Jared Kass

Jared Kass
Lesley University · Department of Counseling Psychology

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This chapter presents the third learning module of the Know Your Self curriculum, in which students develop an internal locus of existential meaning-making. First, they identify the existential worldview that fuels their destructive behaviors. Second, they shift the focus of their meditation practice from the development of self-regulation skills t...
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This concluding chapter discusses person-centered psychospiritual maturation as a learning process that can strengthen campus cultures of health, social justice, and peace. It reviews behavioral dysregulation, psychological distress, and lack of cohesive community on our campuses, as well as the failure of current engaged learning practices to solv...
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This chapter will describe three projects that have been formative in my professional development as a person-centered university teacher and mental health clinician. Specifically, the chapter will describe how these projects helped me develop the psychospiritual and social justice orientation that is foundational in my teaching and research. Throu...
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This chapter presents a case study of a young adult in a psychospiritual crisis that nearly undermined her academic goals. This crisis, like many that I have observed as a professor of counseling and psychology, convinced me that students would benefit from a structured self-inquiry curriculum that mentored a person-centered process of psychospirit...
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This chapter presents the first learning module of the Know Your Self curriculum, which establishes foundations for participation in person-centered learning and inclusive community-building. Students begin their self-inquiry projects exploring a subject they share in common: academic stress. As this chapter will show, their exploration of this iss...
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This chapter presents the second learning module of the Know Your Self curriculum, in which students learn that if they approach sociocultural differences and interpersonal conflict proactively with internal composure, rather than responding through habitual modes of stress reactivity, these issues can become sources of psychospiritual growth and n...
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This chapter discusses results from this study of the Know Your Self curriculum and explores their implications for prevention-oriented mental health programs. First, it reviews student learning outcomes: culturally-inclusive community, reductions in harmful behaviors, and growth in the five dimensions of person-centered psychospiritual maturation....
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This chapter completes the presentation of results and case study material from this research project. It highlights the central role of the inclusive learning community as a prosocial holding environment for growth in the five dimensions of person-centered psychospiritual maturation: bio-behavioral, cognitive-sociocultural, social-emotional, exist...
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This chapter examines a critical issue in post-secondary education. We have achieved unparalleled success as an engine for technological innovation, professional career development, and the advancement of knowledge. However, since Ernest Boyer’s investigation of the college experience and subsequent report, Campus Life: In Search of Community, it h...
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This chapter summarizes the psychospiritual growth of 10 students. They were selected to reflect the broad range of behaviors that students examined during their self-inquiry projects and the diverse sociocultural identities and belief systems in the student cohorts. These students explored four domains that typically undermine student well-being a...
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Over the last three decades, higher education has challenged itself to cultivate campus cultures of health, social justice, and peace. Since Ernest Boyer’s seminal research, it has become evident that many students experience psychological distress, behavioral dysregulation, and lack of community, factors that undermine their well-being, academic s...
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Part II of this book examines the Know Your Self curriculum as a process of engaged learning that mentors person-centered psychospiritual maturation and inclusive community-building. This chapter summarizes results from an effectiveness study of the curriculum. The study employed a quasi-experimental, mixed methods design. This approach produced a...
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This conceptual chapter presents a multidimensional model of person-centered psychospiritual maturation. It describes five dimensions of self that can be dysregulated by humanity’s chain of pain: bio-behavioral, cognitive-sociocultural, social-emotional, existential-spiritual, and integrative worldview formation. It further presents and discusses p...
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This book presents an engaged learning curriculum for higher education that helps emerging adults and professionals-in-training develop psychological resilience and community-building interpersonal skills. The curriculum mentors a person-centered process of psychospiritual maturation through growth in five dimensions of self: bio-behavioral, cognit...
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Person-centered spiritual maturation has conceptual and historical roots in my work with Carl Rogers, as a staff member of the Person-Centered Approach Project. It is a person-specific process of psychospiritual development that can be mentored in communities where belief systems and cultural identities are diverse. It enables individuals to deepen...
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Person-centered spiritual maturation is a developmental process with prosocial potential for individuals and communities with diverse belief systems (including secular humanism). Investigation of this process has historical roots in Kass’s work with Dr. Carl Rogers on the Person-Centered Approach Project. Previous work identifies this construct’s c...
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After successful pilot projects, Zhejiang Province, China, decided to systematically scale-up health promoting schools (HPS) over the entire province of 47 million. This study describes the interventions and self-reported changes in attitudes, knowledge and behavior during the first phase of scaling-up. Group interviews were conducted with a sample...
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An overview is provided on conceptual and action frameworks for peace, including contributions from different areas of psychology and several multidisciplinary perspectives. Approaches lacking in previous efforts, and some of the reasons for the limited success of peace work are identified. Two case examples are given to illustrate possibilities th...
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Presents a logotherapeutic approach that can be used by clinical teams to help medical patients develop psychological resources for coping with life-threatening illnesses. Such interventions include 2 complimentary stages. In Stage 1, primary health care teams build positive emotional alliances with patients through assessment of the psychospiritua...
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Religious experiences may be a resource in primary preventive care. Using Tillich's model, in which ontological anxiety contributes to psychological and physical illness, this paper proposes that religious experience can contribute to well-being. Data supporting these relationships, drawn from studies of psychotherapeutic workshop participants, med...
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Clinical observations suggesting a relationship between spiritual experiences, life purpose and satisfaction, and improvements in physical health led to the development of an Index of Core Spiritual Experience (INSPIRIT). Data from 83 medical outpatients showed the INSPIRIT to have a strong degree of internal reliability and concurrent validity. Mu...
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This article describes the validation of an Inventory of Positive Psychological Attitudes that has potential relevance to health outcomes and its preliminary testing with chronic pain patients. The inventory taps two attitudinal domains: (1) life purpose and satisfaction and (2) self-confidence during potentially stressful situations. It also provi...
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Currently, the field of human development lacks a comprehensive conceptual and methodological model of spiritual development. Aspects of this process have been studied through specific lenses, resulting in a pastiche of constructs rather than an integrated model. The purpose of this chapter is to take a tentative step toward articulating a more com...
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There is a true yearning to respond to The singing River and the wise Rock. So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew, The African, the Native American, the Sioux, The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek, The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheik, The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher, The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher. In his novel U...

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