POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AS A RESOURCE FOR PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND CARE: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
Journal of Pastoral TheologyPublished 1 July 2011
Mary Clark Moschella
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 My thanks to the Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology grant program of the Association of Theological Schools for affording me the time to work on this study. Thanks also to Roslyn Karaban for serving as a reader and the Journal editors who reviewed the first draft of this article.
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