Counseling Depressed Women (Counseling and Pastoral Theology) [Paperback]

Susan J. Dunlap (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 1997 | Series: Counseling and Pastoral Theology

Why do women suffer depression twice as often as men? Susan Dunlap integrates findings from biology, psychology, sociology, and theology to discover that powerlessness is a cause of depression. Based on this understanding, she develops a pastoral theological response to bring hope to depressed women.

The purpose of the Counseling and Pastoral Theology series is to address clinical issues that arise among particular populations currently neglected in the literature on pastoral care and counseling. This series is committed to enhancing both the theoretical base and the clinical expertise of pastoral caregivers by providing a pastoral theological paradigm that will inform both assessment and intervention with persons in these specific populations.

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Susan J. Dunlap is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology at Duke University Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina.

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• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press; 1st edition (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0664256678
• ISBN-13: 978-0664256678
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Chapter One: Women, Depression, and Theology Chapter Two: Cognitive Therapy (Cognitive Therapy in the Parish Setting, A Typical course of Therapy, Cognitive Therapy and Women, Cognitive Therapy and the Biopsychosocial Model) Chapter Three: Social Location (Women and Access to Power, Cognitive Therapy and Resistance) Chapter Four: Self (Self and Intimacy, Self and Work, The Pastoral Counseling of Women's Selves, The Socially Constructed Self, The Bell Jar) Chapter Five: Relationship (Female Depression and Male Narcissism, Depression and Family Systems, Relationship as Resource in Pastoral Counseling, Writing a Woman's Life) Chapter Six: Women's Bodies (Women's Bodies as Commodities, Depression's Distortions and Culture's Lies, Physical Vulnerability, Women's Bodies and Reproduction) Chapter Seven: Anger (Anger and Depression, Social Context of Women's Anger, Christian Theology and Women's Anger, Depression as Strategy?, Pastoral Counseling of Angry Depressed Women) Chapter Eight: Hope (Hope, Care and Time; Women Hopefully Speaking of God, Qualities of Hope)