| CODE | PLC5713 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Psychology and Vocation | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Pastoral Theology, Liturgy and Canon Law | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | While similar to any unit in life and career planning, this study-unit examines religious vocation as a distinct life choice. The basic difference is that the vocational motivation is not found primarily the individual鈥檚 personal qualities and therefore a search for self-fulfilment, but in the SELF IDEAL (Self-Transcendence). This is based on the premise that the vocational choice is a meeting between two freedoms: the Individual鈥檚 freedom with all its limitations, and the unconditioned freedom derived from the supernatural call. The study-unit will focus on the Subject鈥檚 way of understanding the call and the personal prerequisites that condition the response. Study-unit Aims: To enfold and explain the complexity of the psychological processes at stake when it comes to understanding religious vocation, its living and perseverance, as well as the conditions that best predispose for efficacy. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: Recognize the psychological underpinnings that support the commitment to a religious life, as well as to identify those which can limit perseverance and to efficacy. As regards the former, this comes through a proper appraisal of those ideals and values which are objectively proclaimed and to a deeper consolidation. As to the latter, the student will learn to detect those psychological needs and drives which are cognitively dissonant with such a choice particularly as they find their expression in the attitudes adopted. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: Detect such inconsistencies in the persons accompanied as they are manifested by certain overt reactions such as, excessive sensitivity to certain arguments, demotivation, repetition of inappropriate behaviour, etc. Next, the student will be empowered to intervene in an appropriate and timely manner towards the acquisition of self-integration and fulfilment in one鈥檚 vocational choice. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Textbooks - Rulla L.M. 鈥� Ridick J. 鈥� Imoda F., Psychological Structure and Vocation. A Study of the Motivations for Entering and Leaving the Religious Life (Rome: Gregorian University Press 鈥� Rome/Dublin: Villa Books, 1988). Secondary Texts - Rulla L.M., Ridick J., & Imoda F., Entering and Leaving Vocation: Intrapsychic Dynamics (Rome: Gregorian Biblical BookShop, 1976). - Rulla L.M., Ridick J., Imoda F., Anthropology of the Christian Vocation / 1 Interdisciplinary Bases (Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1986). Supplementary Reading - Holifield E.B., A History of Pastoral Care in America: From Salvation to Self-Realization (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1984). - Sperry L., Transforming Self and Community: Revisioning Pastoral Counselling and Spiritual Direction (Collegeville: Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 2022). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||
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