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Grief And Spiritual Coping: The Practices Of Three Generations Of Faith, Ron Bruner, Dudley Chancey Apr 2021

Grief And Spiritual Coping: The Practices Of Three Generations Of Faith, Ron Bruner, Dudley Chancey

Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry

Among the more important tasks of ministry is assisting congregants dealing with the grief that permeates life. This project seeks to discover and describe spiritual coping practices, positive and negative, among three-generation families within Churches of Christ. This qualitative work reviews relevant literature, defines research questions for this research, details the methodology used to obtain data, describes the sample from which these data were obtained, and reports the results. Thematic analysis of narratives obtained in this qualitative study provides an enriched understanding of spiritual coping with life stressors that is useful for practitioners of clinical and pastoral counseling.


When Money Can’T Be Avoided: Helping Money Avoidant Widows Using The Changes And Grief Model (Fta Best Paper Award), Deb Finnegan Biever, Nipa Patel, Ashley Agnew, Daniel Kopp, Jodi Krausman, Megan A. Mccoy Jan 2021

When Money Can’T Be Avoided: Helping Money Avoidant Widows Using The Changes And Grief Model (Fta Best Paper Award), Deb Finnegan Biever, Nipa Patel, Ashley Agnew, Daniel Kopp, Jodi Krausman, Megan A. Mccoy

Journal of Financial Therapy

Widows represent one of the fastest-growing demographics due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Many widows also lost their family’s financial manager because more men hold the role of household financial manager. When their spouse dies, the widow can experience unhealthy attitudes towards finances and financial anxiety. The Changes and Grief Model for Financial Guidance pairs financial therapy techniques and inquiry methods, such as The Work of Byron Katie®, with the grief process and the change cycle. Using this model enables financial practitioners, mental health practitioners, and financial therapists to recognize the stage of grief the widow is experiencing and use …