Product Description: Explores the significance of gratitude for one s personal and spiritual life, offering a unique blend of the latest research and practical strategies and exercises to foster a grateful heart.

Product Description: Just be thankful. Have an attitude of gratitude. Only recently have psychologists begun to go beyond these shallow affirmations to probe the deeper meaning of the grateful state: Living Life Gratefully presents these breakthrough findings, offering the first serious attempt to explore the meaning of gratitude for everyday living and relationships...read more

Product Description: Although it is common knowledge that a person's physical health improves with regular exercise, many often do not think that moral health also requires commitment and attention. An accomplished authority on moral and mental health offers a timely exploration of the ways the conscience can develop and provides a set of exercises to facilitate this important growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Using developmental psychological theory from Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development, Norma Hann's emphasis on the role of emotion and defense mechanisms in self-perceptions related to morality, and Carol Gilligan's theory of sexual differences in ethics, as well as Martin Hoffman's theory of empathic development, Shelton constructs a moral theory rooted in the human capacity for empathy. He considers how empathy is developed, how emotions may be developed, and how persons become blind to their own immorality, ending with a brief caution about the limits of empathy. Recommended for all libraries, but especially for public and seminary libraries. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Shelton, Charles

Product Description: This book bridges the psychological and theoligical viewpoints that are important for the study of adolescent moral development.

This is a practical book that provides readers with a realistic context for their own pastoral theology. Of particular interest is the inclusion of over 100 questions and counselling strategies. In celar and readable prose, Father shelton integrates counselling and develomental psychology, pastoral theology and spirituality, and offers a complete overview of adolescent growth covering a wide range of topics including moral, spiritual, vocational, interpersonal and cognitive development. These developmental perspectives are then applied to various areas of an adolescent's life such as sexuality, social consciousness, family problems, and problems with God and the church.