 | 6th Annual Mid-Year Conference on Religion and Spirituality
Feb. 29 and March 1, 2008
Pre-Conference Feb. 28, 2008 |
Invited Speakers Announced Early-Bird Registration discounts end Feb. 1. The 6th Annual Mid-Year Conference on Religion and Spirituality will be held on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 29 and March 1, 2008, at the Loyola Columbia Graduate Center in Columbia, MD. The Pre-Conference seminars will be held on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008. The Conference represents a joint partnership between Division 36 (Psychology of Religion) of the American Psychological Association and provides a supportive academic forum where professionals discuss the latest research findings and scientific advances in the field. There is no other professional conference with a major purpose of promoting research in religion and spirituality. Invited speakers for the Friday/Saturday Conference are: MERLE JORDAN, Th.D. - All Psychotherapy is Clinical Theology - Emeritus Professor of Pastoral Psychology at Boston University School of Theology JAMES W. JONES, Psy.D., Ph.D., Th.D. - Violence on the Mind—Violence, Religion and Contemporary American Christianity - Professor of Religion and adjunct professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a lecturer in Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden ANNETTE MAHONEY, Ph.D. - Marriage and Pregnancy Through the Lens of the Sacred: A Descriptive Study of a Community Sample of Pregnant Married Couples - Professor at Bowling Green State University RAY PALOUTZIAN, Ph.D. - Psychology, Religion, and the Far Reach of the Meaning System Analysis Psychology Department, Westmont College, co-editor of “Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality” LEE KIRKPATRICK, Ph.D., - Dept. of Psychology, College of William & Mary, author of “Attachment, Evolution, and the Psychology of Religion” Pre-Conference - Thursday, Feb. 28 Speakers and Titles #1 Healing Emotional Affective Response to Trauma (HEART), A Christian Model for Working With Traumatized Clients - Presented by Benjamin B. Keyes, PhD, Ed.D, LPC – 9:30 am – 4:30 pm #2 Sexuality and Spirituality: Challenges to Integration from a Clinical Perspective - Presented by Sheila Harron, Ph.D. 9:30 am – 12:30 pm #3 Trauma, Resilience and the Spirit - Presented by Maria Mouratidis, Psy.D. - 9:30 am – 12:30 pm #4 Helping Clergy Achieve Healthy Psychological Integration - Presented by James Burns, Ph.D., and David Marcotte, Ph.D., S.J. 9:30 am – 12:30 pm #5 A Cognitive-Theological Approach to Supermodern Anxiety - Presented by Kirk Bingaman, Ph.D. – 9:30 am – 12:30 pm #6 Evidence Based Clinical Practice with Religious and Spiritual Issues - Presented by William L. Hathaway, Ph.D., 1:30 pm –4:30 pm #7 Working With Groups From Beginning to End: Creative Activities to Use Purposefully in All Stages of Group Development - Presented by Joan Saltman, Ph.D. - 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm #8 Clinical Research from a Spiritual and Religious Perspective - Presented by Brian McCorkle, Ph.D. - 1:30 am – 4:30 pm | 
