research into clinical practice and even
mental health education is very uneven.
Our 24th annual conference will focus
on the important, accessible, but often
unrecognized consequences of considering one’s activities or relationships as
sacred. It will therefore help us to see
relevant and important qualities that
mental health professionals can benefit
their patients or clients by addressing
as part of the therapeutic plan and relationship. The therapeutic relationship
itself can be considered sacred which
has direct implications for the healing
professional as well as for the patient.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this learning activity,
participants should be able to:
1. Describe how therapeutic relationships have a unique opportunity
to share sacred experiences in the
healing process of constructing hopeful
future stories.
2. Describe the evidence and rationale
for engaging patients in healing and
spiritually focused dialogues about
their struggles and successes in finding,
maintaining, and letting go of intimate
relationships.
Learning Purpose Statement
The purpose of this educational activity
is to reinforce and expand the knowledge,
awareness, and competence of mental
health professionals in areas of
3. Discuss the potential healing
impact of examining and applying a
conceptual framework for living a
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conceptual level by all human beings
across cultures. Similarly, spiritual
universals are ideas, beliefs, and
values that are common to all faith
traditions, independent of culture.
Focusing on these “universals” allows
mental health care professionals to
easily and effectively work across
cultures and faith traditions. This
presentation will describe the
development and implementation
of a mental health provider training
program as well as a faith-based
support group intervention for
posttraumatic stress disorder in two
North African Muslim populations
(civil war combatants in Libya,
former child soldiers in Somalia)
and Christians (combat veterans,
sexual assault victims) within the
United States. The importance of
collaborative relationships between
faith leaders and mental health
providers in the care of those who
have been traumatized will also be
emphasized.
This lecture will expand on each quadrant
and show how inter-related each is to the
other, and further how each cornerstone
is essential to living a balanced and life
of wholeness.
Temples, Tombs, or
Temptations? Religion
and the Body
Presenter: Elizabeth Lewis Hall, Ph.D.
Positive embodiment involves a sense of
being “at one” with the body, awareness
of internal states, a sense of body functionality, body care, and a sense of freedom to express individuality through one’s
body. In contrast, disrupted embodiment
involves a sense of being disconnected
from one’s body, viewing the body as a
site of disempowerment, having a preoccupation with conforming to external
standards of appearance, and having
difficulty identifying needs, desires, and
internal states. Embodiment is shaped in
the dialectical relationship between the
body and its social context. As one aspect
of a person’s social context, religion is an
important alternative voice to many of the
predominant messages about the body in
contemporary culture. This presentation
will review existing research on religion
and the body and draw out implications
for clinical practice.
Translating Concepts into
Clinical Practice
Presenter: James W. Lomax, M.D.
This presentation will synthesize
the common themes explored
throughout the conference and
provide clinical examples that
demonstrate how being aware of the
potential for seeking the sacred in
healing relationships can inform and
enhance our professional encounters.
Healing the Wounds of
Trauma: Spirituality Across
Borders and Faith Traditions
Presenter: Matthew S. Stanford, Ph.D.
Psychological universals are core mental
attributes that are shared at some
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Introducing the Distinguished Faculty
Salvador Del Mundo, Jr.,
M.Div., M.B.A.
Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and
Spirituality, Vol. II.” She has received grant
funding from the Templeton Foundation,
The Rev. Del Mundo is currently the
the Fetzer Foundation, and Ohio Depart-
Director of Chaplaincy Services at
Mahoney
McGehee
Hall
StanfordLomax
ment of Mental Health. She created BGSU’s
The Menninger Clinic. He is a graduate
website on the Psychology of Spirituality
of the Philippine Baptist Theological
and Family Relationships to provide
Seminary in the Philippines and
researchers and lay people easy access to
completed a clinical pastoral
scientific data the role of faith, for better
education residency at St. Luke’s
and worse, in family life.
Episcopal Hospital (now CHI St. Luke’s
Health) in the Texas Medical Center.
J. Pittman McGehee, D.D.
As a pastoral counselor, the Rev.
Dr. J. Pittman McGehee is an Episcopal
Del Mundo’s primary passion is helping
priest and Jungian analyst in private
patients construct hopeful, future
practice in Austin, Texas. He is widely
stories for themselves. In 2011, he was
known as a lecturer and educator in the
honored with one of five Menninger
field of psychology and religion, as well
Pillar Awards, The Clinic’s highest
as a published poet and essayist. He is
honor for employees who demonstrate
the author of “The Invisible Church:
the organizations’ values of excellence,
Finding Spirituality Where You Are,”
teamwork, hope, integrity, and caring.
“Raising Lazarus: The Science of Healing
Annette Mahoney, Ph.D.
the Soul,” “Words Made Flesh,” and
“The Paradox of Love.”
Dr. Annette Mahoney is a professor at
Bowling Green State University and
Elizabeth Lewis Hall, Ph.D.
practicing clinical psychologist. She
Dr. Elizabeth Lewis Hall is Professor
specializes in research on relational
of Psychology at Rosemead School of
spirituality, or the roles that faith plays
Psychology, Biola University. In addition
for close relationships. She has con-
to teaching, she maintains a small clinical
ducted studies on dating, marriage,
practice. Her empirical research focuses
parenting, couples’ sexuality, and
on women’s issues and the psychology
divorce. She has published over 85
articles and co-edited the “APA
Del Mundo
Matthew S. Stanford, Ph.D.
of religion. She has contributed over 70
peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
Dr. Matthew S. Stanford is CEO of The
in these areas. Her most recent research
Hope and Healing Center & Institute
focuses on embodiment, ambivalent
(HHCI) in Houston. His research on
sexism, and motherhood ideology. In
the interplay between psychology and
2010 she was elected by her peers to
issues of faith has been featured by the
receive Biola University’s Robert B.
“New York Times,” “USA Today,” Fox,
Fischer Award for Faculty Excellence.
MSNBC, Yahoo, and “U.S. News & World
She recently served as president of
Report.” Dr. Stanford is a fellow of the
Division 36, Society for the Psychology
Association for Psychological Science.
of Religion and Spirituality, of the
As director of HHCI, he writes, conducts
American Psychological Association.
training seminars, and serves individuals
and families living with mental illness.
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He is the author of two books, “Grace
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