A method is presented for integrating psychological and theological facts. Based on a definition of integration as a process of discovering, verifying, relating, and applying God's truths, the procedure places heavy emphasis on orthopraxy (right living) as well as orthodoxy (right thinking). Briefly outlined, the method consists first of “conceptual relation,” or verifying that one's facts are methodologically-hermeneutically sound and then comparing them to see how closely they correspond or perhaps can be made to correspond. Second, the method involves “embodied integration,” or committing oneself to facts that are intellectually understood to be true in one's life over time. Epistemological issues and methodological alternatives are presented, with special emphasis on the biblical principles of “knowing that passes understanding” (Ephesians 3: 19, Philippians 4:7) and “doing, not hearing only” (James 1:22). In addition, five conceptual relation models are critiqued, and a challenge is given for doing research rather than merely reviewing research.

This study presents an attempt at better understanding of the women's form of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB). The responses of 671 womenin-general to each of the 400 items on Form T400R were intercorrelated and factor analyzed using the multiple group method and a variation of Lawley's maximum likelihood procedure. Representative items for each of the resulting 9 common and 17 more specific factors are noted, and descriptive labels are suggested. The procedure and resulting information are seen as distinctly different from previous analyses.

PROBLEMThe inability to demonstrate a conclusively positive effect of helping relationships has resulted from, amang other methodological problems, inadequate criterion de~elopment'~). The difficulty lies not in a lack of knowledge about criteria but rather in ignorance as to how to apply the knowledge already gained").Substantial evidence exists for guidance of research endeavoring to isolate relevant outcome criteria. Such research should include : (a) multiple criteria ( l , 2 * 3 * 6 , 6 , ' 8 9 * 11, 12, l o ) ; (b) nonglobal criteria(16); (c) objective and subjective criteria ('",; (d) in-and extra-therapy criteria(lO); (e) latent and immediate criteria(ls); and (f) criteria that are free from counselors' theoretical orientation biases ( 3 ) .An appropriate way to develop relevant criteria is t o ask counselors what criteria they think ought to be used and how they see them as applying to their general run of clients. Employing such a paradigm, the present study will attempt (a) to answer the question, "Does patient-beneficial change occur along one dimension or, more feasibly, along several dimensions?" (lo); and (b) to catalogue outcome criteria for future use in developing a multiple criterion measure. The answer to the dimensionality question is directly related to the form the criterion measure will take and the results it will yield: If unidimensional-a single composite of criteria providing, by addition, a global improvement score; if multidimensionalindependent groups of criteria resulting in a profile of improvement scores. METHODInstrument. One hundred eighty items were collected for use in an outcome evaluation inventory. The source of 34 of the items was professional counselors a t Iowa State University, 42 items came from the general literature, and 104 items from a pool of unpublished, copyrighted personality scale items.' An attempt was made to include all of the various kinds of criteria mentioned above.Directions for the Ss read as follows: "Following is a list of client behaviors, each of which might be an indication that successful counseling has taken. place. Consider your own counseling cases during the past twelve months. For what proportion of them is each of these behaviors a relevant indication of improvement; i.e., for what proportion have you actually looked for this kind of change as an indication that counseling was successful? Please react to each item independently. Indicate your response by putting a percentage, from 0 to 100, to the left of each item."Subjects. The Ss were counseling center staff members and advanced graduate students located in college and university centers throughout the United States. Twenty-one of the 24 counseling centers that had agreed to participate returned a total of 116 inventories. This produced a final geographic distribution as follows: Midwestern, 11; Western, 6; Southern, 4; Eastern, 0. Due to incompleteness, nine of the inventories were discarded, leaving a final sample of 107 counselors.Analysis. The mean and standard deviation for each o...

An argument is presented for interpreting “praying without ceasing” (I Thessalonians 5:17) and “understanding and knowing God” (Jeremiah 9:24) in terms of both rational behavior and nonrational experience. There are many people in the evangelical subculture, however, who would interpret such verses only in the rational sense. The subcultural influence of this rationalistic content bias, of always interpreting Scripture in rational categories, as well as the method bias of viewing the interpretation process itself as entirely rational –- collectively referred to as the evangelical culture of rationalism –- is critiqued. It is noted that scriptural interpretation is by nature a human activity, comprised of thoughts and feelings and guided by the Holy Spirit, but not perfectly all of the time. It is concluded that the basic assumptions of the evangelical culture of rationalism, methodological purity and epistemological certainty, lead to the polarization of rational versus nonrational, which is not an accurate account of the hermeneutic process.