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Where Does The Church Stand In Today’S Mental Health Landscape?, Noah T. Mursu

Honors Capstone Projects

Religious involvement in care for those living with mental illness has been going on for centuries, and perspectives on it have changed throughout the years. This literature review evaluates the place of religious groups, mainly Christian churches, in today's mental health situation by considering past and present involvement. It incorporates sources regarding different eras of mental hospital reform, modern perspectives of mental health clinicians and clergy, and the current gaps in mental health support among a variety of groups, including veterans, African Americans, and people in developing countries. This review then considers potential future involvement, especially considering how these gaps …

Ciis Today, Fall 2007 Issue, Ciis

CIIS Today

This volume is the Fall 2007 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Tips, Volume 23, No. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, 2003/2004, Wolf P. Wolfensberger

Training Institute Publication Series (TIPS)

• The Family

• Heterosexual Sex Outside Marriage

• Finding a Mate

• Marriage is Forever--Sort of

• Changes in Family Life

• The Self-Centered Mind-Set in Modernistic Marriage

• Marriage/Family & Money

• The Issue of Legalizing Some Form of Union Between Homosexuals

• Children

• Hostility Toward Children

• Abandonment/Neglect of Children by Their Parents, & Its Legitimization by the Intelligentsia

• Children Swimming In, & Being Junked by, Material Goods & Indulgences

• Child Health & Attacks Thereon

• Child Junking--Inducing Children Into Early Sexuality, Sexual Immorality, or Seductiveness

• Real & Purported Child Abuse, Including Sex …

Tips, Volume 15, No. 5 & 6, And Volume 16, No. 1, 1996, Wolf P. Wolfensberger

Training Institute Publication Series (TIPS)

• The Abortion Scene

• Abortion History

• Abortion Statistics

• Who Gets Abortions?

• Who Does the Aborting?

• All the Same to Me

• Promotion! Advocacy for Abortion

• Brave New World

• Advocacy Against Abortion

• Mixed News on Advocacy for or Against Abortion

• Attempts to Compel Health Workers to Participate in Abortions in Violation of Their Conscience

• Issues of Coherency in Abortion Positions

• Abortion Protests & Abortion Clinic Confrontations

• Prenatal Tests & Abortion

• The Interpretation of Abortifacients as Contraceptives, & Their Injuries to Women

• The RU 486 Abortion Method

• …

Tips, Volume 08, No. 2, 1988, Wolf P. Wolfensberger

Training Institute Publication Series (TIPS)

• The Deathmaking Scene

• Societal Deathmaking as the Backdrop to More Specific Types of Killing

• Privatization of Deathmaking

• Deathmaking via Surrogate Decision-Making

• Pre-Birth Deathmaking

• More Utilitarianism

• Perinatal Deathmaking

• Making Dead the Children

• Disdain for Child Health & Safety

• Sexual Exploitation of Children

• "Euthanasia"

• The Slippery Slope is Alive, "Well," & Slippery

• Official/Legitimized Medical "Euthanasia"

• Free-Lance "Euthanasia" by Medical Care Personnel

• Private "Euthanasia"

• Suicide, & Its Promotion

• Deathmaking via Low Quality Practices or Abuse in Human Services

• Iron Stomach?

• The Deceptions Surrounding Deathmaking …

Tips, Volume 01, No. 4, 1981, Wolf P. Wolfensberger

Training Institute Publication Series (TIPS)

• Let There Be Peace on Earth & Mercy Mild for Every Woman, Man & Child

• The International Scene

• An Example of Total Comprehensive Delegated Emergency Planning

• The Third World

• Violence in Society

• Violence in Human Services

• Violence By Whom, Against Whom?

• Do Societally Devalued People Enjoy Being Restrained or Even Abused?

• Human Service Workers as Executioners?

• A Dubious Love at Love Canal

• The Dynamics of Violence

• Remember the Underworld

• Nightmares of Human Service & Our Times

• Describe Hell!

• Remember Those in Prison

• The Lady …