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This qualitative study used grounded theory to understand the influence of the Internal Family Systems ("IFS") model on psychotherapists\' spirituality and the way they address spirituality in their clinical practice.   Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten psychotherapists practicing IFS model and the data were analyzed using open, axial and selective coding.  Themes were organized around the two areas of inquiry in the study.  Limitations of this study as well as future research and clinical implications are also discussed. / Master of Science

Shelter is a collection of poems dealing with questions of inheritance, permeability, and access to the divine. This thesis uses different poetic forms to explore each poem's inherent and inevitable architecture, so as to get closer to the idea of poem as physical object, as sculpture. Shelter relies heavily on archetypal imagery, much inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's lecture on the lullaby, in order to defamiliarize the reader through familiar means. / Master of Fine Arts / Shelter is a collection of poems that contends with the question of God. In this collection, the speaker tries many times over to build a house. In the end, however, the poems point to some sort of surrender to the elements.

This study examined the relationship between music therapists' spiritual beliefs and their clinical practices. A survey was sent to 4243 members of the Certification Board for Music Therapy, using an electronic program, SurveyMonkey. There was a return rate of 32%. The survey contained two parts; Part I was the Music Therapy Questionnaire, and Part II was the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale (SIBS). Data were analyzed using a combination of Kruskal-Wallis Anova, Mann-Whitney U, and Spearman Rho correlation tests to analyze both the relationships as well as significant variations in responses between the survey questions and the SIBS scores. Research questions focused on the relationships between the music therapists' spirituality scores (SIBS) and their demographics, their reported spiritual beliefs and practices, and their clinical practices. Statistical analyses revealed significant differences in the relationship between SIBS scores and gender, age, and years of professional experience; however, there were no significant differences between SIBS scores and education level, regions of AMTA, or client populations served. Significant correlations were found between SIBS scores and music therapists' personal appraisal of their own spirituality, their use of music as a spiritual experience, the use of music in their own personal practice, and their belief in the importance of some type of contemplative experience in their own personal lives. Further statistical analyses also revealed significant correlations between music therapists' SIBS scores and the following clinical practices: 1) the role of spirituality as a sustaining force in their music therapy career, 2) their spiritual ideals as exemplified in their work, 3) attention to their own spirituality in their role as a music therapist, 4) their spiritual growth as a music therapist, 5) the classifying of their work as a spiritual endeavor, 6) their choice of music therapy as a profession. Additional positive correlations were found between music therapists' SIBS scores and the reported influence of spirituality on their choice of population, their comfort in addressing clients' spiritual needs when they are similar to their own, and their comfort in addressing clients' spiritual needs when they are different from their own. / Music Therapy

Christian Spirituality Church History and Missiology / Thesis (D. Th. (Christian Spirituality))

This dissertation emphasizes the need for spirituality studies and practical theology to enter into robust scholarly engagement with dream studies. The study of lived experience and an interdisciplinary approach are key characteristics in all three areas of inquiry. Interconnecting these areas of inquiry opens new lenses for understanding how people experience, remember, interpret, and find meaning within daily experience. Chapter One outlines current trajectories of research in dream studies and highlights gaps in current scholarship regarding the relationship between dreams and Christian spirituality. A proposed framework for dialogue among these three areas of inquiry addresses these scholarly gaps throughout the dissertation. Chapter Two presents key aspects of the physiology of sleep and dreams while also describing prevalent American cultural attitudes towards sleep, rest, and work and their impact on attitudes towards dreaming. Holy Rest is proposed as a contemporary Christian practice with potential to recalibrate unbalanced preferences for productivity and waking experience over sleep and dreaming experience. Chapter Three asserts dreams are meaningful experiences which are potentially spiritually formative and thus require theological consideration. As such, dreamwork can be understood as a spiritual practice. Chapter Four positions dream reports in dialogue with theoretical literature on spiritual life writing as narrative, hermeneutical practices that create habits of recalling memories primarily via writing and using root metaphor. Chapter Five discusses pedagogical implications of research on dreamwork and summarizes common trajectories for research in practical theology, Christian spirituality, and dream studies. Specifically, this dissertation asserts that time imbalances between sleep, rest, and work pose spiritual as well as physiological concerns that impact theological meaning-making in daily life. It locates dreaming experiences as spiritually and theologically relevant and queries the lack of attention to Christian spirituality in contemporary dream studies discourse. It also proposes a means to examine how individuals’ memories may create communal practices of theological reflection based on shared narrative practices of dreamwork and spiritual life writing. This exploration of the hermeneutical, spiritual, and pedagogical significance of dreams and dreamwork suggests the merit of further scholarly examination of other undervalued and unnoticed experiences of daily life.