METHOD We describe the cases of four patients with eating disorders in whom complex interactions occurred among religious faith, pathogenesis of the eating disorder, and clinical management. RESULTS In some of the cases, religious beliefs seemed to provide a containment of maladaptive behaviors, partly through prayer and through a sense of belonging to the religious community. In other cases,...

BACKGROUND The development and maintenance of students' professional behaviour and attitude is of increasing importance in medical education. Unprofessional behaviour in doctors has the potential to jeopardise patient safety, compromise working relationships, and cause disruption and distress. The General Medical Council issues guidance to medical schools and students describing the standards t...

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing death and ...

Maternal health service utilizations are poorly equipped, inaccessible, negligible, and not well documented in the pastoral society. This research describes a quantitative and qualitative study on the determinants of institutional delivery among pastoralists of Liben Zone with special emphasis on Filtu and Deka Suftu woredas of Somali Region, Ethiopia. The study was funded by the project "Foste...

Growing concern about sexual abuse covers many kinds of perpetrators. Therapist and clergy abusers have been increasingly targeted, yet clergy counselors who sexually abuse their clients have so far largely escaped effective sanctions from the courts. This article identifies the justifications given by these courts, identifying and evaluating their supporting arguments. This analysis suggests t...

The last two hundred years has witnessed a remarkable transformation in the world of work. In the early 19th century, the industrial revolution introduced the ability to mechanise processes previously performed by people. As a consequence, workplaces became larger and more complicated. Change was not limited to the physical nature of the workplace: workers were also required to work differently...

25 In 1963, I was living a triple life in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, where I grew up. From early morning until afternoon, I was a hematologist and the co-chair of the radioisotope laboratory at the Hospital Córdoba, a state and university hospital. In the late afternoon, I was teaching child and adolescent development at the newly founded (after the fall of the Perón dictatorship) Catholic...

The integration between psychology and Christianity has been a hot issue for Christian counselors since mid 1970s. The movement of integration has been developed in reaction to the acceptance of psychology in the area of pastoral counseling without any criticism about psychology from the Christian viewpoint. Since Jay Adams totally rejected psychology in the area of pastoral care, the effort to...

This essay frames an invitation to pastoral counselors and pastoral theologians to examine connections and perhaps interactions between themselves and traditional shamanic healers who use ayahuasca in their healing ceremonies. Indigenous people in South America have used ayahuasca for centuries, and the ritual has become common among the mestizo populations in urban areas of the Amazon, particu...

The metaphor or paradigm of a boundary separating a professional’s role, identity, needs, wishes, desires and actions from those of their patient or client has gained increasing currency in recent years (Gabbard and Nadelson, 1995). Boundary crossings and violations by professionals can be associated with or lead to sexual, financial and verbal abuse, domination and control of clients or patien...