Format: Zoom Recording
Cost: $25.00
CEs: Not Available
Narrative Description:
For decades, conversations about the integration of psychology and Christian faith have highlighted the importance of bringing together these two rich disciplines. What is now increasingly recognized is that both psychology and faith are always practiced within cultural contexts—and that attending to culture deepens, rather than detracts from, the integration journey. When culture is acknowledged and embraced, integration becomes more attuned and transformative, deepening both the therapeutic alliance and the work of healing.
In this Continuing Education seminar, participants will examine why cultural considerations are not optional but essential to integration, with love and justice providing the theological framework that grounds meaningful practice. The seminar will also address hermeneutical injustice—the interpretive gaps that often exclude perspectives in literature, training, and therapy. To move from theory to practice, participants will be introduced to the Cycle of Transformation model, a tool for cultivating self-reflection and improving therapeutic alliance across diverse client populations. Through interactive teaching, participants will gain strategies for integrating faith, psychology, and culture in a variety of training and clinical settings.
Level of Instruction:
Introductory
CE Credit Information:
The recording does not include CE credits.
BRIEF BIO
Carissa Dwiwardani, is a Professor of Psychology at Biola University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychology and Theology. A licensed psychologist and board-certified in clinical psychology (ABPP), she earned her PhD from the Rosemead School of Psychology. Her scholarly work and interests include Christian integration, positive psychology and multicultural psychology. She is also the co-author of The Integration Journey: A Student’s Guide to Faith,
Culture, and Psychology (IVP Academic).
William Whitney serves as Executive Director for Faith, Leadership, and Service and as Associate Professor of Psychology at Azusa Pacific University. He earned his PhD from Fuller Theological Seminary and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. His research and teaching focus on the integration of theology, positive psychology, human development, and culture. He is the co-author of The Integration Journey (IVP Academic, 2024) and Theology for Psychology and Counseling (Baker Academic, 2022).
NB: The Center for Christianity and Psychoanalysis does not exist to promote a single viewpoint or advance one ideological stance. Our intent is to create a space where people from varied theological traditions, clinical orientations, and cultural backgrounds can come together to think, reflect, and learn from one another.
We invite a range of speakers whose scholarship, clinical practice, and theological reflection enrich our community. Their presence with us is not an endorsement of every viewpoint they hold. Rather, our aim is to host thoughtful dialogue across differences—trusting that engagement with differing perspectives deepens our search for understanding and truth.
We are committed to fostering dialogue, not dogma, and to exposing our community to multiple perspectives across both psychoanalytic and Christian theological thought as we continue the ongoing work of integration.
