Jürgen Beck
Biographic Data
| ID | 4453271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jürgen Beck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jürgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Beck |
| SIGNATURE | BECK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Denver Seminary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7687-6098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sleep Disorders
Relations of Depressive Symptoms and Antidepressant Use to Body Mass Index and Selected Biomarkers for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Objectives. We investigated whether depressive symptoms and antidepressant use are associated with biomarkers for glucose dysregulation and inflammation, body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference. Methods. Postmenopausal women were recruited into the Women’s Health Initiative from 1993 to 1998, and data were collected at regular intervals through 2005. We used multiple linear regression models to examine whether depressive symptoms and antid…
Emotion as an Integrative Topic
Emotion is a topic of great interest to both academic disciplines involved in the integration enterprise. Biblical studies and theology address the topic because of its vital role in understanding the nature of God and the nature of human functioning. Psychology addresses the topic of emotion because of the central role emotion plays in psychological development, wellbeing, psychopathology, and clinical interventions. To form an integrative appro…
Self and Soul
As the field of mental health increasingly turns its attention to spirituality, Christian counseling is busily investigating how spiritual formation relates to psychotherapy. At the heart of these concerns is the topic of the human soul. This article explores the meaning of “soul” in Scripture, in Greek philosophy, and in medieval spirituality as it impacts the present practice of psychotherapy, an enterprise that primarily deals with the self. P…
Michelangelo's Medici Chapel
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Integration Training in the Seminary Crucible
Training mental health professionals in the seminary context provides the educator with several important challenges. Students must first be trained in addressing four specific audiences, each of which will have different expectations of the graduate. Students must also be given skill acquisition in four specific areas that are central to the seminary environment: a good working knowledge of hermeneutics, sound theological reasoning, ability to u…
Missions and Mental Health
Biography has long served as an inspirational tool in the service of modern missions. But careful examination of past experiences with missionary pioneers can also yield valuable information about mental health issues that continue to have current relevance. The insanity of Dorothy Placket Carey (1756–1807) serves as such a lesson from history. This article will ask some “What if ...?” questions regarding the story of Dorothy Carey followed by an…
Christian Anti-Psychology Sentiment
This article explores the similarities between the current Christian anti-psychology movement and the creationist-evolutionary conflict earlier in this century. In this article, we argue that if indeed the movements are similar, we may be observing the beginnings of some important developments: a move by anti-psychology proponents for a centrist position and a new test for orthodoxy among conservative evangelicals–-anti-counseling and anti-psycho…
The Role of Theology in the Training of Christian Psychologists
Educators involved in the training of Christian psychologists need to develop a rationale for the role of theology in the curriculum that would be a meaningful apologetic for secular colleagues, the Christian public, and the psychology student. Using the example of Peter Abelard, a 12th century scholastic, the author suggests three major roles that theology can play in the training curriculum for Christian psychologists. The paper concludes with …
Cultural Reflection
Recent literature has sensitized therapists to the need for a heightened sense of cultural awareness in the treatment of minorities and other subcultural groups. It is the thesis of this article that Christian therapists also need to develop intra-cultural reflection patterns that will help anchor their work with all populations in the broad cultural context more accurately. A Christological example of cultural reflection is used to explore the m…
Counseling and the Demonic
Page's (1989) apology for taking seriously the role of the demonic in our counseling ministries is courageous in its call for a reexamination of biblical teachings. The article, however, seems to lack a central and unifying view of the precise nature of these phenomena. Several intriguing suggestions by Page are only minimally elaborated. Missing from the article are a set of criteria which one could use in differential diagnosis, and a method of…
Elective Mutism in a Missionary Family
Elective Mutism is a rare disorder of childhood which is normally found in the context of severe family pathology and/or a multiplicity of individual pathology. However, the case study presented here represents an instance of elective mutism which does not have the normal features of attending pathology. The precipitating factors in the young girl's background all relate to common features of missionary life: emigration, bilingualism, and in this…
Christian Reflections on Stress Management
An enormous volume of literature has emerged in the past decade regarding stress and its management. As the Christian views this literature in psychology, an immediate impression is gratefulness for the contribution these advancements have made to Christ's Church. In addition, one has some reservations regarding the almost value-free environment surrounding some of the literature as well as the tendency of a few authors in this field to expand st…
Women in Missions
Women have been and are a vital force in the North American missionary movement In this study an attempt is made to identify trends in the background and training of women currently being sent abroad as compared with those who went overseas thirty years ago. Data were collected comparing 1951–53 appointees with 1981–83 appointees on their levels of education, age, family background, spiritual experience, and other factors. Statistically significa…
Treatment of Spiritual Doubt among Obsessing Evangelicals
Obsessional ideation among evangelicals is often highly spiritual in tone and fearful in mood. After a discussion of the diagnosis and incidence of this symptom complex, a case study, a clinical survey, and a survey of Scripture are presented to demonstrate how these symptoms occur in evangelical populations. The article concludes with a survey of theories regarding the origin, development, and treatment of obsessional ideation and a discussion o…
Mutuality in Marriage
A reexamination of the Ephesians 5 passage reveals that headship and submission are more related by Paul in this context to marital process than to marital structure. Moreover, headship and submission seem to be components of an underlying process of mutuality. Mutuality in turn, forms the dynamic capable of producing oneness, God's aim for marriage. Counselors can help troubled marriages focus on a process of mutuality and thus provide them with…
Need for Objectivity
Executive Development-Two Views
Bob L. Wynia's article concerning executive development in the federal government (Public Administration Review July/August 1972) requires some updating. I refer to a specific statement concerning individualism the organization. Prof. Wynia writes, and the fact is, the older, entrenched civil servants who have been with such agencies as the ... Social Security Administration .. .are deeply worried that these young dissidents might destroy their '…
First Book in German
Relations of Depressive Symptoms and Antidepressant Use to Body Mass Index and Selected Biomarkers for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Objectives. We investigated whether depressive symptoms and antidepressant use are associated with biomarkers for glucose dysregulation and inflammation, body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference. Methods. Postmenopausal women were recruited into the Women’s Health Initiative from 1993 to 1998, and data were collected at regular intervals through 2005. We used multiple linear regression models to examine whether depressive symptoms and antid…
First Book in German
Executive Development-Two Views
Bob L. Wynia's article concerning executive development in the federal government (Public Administration Review July/August 1972) requires some updating. I refer to a specific statement concerning individualism the organization. Prof. Wynia writes, and the fact is, the older, entrenched civil servants who have been with such agencies as the ... Social Security Administration .. .are deeply worried that these young dissidents might destroy their '…
Need for Objectivity
Mutuality in Marriage
A reexamination of the Ephesians 5 passage reveals that headship and submission are more related by Paul in this context to marital process than to marital structure. Moreover, headship and submission seem to be components of an underlying process of mutuality. Mutuality in turn, forms the dynamic capable of producing oneness, God's aim for marriage. Counselors can help troubled marriages focus on a process of mutuality and thus provide them with…
Treatment of Spiritual Doubt among Obsessing Evangelicals
Obsessional ideation among evangelicals is often highly spiritual in tone and fearful in mood. After a discussion of the diagnosis and incidence of this symptom complex, a case study, a clinical survey, and a survey of Scripture are presented to demonstrate how these symptoms occur in evangelical populations. The article concludes with a survey of theories regarding the origin, development, and treatment of obsessional ideation and a discussion o…
Christian Reflections on Stress Management
An enormous volume of literature has emerged in the past decade regarding stress and its management. As the Christian views this literature in psychology, an immediate impression is gratefulness for the contribution these advancements have made to Christ's Church. In addition, one has some reservations regarding the almost value-free environment surrounding some of the literature as well as the tendency of a few authors in this field to expand st…
Women in Missions
Women have been and are a vital force in the North American missionary movement In this study an attempt is made to identify trends in the background and training of women currently being sent abroad as compared with those who went overseas thirty years ago. Data were collected comparing 1951–53 appointees with 1981–83 appointees on their levels of education, age, family background, spiritual experience, and other factors. Statistically significa…
Elective Mutism in a Missionary Family
Elective Mutism is a rare disorder of childhood which is normally found in the context of severe family pathology and/or a multiplicity of individual pathology. However, the case study presented here represents an instance of elective mutism which does not have the normal features of attending pathology. The precipitating factors in the young girl's background all relate to common features of missionary life: emigration, bilingualism, and in this…
Counseling and the Demonic
Page's (1989) apology for taking seriously the role of the demonic in our counseling ministries is courageous in its call for a reexamination of biblical teachings. The article, however, seems to lack a central and unifying view of the precise nature of these phenomena. Several intriguing suggestions by Page are only minimally elaborated. Missing from the article are a set of criteria which one could use in differential diagnosis, and a method of…
Cultural Reflection
Recent literature has sensitized therapists to the need for a heightened sense of cultural awareness in the treatment of minorities and other subcultural groups. It is the thesis of this article that Christian therapists also need to develop intra-cultural reflection patterns that will help anchor their work with all populations in the broad cultural context more accurately. A Christological example of cultural reflection is used to explore the m…
Christian Anti-Psychology Sentiment
This article explores the similarities between the current Christian anti-psychology movement and the creationist-evolutionary conflict earlier in this century. In this article, we argue that if indeed the movements are similar, we may be observing the beginnings of some important developments: a move by anti-psychology proponents for a centrist position and a new test for orthodoxy among conservative evangelicals–-anti-counseling and anti-psycho…
The Role of Theology in the Training of Christian Psychologists
Educators involved in the training of Christian psychologists need to develop a rationale for the role of theology in the curriculum that would be a meaningful apologetic for secular colleagues, the Christian public, and the psychology student. Using the example of Peter Abelard, a 12th century scholastic, the author suggests three major roles that theology can play in the training curriculum for Christian psychologists. The paper concludes with …
Missions and Mental Health
Biography has long served as an inspirational tool in the service of modern missions. But careful examination of past experiences with missionary pioneers can also yield valuable information about mental health issues that continue to have current relevance. The insanity of Dorothy Placket Carey (1756–1807) serves as such a lesson from history. This article will ask some “What if ...?” questions regarding the story of Dorothy Carey followed by an…
Integration Training in the Seminary Crucible
Training mental health professionals in the seminary context provides the educator with several important challenges. Students must first be trained in addressing four specific audiences, each of which will have different expectations of the graduate. Students must also be given skill acquisition in four specific areas that are central to the seminary environment: a good working knowledge of hermeneutics, sound theological reasoning, ability to u…
Michelangelo's Medici Chapel
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Self and Soul
As the field of mental health increasingly turns its attention to spirituality, Christian counseling is busily investigating how spiritual formation relates to psychotherapy. At the heart of these concerns is the topic of the human soul. This article explores the meaning of “soul” in Scripture, in Greek philosophy, and in medieval spirituality as it impacts the present practice of psychotherapy, an enterprise that primarily deals with the self. P…
Emotion as an Integrative Topic
Emotion is a topic of great interest to both academic disciplines involved in the integration enterprise. Biblical studies and theology address the topic because of its vital role in understanding the nature of God and the nature of human functioning. Psychology addresses the topic of emotion because of the central role emotion plays in psychological development, wellbeing, psychopathology, and clinical interventions. To form an integrative appro…
Relations of Depressive Symptoms and Antidepressant Use to Body Mass Index and Selected Biomarkers for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Objectives. We investigated whether depressive symptoms and antidepressant use are associated with biomarkers for glucose dysregulation and inflammation, body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference. Methods. Postmenopausal women were recruited into the Women’s Health Initiative from 1993 to 1998, and data were collected at regular intervals through 2005. We used multiple linear regression models to examine whether depressive symptoms and antid…
Sleep Disorders
Psychology (16 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (6 works) · Context (archaeology) (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)