Abstract

MACEDO, Danielle Soares de; FONSECA, Camila Mariana Mesquita e  and  HOLANDA, Adriano Furtado. A comparative study of religious counseling in three religious contexts in Brazil. Rev. abordagem gestalt. [online]. 2007, vol.13, n.2, pp.206-215. ISSN 1809-6867.

Even so the shelter of psychological demands in religious environment is not, in general, carried through for psychologists,can be spoken of Religious Counseling as a modality of Psychological Counseling. The objective of this work was to compare counseling carried through in three religious contexts (protestantism, catolicism and kardecism). For this, two members of each religious source were interviewed. The three religions have in common the appraise for hearing instead of the speech and the judgement, the existence of schedules marked for the attendance and the paper of the secrecy as an ethical principle. The main differences are related to the way that the social taboos are boarded, depending of the underlying moral positioning. The trend to the shelter in coexistence with the educative and ethical function of the religion, the unconcern of psychology with the human being’s spiritual dimension, the possibility of incorporation of the “religious professionals” in the effort of humanistic and holistic attendance and the necessity of future research is quarrel subjects.

Keywords : Psychological Counseling; Religious Counseling; Psychology of the Religion.

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