Jennifer S Ripley
Biographic Data
| ID | 609334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer S Ripley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ripley |
| SIGNATURE | RIPLEY J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Regent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9733-4896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cultivating Compassion in Counselors
Compassion and empathy are essential dispositions in effective counseling, however, empirical research has not sufficiently examined how counselors’ spiritual experiences relate to these qualities.1 This study examined whether spiritual transcendence predicts compassion and empathy among professional counselors. Participants ( N = 95) reported engagement in spiritually transcendent experiences facilitated through practices such as mindfulness, co…
Well-Being and Help-Seeking of Baptist Ministers and Spouses in the United States
This article presents two studies on the well-being and help-seeking attitudes of those in ministry. Study 1 examined Baptist ministers and Study 2 explored Baptist ministry spouses and paired couples data to test whether well-being can be predicted from interpersonal variables. Key findings include significant relationships between well-being variables and one’s number of close friends; significant positive relationships between resilience, sati…
Re-imagining Integration
Several explicitly Christian doctoral psychology programs exist in the United States, providing training in the integration of psychology and Christianity. The purpose of this study was to conduct a program evaluation of student and faculty perspectives on the Christian integration training in six explicitly Christian doctoral psychology programs. A total of 299 students and 51 faculty completed the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale and a questio…
Factors Contributing to Posttraumatic Growth Following Bereavement
Multiple factors have been studied to determine their relationship to posttraumatic growth, with findings suggesting the importance of resiliency (Bensimon, 2012), social support (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004), event centrality (Taku et al., 2014), religious coping (Pargament et al., 2006), relationship to the deceased (Oginska-Bulik, 2015), and the circumstance of passing (Feigelman et al., 2009). This study investigated the relationship of these id…
Teaching Christian Integration in Psychology and Counseling Courses
In the last 45 years, psychologists, counselors, academicians, and pastors have developed a wide variety of models describing the relationship between Christianity and clinical psychology/counseling. Some espouse no interaction between the fields (e.g., nouthetic counseling. Adams, 1970), while others advocate for a meaningful interaction (e.g., integration, McMinn & Campbell, 2007). Some models expand on how one defines science (e.g transformati…
Integration of Christianity in Research and Statistics Courses
Teaching pedagogy and praxis on the integration of research skills with Christianity are introduced with practical classroom strategies. The authors discuss the purpose of Christian integration in statistics and research design courses as a spiritual and scientific endeavor. They discuss how they address students’ attitudes towards research with respect for their faith and cultural traditions. The development of research skills and personal virtu…
Integration of Psychology and Christianity
This paper forecasts changes to the integration of Psychology and Christianity for the next decade. The focus of the paper is on proposals to address six trends that are seen as hope for the future of the integrationist movement: the healthcare crisis, education, research, application, global networks and technology
Religious Commitment Inventory—10
The Other Side of the Podium
Student perspectives on the transmission of integration in integrative programs were examined through a qualitative study. Participants in the study were 595 graduate and undergraduate students (305 women and 247 men) drawn from four Evangelical Christian institutions of higher education. Participants provided written data in response to three open-ended questions, inquiring about the exemplary and helpful aspects of their educational experiences…
Pilgrims’ Progress
Graduate students’ perspectives on integration of faith and profession were investigated using item response to identify underlying constructs. Students (N = 595) from various professions and four universities were sampled. Three factors were supported as separate and important constructs for students. The first two factors were drawn from Sorenson's research on attachment theory, faculty as bulwark of the faith versus fellow sojourner and facult…
Covenantal and contractual values in marriage
Cultural constructions of marriage have developed to form 2 marital values orientations. These marital values can be understood along a continuum from covenantal at 1 pole to contractual at the other pole. Covenantal marital values prioritize individual sacrifice for the marriage to promote marital health, commitment, and vow taking to resolve conflict, the collective dyad as the primary unit of the marriage, and often spiritual intervention as a…
The Religious Commitment Inventory--10
The authors report the development of the Religious Commitment Inventory-10 (RCI-10), used in 6 studies. Sample sizes were 155, 132, and 150 college students; 240 Christian church-attending married adults; 468 undergraduates including (among others) Buddhists (n = 52), Muslims (n = 12), Hindus (n = 10), and nonreligious (n = 117); and 217 clients and 52 counselors in a secular or 1 of 6 religious counseling agencies. Scores on the RCI-10 had stro…
Introduction
This article is the Editor's introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Psychology and Theology on Current Issues in Christian Marriages. The current literature on religious marriages are used to understand the materials discussed in this journal issue. Future directions for the development of the scholarly basis and community interventions for Christian marriages are introduced
Forgiving Usually Takes Time
Numerous accounts of research on promoting forgiveness in group settings have been published, indicating that forgiveness can be promoted successfully in varying degrees. Many have suggested that empathy-based interventions are often successful. It takes time to develop empathy for an offender. We report three studies of very brief attempts to promote forgiveness in psychoeducational group settings. The studies use ten-minute, one-hour, two-hour,…
Can Community Organization Strategies be Used to Implement Smoking and Dietary Changes in a Rural Manufacturing Work Site
A one‐year intervention project was developed and implemented to demonstrate the utility of using community organization methods to mobilize a rural, predominantly minority work site community toward smoking and dietary change. This intervention for smoking and dietary change was conducted in a rural work site (n=235 at baseline) and guided by employees. It involved activities to change the work site environment and the behaviors of individuals. …
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Can Community Organization Strategies be Used to Implement Smoking and Dietary Changes in a Rural Manufacturing Work Site
A one‐year intervention project was developed and implemented to demonstrate the utility of using community organization methods to mobilize a rural, predominantly minority work site community toward smoking and dietary change. This intervention for smoking and dietary change was conducted in a rural work site (n=235 at baseline) and guided by employees. It involved activities to change the work site environment and the behaviors of individuals. …
Forgiving Usually Takes Time
Numerous accounts of research on promoting forgiveness in group settings have been published, indicating that forgiveness can be promoted successfully in varying degrees. Many have suggested that empathy-based interventions are often successful. It takes time to develop empathy for an offender. We report three studies of very brief attempts to promote forgiveness in psychoeducational group settings. The studies use ten-minute, one-hour, two-hour,…
The Religious Commitment Inventory--10
The authors report the development of the Religious Commitment Inventory-10 (RCI-10), used in 6 studies. Sample sizes were 155, 132, and 150 college students; 240 Christian church-attending married adults; 468 undergraduates including (among others) Buddhists (n = 52), Muslims (n = 12), Hindus (n = 10), and nonreligious (n = 117); and 217 clients and 52 counselors in a secular or 1 of 6 religious counseling agencies. Scores on the RCI-10 had stro…
Introduction
This article is the Editor's introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Psychology and Theology on Current Issues in Christian Marriages. The current literature on religious marriages are used to understand the materials discussed in this journal issue. Future directions for the development of the scholarly basis and community interventions for Christian marriages are introduced
Covenantal and contractual values in marriage
Cultural constructions of marriage have developed to form 2 marital values orientations. These marital values can be understood along a continuum from covenantal at 1 pole to contractual at the other pole. Covenantal marital values prioritize individual sacrifice for the marriage to promote marital health, commitment, and vow taking to resolve conflict, the collective dyad as the primary unit of the marriage, and often spiritual intervention as a…
The Other Side of the Podium
Student perspectives on the transmission of integration in integrative programs were examined through a qualitative study. Participants in the study were 595 graduate and undergraduate students (305 women and 247 men) drawn from four Evangelical Christian institutions of higher education. Participants provided written data in response to three open-ended questions, inquiring about the exemplary and helpful aspects of their educational experiences…
Pilgrims’ Progress
Graduate students’ perspectives on integration of faith and profession were investigated using item response to identify underlying constructs. Students (N = 595) from various professions and four universities were sampled. Three factors were supported as separate and important constructs for students. The first two factors were drawn from Sorenson's research on attachment theory, faculty as bulwark of the faith versus fellow sojourner and facult…
Religious Commitment Inventory—10
Integration of Psychology and Christianity
This paper forecasts changes to the integration of Psychology and Christianity for the next decade. The focus of the paper is on proposals to address six trends that are seen as hope for the future of the integrationist movement: the healthcare crisis, education, research, application, global networks and technology
Teaching Christian Integration in Psychology and Counseling Courses
In the last 45 years, psychologists, counselors, academicians, and pastors have developed a wide variety of models describing the relationship between Christianity and clinical psychology/counseling. Some espouse no interaction between the fields (e.g., nouthetic counseling. Adams, 1970), while others advocate for a meaningful interaction (e.g., integration, McMinn & Campbell, 2007). Some models expand on how one defines science (e.g transformati…
Integration of Christianity in Research and Statistics Courses
Teaching pedagogy and praxis on the integration of research skills with Christianity are introduced with practical classroom strategies. The authors discuss the purpose of Christian integration in statistics and research design courses as a spiritual and scientific endeavor. They discuss how they address students’ attitudes towards research with respect for their faith and cultural traditions. The development of research skills and personal virtu…
Re-imagining Integration
Several explicitly Christian doctoral psychology programs exist in the United States, providing training in the integration of psychology and Christianity. The purpose of this study was to conduct a program evaluation of student and faculty perspectives on the Christian integration training in six explicitly Christian doctoral psychology programs. A total of 299 students and 51 faculty completed the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale and a questio…
Factors Contributing to Posttraumatic Growth Following Bereavement
Multiple factors have been studied to determine their relationship to posttraumatic growth, with findings suggesting the importance of resiliency (Bensimon, 2012), social support (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004), event centrality (Taku et al., 2014), religious coping (Pargament et al., 2006), relationship to the deceased (Oginska-Bulik, 2015), and the circumstance of passing (Feigelman et al., 2009). This study investigated the relationship of these id…
Cultivating Compassion in Counselors
Compassion and empathy are essential dispositions in effective counseling, however, empirical research has not sufficiently examined how counselors’ spiritual experiences relate to these qualities.1 This study examined whether spiritual transcendence predicts compassion and empathy among professional counselors. Participants ( N = 95) reported engagement in spiritually transcendent experiences facilitated through practices such as mindfulness, co…
Well-Being and Help-Seeking of Baptist Ministers and Spouses in the United States
This article presents two studies on the well-being and help-seeking attitudes of those in ministry. Study 1 examined Baptist ministers and Study 2 explored Baptist ministry spouses and paired couples data to test whether well-being can be predicted from interpersonal variables. Key findings include significant relationships between well-being variables and one’s number of close friends; significant positive relationships between resilience, sati…
Psychology (12 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Christianity (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Psychological intervention (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works)