Hetty Zock
Biographic Data
| ID | 368757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hetty Zock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hetty |
| FAMILY NAME | Zock |
| SIGNATURE | ZOCK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7318-5195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The role of pluralisms in the positions and functions of chaplains in Dutch outpatient, community or primary care settings: Secondary analysis of a multi-method comparative case study project
The transition from inpatient spiritual care to spiritual care in outpatient, community or primary care settings presents various challenges to chaplains. We have examined how chaplaincy organizations navigate different types of pluralism to find their function and position in these settings. Secondary analysis was performed on 37 thick descriptions of chaplaincy organizations, focus group discussions with three of these organizations, and 24 cli…
Positioning Chaplaincy in the Pluralistic and Multidisciplinary Dutch Care Context
The professional identity of chaplains is under question because of societal trends of disaffiliation from and pluralization of religion, and of deinstitutionalization of care. Chaplaincy in the Netherlands looks to discourse around "meaning" to navigate these challenges. The use of the term "meaning" as the central concept in the professional identity of chaplaincy (and, by extension, spiritual care) is not undisputed, however. There are three r…
Aandacht voor zingeving: Context en praktijk van geestelijke verzorging in het aardbevingsgebied van Groningen
Attention for Meaning-Making Processes: Context and Practice of Spiritual Care in the Earthquake Area of Groningen In the North of the Netherlands spiritual caregivers have been employed to respond to the social and personal needs resulting from human induced earthquakes. In the Netherlands knowledge on spiritual care in times of disasters is limited. Central to the present study are two questions: How is spiritual care being put into practice in…
Erik H. Erikson, Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (1958)
As part of NTT JTSR's series on Key Texts, the present article discusses Erik H. Erikson's interdisciplinary, psychohistorical study of the young Martin Luther, its reception, and its relevance for today. Erikson showed how Luther's own identity crisis – emerging from the troubled relationship with his father – converged with a crisis in late medieval society and theology, and how being a talented homo religiosus helped Luther to solve both crise…
Religious or Spiritual Experiences and Bipolar Disorder: A Case Study from the Perspective of Dialogical Self Theory
In this article, a case study will be presented of a person with bipolar I disorder, who struggles to interpret his religious experiences and how they are related to the disorder. The analysis builds on a larger study into religious experiences within the context of bipolar disorder (BD). In this previous study, medical and religious explanatory models for religious experiences related to BD often appeared to go hand in hand in patients who have …
Place Spirituality: An attachment perspective
The expression of attachment to the divine in certain places among different groups has been documented by anthropologists and sociologists for decades. However, the psychological processes by which this happens are not yet fully understood. This article focuses on the concept of ‘place spirituality’ as a psychological mechanism, which allows the religious believer or non-believer to achieve an organised attachment strategy, involving the interpl…
Holy Apparition or Hyper-Religiosity: Prevalence of Explanatory Models for Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Patients with Bipolar Disorder and Their Associations with Religiousness
One point that emerges from qualitative research on religion and bipolar disorder (BD) is the problem patients with BD experience in distinguishing between genuine religious experiences and hyper-religiosity. However, clinical practice does not obviously address communication about differences in explanatory models for illness experiences. The aim of the current study is first to estimate the frequencies of different types of explanations (medica…
Improving Spiritual Care in Hospitals in the Netherlands: What Do Health Care Chaplains Involved in an Action-Research Study Report
Health care chaplains participated in a multicenter trial to explore an implementation strategy for the Dutch multidisciplinary guideline for spiritual care. The intervention was concise spiritual care training for hospital staff of departments where patients in curative and palliative trajectories are treated. Data were collected in semistructured interviews with chaplains who acted as trainers, before and after the intervention. Results based o…
Human Development and Pastoral Care in a Postmodern Age: Donald Capps, Erik H. Erikson, and Beyond
This article discusses Donald Capps's use of Erik H. Erikson's life-cycle theory as the basic psychological framework for his theory of pastoral care. Capps was attracted to Erikson's existential-psychological model, his hermeneutic approach, and his religious sensitivity. Capps's thought develops from first exploring biblical foundations for using Eriksonian theory for pastoral care to gradually embracing certain postmodern features. The article…
Sweet Delight and Endless Night: A Qualitative Exploration of Ordinary and Extraordinary Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Bipolar Disorder
The authenticity of religious and spiritual experiences during mania is an important subject for bipolar patients. The exploration of such experience in bipolar disorder is the central point of this qualitative study. A psychiatrist and a hospital chaplain conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with recovered participants, recruited from mental health care institutions in the Netherlands, the patients’ association and via the internet, about the…
Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making Sense of Life in Times of Transition
In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. In this volume, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians examine the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self. The focus is on the multiple ways religious stories and practices feature in self-narratives about major life transitions. The contributions explore t…
Spiritual care in a hospital setting. An empirical-theological exploration
Book Reviews / Journal of Empirical Th eology 21 (2008) 133-148 145 Smeets, W. (2006). Spiritual care in a hospital setting. An empirical-theological exploration. (Empirical studies in theology, vol. 13.) Leiden: Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-15189-3 Th is empirical and theoretical study provides an excellent insight into the actual state of the spiritual care profession (hospital chaplaincy) in the Netherlands. Th e profession is in a progressive state…
Development and validation of the Dutch Questionnaire God Image: Effects of mental health and religious culture
This article presents the Dutch Questionnaire God Image (QGI), which has two theory-based dimensions: feelings towards God and perceptions of God's actions. This instrument was validated among a sample of 804 respondents, of which 244 persons received psychotherapy. Results showed relationships between the affective and cognitive aspect of the God image. The God image of psychiatric patients had a more negative and threatening nature than the God…
The Personal and Normative Image of God: The Role of Religious Culture and Mental Health
This article focuses on the difference between the personal God image and the God image that people perceive as normative, that is to say, the God image they believe they should have according to religious culture. A sample of 544 Dutch respondents, of which 244 received psychotherapy, completed the Dutch Questionnaire of God Images (QGI). In general, there appeared to be a discrepancy between the personal and the normative God image. Whether dis…
Dreams of passage: An object-relational perspective on a case of a Hindu death ritual
By examining the case of a death ritual in a Surinam-Hindu community in the Netherlands, the authors want to demonstrate the usefulness of object-relations theory in the study of religion. Because it focuses on the dynamic interaction between individual and culture, this psychological theory embraces a truly cultural-psychological approach. D.W. Winnicott’s idea of ‘transitional phenomena’ is central in this respect. Cultural activities, such as …
Image of God and personality pathology: An exploratory study among psychiatric patients
The associations between personality pathology according to DSM-IV, symptomatology and God image were examined among a group of 46 psychiatric patients. Features of personality disorders were assessed using the 'Questionnaire to Assess Personality Pathology', a self-report screener. God image was measured by means of the 'Questionnaire God Image'. Symptomatology was assesed by means of the SCL-90. The more personality pathology present, the more …
Men, Religion, and Melancholia: James, Otto, Jung, and Erikson
It is not by coincidence that the key figures in the psychology of religion - William James, Rudolf Otto, Carl Jung, and Erik Erikson - each fought a lifelong battle with melancholia, argues Donald Capps in this engrossing book. These four men experienced similar traumas in early childhood: each perceived a loss of mother's unconditional love. In the deep melancholy that resulted, they turned to religion. Capps contends that the main impetus for …
The Predominance of the Feminie Sexual Mode in Religion: Erikson's Contribution to the Sex and Gender Debate in Psychology of Religion
(1997). The Predominance of the Feminie Sexual Mode in Religion: Erikson's Contribution to the Sex and Gender Debate in Psychology of Religion. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 187-198
A Psychology of Ultimate Concern: Erik H. Erickson's Contribution to the Psychology of Religion
Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making Sense of Life in Times of Transition
In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. In this volume, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians examine the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self. The focus is on the multiple ways religious stories and practices feature in self-narratives about major life transitions. The contributions explore t…
The Predominance of the Feminie Sexual Mode in Religion: Erikson's Contribution to the Sex and Gender Debate in Psychology of Religion
(1997). The Predominance of the Feminie Sexual Mode in Religion: Erikson's Contribution to the Sex and Gender Debate in Psychology of Religion. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 187-198
Holy Apparition or Hyper-Religiosity: Prevalence of Explanatory Models for Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Patients with Bipolar Disorder and Their Associations with Religiousness
One point that emerges from qualitative research on religion and bipolar disorder (BD) is the problem patients with BD experience in distinguishing between genuine religious experiences and hyper-religiosity. However, clinical practice does not obviously address communication about differences in explanatory models for illness experiences. The aim of the current study is first to estimate the frequencies of different types of explanations (medica…
Sweet Delight and Endless Night: A Qualitative Exploration of Ordinary and Extraordinary Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Bipolar Disorder
The authenticity of religious and spiritual experiences during mania is an important subject for bipolar patients. The exploration of such experience in bipolar disorder is the central point of this qualitative study. A psychiatrist and a hospital chaplain conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with recovered participants, recruited from mental health care institutions in the Netherlands, the patients’ association and via the internet, about the…
Positioning Chaplaincy in the Pluralistic and Multidisciplinary Dutch Care Context
The professional identity of chaplains is under question because of societal trends of disaffiliation from and pluralization of religion, and of deinstitutionalization of care. Chaplaincy in the Netherlands looks to discourse around "meaning" to navigate these challenges. The use of the term "meaning" as the central concept in the professional identity of chaplaincy (and, by extension, spiritual care) is not undisputed, however. There are three r…
Religious or Spiritual Experiences and Bipolar Disorder: A Case Study from the Perspective of Dialogical Self Theory
In this article, a case study will be presented of a person with bipolar I disorder, who struggles to interpret his religious experiences and how they are related to the disorder. The analysis builds on a larger study into religious experiences within the context of bipolar disorder (BD). In this previous study, medical and religious explanatory models for religious experiences related to BD often appeared to go hand in hand in patients who have …
Dreams of passage: An object-relational perspective on a case of a Hindu death ritual
By examining the case of a death ritual in a Surinam-Hindu community in the Netherlands, the authors want to demonstrate the usefulness of object-relations theory in the study of religion. Because it focuses on the dynamic interaction between individual and culture, this psychological theory embraces a truly cultural-psychological approach. D.W. Winnicott’s idea of ‘transitional phenomena’ is central in this respect. Cultural activities, such as …
A Psychology of Ultimate Concern: Erik H. Erickson's Contribution to the Psychology of Religion
The Predominance of the Feminie Sexual Mode in Religion: Erikson's Contribution to the Sex and Gender Debate in Psychology of Religion
(1997). The Predominance of the Feminie Sexual Mode in Religion: Erikson's Contribution to the Sex and Gender Debate in Psychology of Religion. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 187-198
Men, Religion, and Melancholia: James, Otto, Jung, and Erikson
It is not by coincidence that the key figures in the psychology of religion - William James, Rudolf Otto, Carl Jung, and Erik Erikson - each fought a lifelong battle with melancholia, argues Donald Capps in this engrossing book. These four men experienced similar traumas in early childhood: each perceived a loss of mother's unconditional love. In the deep melancholy that resulted, they turned to religion. Capps contends that the main impetus for …
Image of God and personality pathology: An exploratory study among psychiatric patients
The associations between personality pathology according to DSM-IV, symptomatology and God image were examined among a group of 46 psychiatric patients. Features of personality disorders were assessed using the 'Questionnaire to Assess Personality Pathology', a self-report screener. God image was measured by means of the 'Questionnaire God Image'. Symptomatology was assesed by means of the SCL-90. The more personality pathology present, the more …
Dreams of passage: An object-relational perspective on a case of a Hindu death ritual
By examining the case of a death ritual in a Surinam-Hindu community in the Netherlands, the authors want to demonstrate the usefulness of object-relations theory in the study of religion. Because it focuses on the dynamic interaction between individual and culture, this psychological theory embraces a truly cultural-psychological approach. D.W. Winnicott’s idea of ‘transitional phenomena’ is central in this respect. Cultural activities, such as …
The Personal and Normative Image of God: The Role of Religious Culture and Mental Health
This article focuses on the difference between the personal God image and the God image that people perceive as normative, that is to say, the God image they believe they should have according to religious culture. A sample of 544 Dutch respondents, of which 244 received psychotherapy, completed the Dutch Questionnaire of God Images (QGI). In general, there appeared to be a discrepancy between the personal and the normative God image. Whether dis…
Spiritual care in a hospital setting. An empirical-theological exploration
Book Reviews / Journal of Empirical Th eology 21 (2008) 133-148 145 Smeets, W. (2006). Spiritual care in a hospital setting. An empirical-theological exploration. (Empirical studies in theology, vol. 13.) Leiden: Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-15189-3 Th is empirical and theoretical study provides an excellent insight into the actual state of the spiritual care profession (hospital chaplaincy) in the Netherlands. Th e profession is in a progressive state…
Development and validation of the Dutch Questionnaire God Image: Effects of mental health and religious culture
This article presents the Dutch Questionnaire God Image (QGI), which has two theory-based dimensions: feelings towards God and perceptions of God's actions. This instrument was validated among a sample of 804 respondents, of which 244 persons received psychotherapy. Results showed relationships between the affective and cognitive aspect of the God image. The God image of psychiatric patients had a more negative and threatening nature than the God…
Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making Sense of Life in Times of Transition
In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. In this volume, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians examine the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self. The focus is on the multiple ways religious stories and practices feature in self-narratives about major life transitions. The contributions explore t…
Sweet Delight and Endless Night: A Qualitative Exploration of Ordinary and Extraordinary Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Bipolar Disorder
The authenticity of religious and spiritual experiences during mania is an important subject for bipolar patients. The exploration of such experience in bipolar disorder is the central point of this qualitative study. A psychiatrist and a hospital chaplain conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with recovered participants, recruited from mental health care institutions in the Netherlands, the patients’ association and via the internet, about the…
Improving Spiritual Care in Hospitals in the Netherlands: What Do Health Care Chaplains Involved in an Action-Research Study Report
Health care chaplains participated in a multicenter trial to explore an implementation strategy for the Dutch multidisciplinary guideline for spiritual care. The intervention was concise spiritual care training for hospital staff of departments where patients in curative and palliative trajectories are treated. Data were collected in semistructured interviews with chaplains who acted as trainers, before and after the intervention. Results based o…
Human Development and Pastoral Care in a Postmodern Age: Donald Capps, Erik H. Erikson, and Beyond
This article discusses Donald Capps's use of Erik H. Erikson's life-cycle theory as the basic psychological framework for his theory of pastoral care. Capps was attracted to Erikson's existential-psychological model, his hermeneutic approach, and his religious sensitivity. Capps's thought develops from first exploring biblical foundations for using Eriksonian theory for pastoral care to gradually embracing certain postmodern features. The article…
Place Spirituality: An attachment perspective
The expression of attachment to the divine in certain places among different groups has been documented by anthropologists and sociologists for decades. However, the psychological processes by which this happens are not yet fully understood. This article focuses on the concept of ‘place spirituality’ as a psychological mechanism, which allows the religious believer or non-believer to achieve an organised attachment strategy, involving the interpl…
Holy Apparition or Hyper-Religiosity: Prevalence of Explanatory Models for Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Patients with Bipolar Disorder and Their Associations with Religiousness
One point that emerges from qualitative research on religion and bipolar disorder (BD) is the problem patients with BD experience in distinguishing between genuine religious experiences and hyper-religiosity. However, clinical practice does not obviously address communication about differences in explanatory models for illness experiences. The aim of the current study is first to estimate the frequencies of different types of explanations (medica…
Religious or Spiritual Experiences and Bipolar Disorder: A Case Study from the Perspective of Dialogical Self Theory
In this article, a case study will be presented of a person with bipolar I disorder, who struggles to interpret his religious experiences and how they are related to the disorder. The analysis builds on a larger study into religious experiences within the context of bipolar disorder (BD). In this previous study, medical and religious explanatory models for religious experiences related to BD often appeared to go hand in hand in patients who have …
Aandacht voor zingeving: Context en praktijk van geestelijke verzorging in het aardbevingsgebied van Groningen
Attention for Meaning-Making Processes: Context and Practice of Spiritual Care in the Earthquake Area of Groningen In the North of the Netherlands spiritual caregivers have been employed to respond to the social and personal needs resulting from human induced earthquakes. In the Netherlands knowledge on spiritual care in times of disasters is limited. Central to the present study are two questions: How is spiritual care being put into practice in…
Erik H. Erikson, Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (1958)
As part of NTT JTSR's series on Key Texts, the present article discusses Erik H. Erikson's interdisciplinary, psychohistorical study of the young Martin Luther, its reception, and its relevance for today. Erikson showed how Luther's own identity crisis – emerging from the troubled relationship with his father – converged with a crisis in late medieval society and theology, and how being a talented homo religiosus helped Luther to solve both crise…
Positioning Chaplaincy in the Pluralistic and Multidisciplinary Dutch Care Context
The professional identity of chaplains is under question because of societal trends of disaffiliation from and pluralization of religion, and of deinstitutionalization of care. Chaplaincy in the Netherlands looks to discourse around "meaning" to navigate these challenges. The use of the term "meaning" as the central concept in the professional identity of chaplaincy (and, by extension, spiritual care) is not undisputed, however. There are three r…
The role of pluralisms in the positions and functions of chaplains in Dutch outpatient, community or primary care settings: Secondary analysis of a multi-method comparative case study project
The transition from inpatient spiritual care to spiritual care in outpatient, community or primary care settings presents various challenges to chaplains. We have examined how chaplaincy organizations navigate different types of pluralism to find their function and position in these settings. Secondary analysis was performed on 37 thick descriptions of chaplaincy organizations, focus group discussions with three of these organizations, and 24 cli…
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