The first article was, Behavioral Activation of Religious Behaviors (BARB): Randomized Trial With Depressed College Students by Maria E. A. Armento, James K. McNulty, and Derek R. Hopko. It was retrieved from Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 2012 Volume 4 Number 3, 206-222. This study had the subject areas of behavioral activation, religion, depression, spiritualty, college students, and anxiety.
They hypothesis of this study was to find whether increased religious behavior would decrease depression in students. The predictor variable in this study was increased religious behavior and the outcome variables were, “depression, environmental reward, anxiety, and quality of life” (Armento, McNulty & Hopko, 2011, p. 206). The operational definition of religious behavior was identified as reading the bible, praying, or volunteering.
Participants from this study were recruited from the University of Tennessee. The students were screened using the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck & Steer, 1993), fifty of the eligible students agreed to participate in the study. The study participants were randomly assigned to go through Behavior Activation of Religious Behaviors (BARB) or Supportive Treatment (ST). The participants met with their clinical before they started treatment, for their pretreatment assessment, during the treatment, after their treatment for the post treatment assessment and then one month later as a checkup. During the treatment, BARB study participants discussed with their clinical their religious beliefs and how they practice their religion. Two participants were atheist, and they were asked how this played out in their lives. The clinician then told the participants that, “individual who ar...
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... to see both of these studies be done with a bigger population of college students to see if the results would be similar. It would also be interesting to see if students took an orientation class that focused on practicing religious behavior everyday as well as BATD. Would the results be even more conclusive?
Works Cited
Armento, M. A., McNulty, J. K., & Hopko, D. R. (2012). Behavioral activation of religious behaviors (BARB): Randomized trial with depressed college students. Psychology Of Religion And Spirituality, 4(3), 206-222. doi:10.1037/a0026405
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The start of this article focuses on a Christian client named George who is plagued with feelings of worthlessness, depression, low self-esteem, and suicide. His mother had also battled depression, and his father had an abusive relationship with alcohol, which caused his father to have verbally and physically abusive altercations with George and his mother. The abusive experiences that George was exposed to as a child paved the way for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as an adult (Garzon, 2005). With all of these factors present in this client’s life, a treatment plan was created that involved scripture interventions. The author made sure to touch on the fact that every client is unique in the hopes that counselors would be aware that one type of scripture intervention might work for one client and not work for another. The article highlights three guiding values when considering these types of interventions; “respect for the client’s autonomy/freedom, sensitivity to and empathy for the client’s religious and spiritual beliefs, and flexibility and responsiveness to the client’s religious and spiritual beliefs.”(Garzon, 2005). ...
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