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Toward Whole-Person Recovery: Spiritual Transcendence, New Meaning, and Renewed Self-Relationship After Traumatically-Acquired Physical Disability
No full textThe acquired physical disability population has been widely overlooked in research surrounding trauma, when in reality, a disabling injury or illness traumatizes a person entirely. Humans are emotional, psychological, spiritual, and embodied, so trauma to one area impacts each of the remaining domains. In the literature surrounding resilience after traumatic occurrence, however, researchers have seldom explored the acquired physical disability population. Concerning adjustment to trauma at large, researchers name several forms of enacting resilience. Amongst said methods, three in particular become salient: forming a cohesive narrative, meaning-making, and accessing spiritual transcendence. However, researchers have yet to examine each of these areas of resilience in the context of a broken body and subsequently impacted self-relationship. Furthermore, each of these areas of resilience have yet to be examined in connection to one another and remain a less comprehensive picture as a result. This lack of synthesis is problematic because bodily trauma shatters a person’s experiential sense of who they are and how they relate to the world. From that point on, they literally carry the trauma forward in their altered physicality. The author of this critical literature review examined the strengths, weaknesses, and missing points of connection in each of these areas of the literature. The current examination is supplemented by an illustrative example of a traumatic, disabling incident that called for an integrated understanding of self-relationship and personhood for renewal in recovery. In sum, this review of the current literature and accompanying illustration demonstrates why an integration of these elements of resilient recovery deserves examination in the literature surrounding the acquired physical disability population
Neighborhood Disorganization, Social Support, and Psychological Distress Among Salvadoran Adolescents
No full textEl Salvador is considered one of the most violent countries in the world. Although there is emerging research on the psychological impact of violence on adult citizens of El Salvador, little is known about the relationship between neighborhood characteristics (e.g., neighborhood disorganization) and adolescent psychological distress. With a sample of 902 Salvadoran adolescents, the researcher of this study examined the relationship between neighborhood disorganization and adolescents’ psychological distress and the potential moderating effect of perceived peer and adult social support (i.e., family and school adult) on this relationship. As predicted, family support buffered the positive relationship between neighborhood disorganization and psychological distress. Specifically, high levels of family support buffered the significant relationship between neighborhood disorganization and psychological distress. No significant interaction effect was found between neighborhood disorganization and school adult support or neighborhood disorganization and peer support on psychological distress. Results indicate the ill effects of neighborhood disorganization and the protective effect of family social support by mitigating psychological distress in Salvadoran adolescents. These findings highlight the importance of intervention efforts designed to increase social support, particularly family support, for adolescents living in disorganized neighborhoods in El Salvador
01 - Introduction
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33 - Appui-Tete, “Wooden pillow,” Batwa Tribe, Zaire
No full textFrom the Charles Kraft Collection Charles Kraft taught at Fuller from 1969-2011, and left many artifacts from his travels in Africa. In Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Kraft acquired pieces such as the Appui-Tete, Mukaba, and Nsen Gu. As a missionary anthropologist, Kraft believed the analysis of such objects help increase cross-cultural understanding and encourage the spread of a culture-affirming, rather than colonizing, Gospel.
Kraft’s combination of practical mission experience and academic research equipped generations of Fuller students to labor at the intersection of culture and theology.https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/exhibit_70thanniversary/1032/thumbnail.jp
From Plateau to Transformation: The Development of Learning Communities for Reformed Church in America Churches
Get PDFThe goal of this study was to argue that in order for churches to move off plateau and into transformation, they must engage an adaptive change process called a learning community. In the Reformed Church in America, a number of churches are aging and in a period of decline. The church in the twenty-first century ought to look and be different than the church has in the past, even as recently as a decade ago. The postmodern society and the rise of secularism have contributed to the decline in church attendance. The emergence of a new generation, social media, and the frenzied lifestyle of families have all contributed to the changing landscape of the church in North America.
The reasons for plateau were discussed in this study. A historical review of the RCA was provided along with a literature and theological review of adult learning, results-based conversations, and adaptive change. The study outlines the process of a learning community, as well as its goals and outcomes.
Content Reader: Bob Loga
Gracious Assertiveness: Learning to Lead a Staff Toward a New Missional Imagination
Get PDFThis study maintained two concurrent goals: First, it sought to strengthen the adaptive leadership capacities of a senior pastor by initiating a three-month action-learning experiment among the ministry staff. Second, it invited the ministry staff to begin a journey of discovering the leading of God’s Spirit in the local context. The work was conducted in First Presbyterian Church of Fort Dodge, Iowa, and within the local community.
Beginning with a look at the myriad changes that have transpired in the church and community during the past ten years, this project describes various types of change, the leadership philosophies that address different types of change, and how missional theology informs leadership. Adaptive leadership is required to address the discontinuous changes within the ministry context when seen through the lens of missional theology rooted in Luke 2, the missio Dei, and doctrine of the incarnation. In order to develop adaptive leadership capacities, the senior pastor lead the ministry staff in a three-month action-learning experiment in the community. The six members of the ministry staff devoted 10 percent of their work time to building relationships with people in the community, modeled after Luke 10:1-12. For accountability and reflection, the ministry staff met six times to share stories about their learning through Appreciative Inquiry questions and qualitative interview questions.
The study demonstrated that default assumptions of mission and ecclesiology are challenged when a staff experiments with new behaviors that require interaction with community members. This learning requires space for intentional reflection about the experimental behavior. The community experiments challenged specific defaults concerning reciprocity and managing expectations. While the staff reflection times challenged leadership defaults concerning technical leadership proficiency, accountability, clergy-centric ecclesiology. The study revealed the need for ongoing practices of action and reflection within the ministry context
13 - Two Presidents: Hubbard and Mouw
No full textPresident Hubbard (right) shakes hand with Provost Richard Mouw (center), who would later become his successor in office.https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/exhibit_70thanniversary/1012/thumbnail.jp
10 - Payton Hall and McAlister Library
No full textPayton Hall was constructed in 1953.
McAlister Library was constructed in 1963.https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/exhibit_70thanniversary/1009/thumbnail.jp
27 - Artifacts Introduction
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