LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson the learner should be able to:
evaluate some of the cultural and religious practices in Africa with some sound principles, in an attempt to assess the mental wellbeing of those involved.
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4 African Context
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson the learner should be able to:
develop a scientific approach to some sampled religious and cultural phenomena;
describe and deal with shame and guilt, and culture shock in the therapeutic context;
identify the psychological processes involved in cults: radicalisation and brainwashing;
respond adequately to former members of satanic cults.
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READ: Adolescents in Satanism
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson the learner should be able to:
Define or describe the following culturally and/or religiously peculiar phenomena: Jerusalem syndrome, previous birth experiences, Snake-Handling, Fire-Walking, and mass hysteria.
Offer tentative ‘scientifically’ based explanations and interventions.
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READ: A case of Mass Hysteria in Uganda (page 43f)
INTRODUCTION:
Anomalous religious experiences may not foster psychotic experiences;
But they can be easily mixed up.
Religious experiences may be mistaken for psychotic experiences;
And psychotic experiences may be mistaken for religious experiences;
Discernment needed. How?
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson the learner should be able to:
discuss the interaction between religious experience, particularly of the mystical kind, and pathological states;
identify characteristics of “spiritual emergence” in mystical consciousness.
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