A Person-Centered Approach to Psychospiritual Maturation: Mentoring Psychological Resilience and Inclusive Community in Higher Education - Hardcover

Kass, Jared D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319579185 ISBN 13: 9783319579184

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This book addresses the need for maturational growth in undergraduate and entry-level graduate students as a foundation for professional and civic development. It presents an engaged learning curriculum for higher education, Know Your Self, which strengthens psychological resilience and interpersonal community-building skills through person-centered growth in five dimensions of self: bio-behavioral, cognitive-sociocultural, social-emotional, existential-spiritual, and resilient worldview formation. This growth promotes well-being and a positive campus culture, preparing students to build cultures of health, social justice, and peace in the social systems where they will work and live. This project emerged from Kass’ professional work in humanistic psychology with Dr. Carl Rogers. Case studies and statistical data illustrate the formation of health-promoting, pro-social behaviors, culturally-inclusive community building, and secure existential attachment. This book will help faculty and student life professionals address the urgent need in young adults for person-centered psychospiritual maturation.

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From the Back Cover

This book presents an engaged learning curriculum for higher education that helps emerging adults and professionals-in-training develop psychological resilience and community-building interpersonal skills. The curriculum mentors a person-centered process of psychospiritual maturation through growth in five dimensions of self: bio-behavioral, cognitive-sociocultural, social-emotional, existential-spiritual, and resilient worldview formation. This growth promotes student well-being and a positive campus culture, while preparing them to build cultures of health, social justice, and peace in the social systems where they will work and live.

About the Author

Jared D. Kass is a Professor of Counseling and Psychology at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, and a Visiting Scholar at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3319579185
• ISBN 13: 9783319579184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 403