Randall Lehmann Sorenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4223901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randall Lehmann Sorenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randall Lehmann |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorenson |
| SIGNATURE | SORENSON R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rosemead School of Psychology Biola University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to Anticipate Predictions about Integration'S Future Trends
Predictions about integration's future offer dizzying and crisscrossing contradictions. The present special issue of the Journal threatens to add even more, arising, as it does, from a legitimate restlessness with the status quo in evangelical integrative literature of past decades. My own contribution here could best be described as meta-analytic. Mine is not an exercise in prognostication per se, or one more pronouncement about what integration…
Thirty Years of Explicitly Integrative Scholarship
Johnson and McMinn (2003; see also McMinn, Johnson & Haskell, 2003) challenged integrative clinical psychology doctoral programs to show that PhDs produce scholarship and teach in the academy at rates that are demonstrably different from PsyDs. The entire publication history through 2002 of the two most influential integrative journals–-the Journal of Psychology and Theology (JPT) and the Journal of Psychology and Christianity (JPC)–-was analyzed…
Kenosis and Alterity in Christian Spirituality
Minding Spirituality
Christian Psychology Graduate School's Impact on Marriage
Although many empirical studies have investigated marital distress and marital satisfaction, no research has been conducted on the impact of graduate school on marriage for students-in-training, particularly from the viewpoint of the nonstudent spouse. Using a qualitative research methodology, six male and six female spouses of third and fourth year graduate students at an APA-approved program in clinical psychology were subjects in the present s…
How Students Learn Integration
Although Christian doctoral programs in clinical psychology have existed for over three decades with the explicit goal of teaching students to integrate psychology and faith, until recently no one had ever examined empirically how students in fact learn to do this, according to the students themselves. Sorenson (1997a) studied students at Rosemead School of Psychology and found that a faculty dimension concerning relational attachment greatly imp…
Janusian Integration
The “Silence” of Women in Integration
Whether the result of biology, the result of culture, or the interaction of both, modern research on gender concurs: men and women are different. This deceptively simple finding raises a series of interesting questions for work in the integration of psychology and theology. Do women think of integration differently than men? Does the impact of being a mother affect how women imagine integration? And is traditional integrative literature congenial…
Doctoral Students' Integration of Psychology and Christianity
Randall Lehmann Sorenson, Doctoral Students' Integration of Psychology and Christianity: Perspectives via Attachment Theory and Multidimensional Scaling, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 530-548
The Tenth Leper
I (Sorenson, 1996c) took inspiration from John Bunyan's (1678/1969) The Pilgrim's Progress and imagined the ten lepers in Luke 17 as invented, allegorical characters who represent different but common responses to the notion that integration is something indivisbly, irreducibly, and fundamentally personal. I have organized the lepers into four “colonies,” addressing in a previous article the first two, which I named “No Need” and “No Good.” In th…
“Where are the Nine?”
Jesus’ questions as recorded in the Gospels offer a prophetic challenge for Christian therapists who seek to integrate their faith with their clinical practice. One of my favorites is Jesus’ question in Luke 17 to the one leper who returned after all ten had been healed: “Where are the nine?” John Bunyan (1678/1969) in his classic The Pilgrim's Progresshad his protagonist, an Everyman he named “Christian,” traverse an allegorical odyssey en route…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Reply to Cohen
Therapists’ (and Their Therapists’) God Representations in Clinical Practice
Previous studies have focused on patients’ developmental conceptions of God, and how these dynamics are manifest in treatment with psychotherapists. The present study is the first to examine empirically this relationship the other way around: that therapists’ developmental antecedents of their own God representations can also have differential impact on their clinical work, perhaps especially so with patients who are themselves religious. Four hy…
Sea Changes, Interesting Complements and Proselytizing in Psychoanalysis
Doctoral Students' Integration of Psychology and Christianity
Randall Lehmann Sorenson, Doctoral Students' Integration of Psychology and Christianity: Perspectives via Attachment Theory and Multidimensional Scaling, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 530-548
Introduction to the Special Issue
Reply to Cohen
Therapists’ (and Their Therapists’) God Representations in Clinical Practice
Previous studies have focused on patients’ developmental conceptions of God, and how these dynamics are manifest in treatment with psychotherapists. The present study is the first to examine empirically this relationship the other way around: that therapists’ developmental antecedents of their own God representations can also have differential impact on their clinical work, perhaps especially so with patients who are themselves religious. Four hy…
Sea Changes, Interesting Complements and Proselytizing in Psychoanalysis
The Tenth Leper
I (Sorenson, 1996c) took inspiration from John Bunyan's (1678/1969) The Pilgrim's Progress and imagined the ten lepers in Luke 17 as invented, allegorical characters who represent different but common responses to the notion that integration is something indivisbly, irreducibly, and fundamentally personal. I have organized the lepers into four “colonies,” addressing in a previous article the first two, which I named “No Need” and “No Good.” In th…
“Where are the Nine?”
Jesus’ questions as recorded in the Gospels offer a prophetic challenge for Christian therapists who seek to integrate their faith with their clinical practice. One of my favorites is Jesus’ question in Luke 17 to the one leper who returned after all ten had been healed: “Where are the nine?” John Bunyan (1678/1969) in his classic The Pilgrim's Progresshad his protagonist, an Everyman he named “Christian,” traverse an allegorical odyssey en route…
Janusian Integration
The “Silence” of Women in Integration
Whether the result of biology, the result of culture, or the interaction of both, modern research on gender concurs: men and women are different. This deceptively simple finding raises a series of interesting questions for work in the integration of psychology and theology. Do women think of integration differently than men? Does the impact of being a mother affect how women imagine integration? And is traditional integrative literature congenial…
Doctoral Students' Integration of Psychology and Christianity
Randall Lehmann Sorenson, Doctoral Students' Integration of Psychology and Christianity: Perspectives via Attachment Theory and Multidimensional Scaling, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 530-548
How Students Learn Integration
Although Christian doctoral programs in clinical psychology have existed for over three decades with the explicit goal of teaching students to integrate psychology and faith, until recently no one had ever examined empirically how students in fact learn to do this, according to the students themselves. Sorenson (1997a) studied students at Rosemead School of Psychology and found that a faculty dimension concerning relational attachment greatly imp…
Christian Psychology Graduate School's Impact on Marriage
Although many empirical studies have investigated marital distress and marital satisfaction, no research has been conducted on the impact of graduate school on marriage for students-in-training, particularly from the viewpoint of the nonstudent spouse. Using a qualitative research methodology, six male and six female spouses of third and fourth year graduate students at an APA-approved program in clinical psychology were subjects in the present s…
How to Anticipate Predictions about Integration'S Future Trends
Predictions about integration's future offer dizzying and crisscrossing contradictions. The present special issue of the Journal threatens to add even more, arising, as it does, from a legitimate restlessness with the status quo in evangelical integrative literature of past decades. My own contribution here could best be described as meta-analytic. Mine is not an exercise in prognostication per se, or one more pronouncement about what integration…
Thirty Years of Explicitly Integrative Scholarship
Johnson and McMinn (2003; see also McMinn, Johnson & Haskell, 2003) challenged integrative clinical psychology doctoral programs to show that PhDs produce scholarship and teach in the academy at rates that are demonstrably different from PsyDs. The entire publication history through 2002 of the two most influential integrative journals–-the Journal of Psychology and Theology (JPT) and the Journal of Psychology and Christianity (JPC)–-was analyzed…
Kenosis and Alterity in Christian Spirituality
Minding Spirituality
Psychology (14 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (10 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (3 works) · Counseling Practices and Supervision (3 works)