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Integration Paper
What is integration?
Integration is a method of blending different groupings into a single, more significant organization and integrating previously separated entities. The integration of racial, ethnic and various subgroups into the majority group is widely utilized in current culture. Integration fights with integrity the forces of disintegration. Integrity is an undivided, uncompromised state of wholeness which encompasses truthfulness, uprightness, sincerity and personality. This might also indicate that it is the transition into the dominant society of historically persecuted minority groups. Social integration, for instance, helps children with special needs engage in a regular classroom and become an integral part of other students’ social and intellectual lives. Integration is most often used in psychology as a reference to the Jungian idea of character integration. Some learners defined integration as the unification of all mental characteristics into a character.
Integration, as per Jung, is the procedure in which both individually and collectively unconscious are incorporated into the character. Going by the course video “Implicit and Explicit Integration Definitions Examples and Central Aspect”, integration is a positive cognitive development that shows intellectual maturity and can assist an individual in going beyond destructive behaviors. Integration means a change from beyond ourselves in Christian theological doctrine. Christian operators are often worried by the “anthropocentric” and “Theo-centered” interests of professions supporting them. Believers and non-believers handle these problems from different perspectives, but the two believe that the spiritual or psychological will break down (Johnson 2017). Attempts for psychology and theology to be reintegrated are an answer to the mid-19th century division disciplines.
Summarize a brief history of integration
In reaction to the sociopolitical upheavals caused by the Second and Cold War and the rising fight for racial justice, rationalizations for integrationist policies ultimately arose. In the course of World War II, as the US authorities took part in it with mounting evidence of the ethical and intellectual imperatives of opposing German fascism and Nazi racial theories, the leadership of America moved to inclusive, equalitarian principles to justify a war. A “Double V,” a campaign for triumph against fascists overseas and over racism within, was called upon by Black activists, black journal and civil rights organizations. A substantial number of the African Americans in both the military and civil society were part of the massive army and socioeconomic mobilization of USA during second war of the world and the initial cold wartimes. A Philip Randolph’s march against the Washington movement of 1941 aimed at the final moment of discrimination in defense sectors and a campaign to spark civilian disobedience protest against the segregated armed forces. African Americans fought against the secretion and marginalization that continued during the military period (1948). The signing in the executive order in the year 1941 by the then head of state that banned discriminatory practices in the federal defense sector and the signing in 1948 of Executive Order 9981by President Harry Truman integrating the military constituted victory over these activities and set a precedent for massive financial incorporation.
Even practical reasons have led to justified integration and disaggregation strategies. Even by cold wartime, the costs of sustaining different but identical institutions and other amenities in the South had become considerably unrealistic. Equalization methods effectively employed throughout the 1930s and 1940s by the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) pushed many southern districts that needed to retain legal separation to double services and exaggerate resource expenditure. The rationale for integrationist measures was also drawn from the intersection of the “Great Society’s” cold-war internal politics and increased civic mobility in the early 1960s. Sustaining the involvement of the community organizing commissions and institutions such as the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Council, the Racial Equality Congress, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, together with the structured and often aggressive opposition of white native societal performers and communities, brought the contradiction to American awareness. The adoption and execution of integrationist regulations meant that the civil rights movement objectives were valid and accomplished – and so rallies and protests no longer needed to be mobilized. The idea of each individual is evaluated exclusively with ‘their substance’ and not with racial, ethnic, or religious differentiation as minimalists views on integration.
In the 1960s, the most extensive civil rights law in American history was implemented via integration programs. The 1964 Civil Rights Act aimed at targeting and banning every aspect of discrimination: discrimination against voters (Titles I and VIII), discrimination against public residences (Title II), segregating public amenities (Title III), segregating educational establishments (Title IV), and discrimination in employment (Title VII). They also commissioned investigations by the Civil Rights Commission (Title IV) and launched many initiatives with government aid (Title VI). The mobilization of civil rights organizations, which led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has encountered the resistance of many Southern states to stop the discrimination against voters. In places where previous prejudice was experienced, federal registrars could take over the voter registration process and supervise elections, following the murder of Luther King Junior, the presentation of 1968 of the Public Human rights Act prohibiting discrimination in housing.
What are the important skills and characteristics of an integrational Christian Counselor?
The reality is that numerous stages are taken to become a Christian counsellor and that several features are necessary to become effective in Christian advice. A degree in Christian counseling is a serious concern; you and your clients are altering their lives to make the first step in a satisfying profession considering the characteristics that make a Christian counselor effective in their practice. In Christian counseling, the degree of training and education you get is crucial in how effectively you carry out your role. The need for advice is on the rise and the advisor faces many problems and expectations. Extensive understanding and professional training are needed to fulfill these requirements and to build customer trust. Insight is the capacity to perceive and comprehend how every person and each event fits in and plays a part in a given situation.
A counselor can be qualified, yet it is impossible to understand the entire picture or use biblical principles efficiently without understanding. As part of the limitless creativity of God, people exhibit an unending range of personality characteristics, encounters and desires. Flexibility and the capacity to modify things such as communication methods and the framework to satisfy the client’s demands are essential aspects of counseling. Spiritual growth does not come easy and is not only scriptural knowledge. According to Bulkeley (2018), the capacity to apply biblical information to the own life is spiritual maturity that continuously shows wisdom, humility, holiness and forgiveness. Through example, the spiritually mature counsellor will recognize God and the scriptures as the ultimate fountain of faith and guidance. One of the features that distinguish an excellent Christian is having genuine compassion for Christ. Compassion looks to the core of suffering beyond the surface and situation and compassion allows people to view their life in Christ’s light and experience actual restoration. One means of helping people to meet and reach out to Christ’s love is through the Christian area of counseling.
Create a personal plan to utilize Christianity in implicit and explicit counseling, including methods used.
The counselor’s conduct is the most visible form of integration of religion and counseling in explicitly Christian practices. This does not mean that counselors who utilize Christian techniques possess integrated religion and learning. It might imply that they completely dismissed their training. However, a specific starting point for an integration examination is explicit behavior. My plan to utilize Christianity in explicit counseling shall include; praying, using the Bible, mending the memories by welcoming God, applying the Christian symbols and ritual, liberation, laying on of hands and participating in church life activities. These are all biblically grounded techniques that Christians may use in counseling activities. I will only use these methods in most situations if the customers were Christians and had authorized me to use them. Some church counseling facilities may regularly utilize these methods to believe that individuals must be willing to accept these procedures when they come to an openly Christian center (Sandage 2018). My training shall show that authorization for the activity that is not commonly utilized by profession should always be requested. Christians should distinguish between ‘ministry’ and ‘counseling’ as a part of caring responsibility.
My integration of these processes then shall involve me as a counselor to think about the character of persons, the nature of illnesses and the process of healing. I will express my stance on each of the topics and hence defend their practice. For instance, if, as a counselor, I think health comes from a renovation of mind, a modification of usual patterns of thought and incorporates this with a theoretical framework of intellectual understanding, it is entirely consistent in helping a self-identified Christian customer to realize and replace unbiblical patterns of thoughts. These with scriptures that fit in with the overall framework of Bible thought as the entire, for instance, the knowledge of the grace and acceptance of God.
As a counselor, I aim to explore and comprehend how people link to their theological and theoretical ideas through any “explicitly Christian” activity. It is also crucial to know how these techniques are explained and how they obtain permission to utilize them with their customers. I here believe it is vital to recognize the range of Christian doctrine and practice. A conservative Anglican can take great advice of a crucifix as part of counseling but be worried that he invites the Holy Spirit. In contrast, a Pentecostal can feel just the opposite. It is vital that, as a counselor, I should not presume that they embrace all customs that I may be accustomed to or that suit their specific church experience because they are Christians. Ethical norms are as crucial as professional, or community centers for the counseling centers of churches and must be observed across the board. I shall have an ‘implicit Christian practice’ as a Christian counselor in every environment. This might be so broad as to pray for the customers of the day before they attending to work, to value freedom of choice for their customers, to respect the choice of attending churches, to develop their own ‘Christian character’ — the fruit of the spirit, to invite God to lead in silence in a session and to answer an intuitive or spirited sense of where hurt shall feature in my elaborate plan. Others can follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit regularly and deliberately in an environment in which they cannot explain to their customers that they are doing so. Others can examine the religious texts attentively to grasp how biblical principles might offer healing without identifying the Bible as its source.
Discuss ethical concerns.
Maintaining borders is the most prevalent ethical problem encountered by healthcare professionals. At times, making sure you do not have a personal relationship with a customer might be challenging. Sometimes customers might blur or try to blur lines because of the development of the therapist-client connection. For instance, a client might become more than professionally attached to his therapist. The therapist must keep and restores borders as necessary. Therapists should also not advise anybody with whom they know or are linked, even if the relationship has been erased, like the parent of one of their kid’s mates. A family member, a friend, or even a neighbor might be counseled beyond the bounds of the ethics of the field. Every customer needs an unbiased, objective and private therapist with every other customer. In several areas of treatment, therapists are typically better trained. A specialized therapist can deal with children, support married people, or use certain forms of therapy such as mental psychology. The therapist should only offer the treatment they have been trained to give. It is vital if a client requires a different form of treatment. The ethical obligation is to help the client locate a new person or let the client know that they need to find another person.
The therapists must demonstrate a professional level. They have to maintain as distinct as feasible their personal and work life. In some cases, this may be complex, and only specialists of mental health are human. This implies that in your lives, things will arise that might impact your capacity to be an effective counselor. If these incidents occur, the therapist needs to find a strategy to handle the problem. If a therapist can distinguish his issues and continue his work, they are ethically capable of doing so. If you cannot do so, you must take a leave or otherwise get away from circumstances in which you are responsible for counseling others. Another therapist who has just lost a dear one or who suffers from addiction should get professional support for himself in the course of a difficult divorce (Dammhahn et al., 2018). If your ability to advise effectively is compromised, you should take a vacation from advising clients. The confidentiality of their customers is a responsibility of every counselor – and indeed of any medical practitioner. This implies that all personal information, including intake forms, customer notifications, and contact information, is kept secret. These should be safeguarded such that no other person but the therapist and other approved staff can access them. This information cannot be shared with anybody else by the counselor. Confidential information contains who your customers are, where their customers reside, what personal issues their customers have and what transpires in a session, with a few exceptions.
References
Bulkeley, B. (2018). Teaching Counselling from a Christian Worldview: Why and How Do We Do This?. In Reimagining Christian Education (pp. 103-110). Springer, Singapore.
Course video “Implicit and Explicit Integration Definitions Examples and Central Aspect”
Dammhahn, M., Dingemanse, N. J., Niemelä, P. T., & Réale, D. (2018). Pace-of-life syndromes: a framework for the adaptive integration of behaviour, physiology and life history.
Johnson, E. L. (2017). God and soul care: The therapeutic resources of the Christian faith. Inter Varsity Press.
Sandage, S. J., & Brown, J. K. (2018). Relational integration of psychology and Christian theology: Theory, research, and practice. Routledge.
