There are other insights, also described above, that I have gleaned form reading this particular article, which is why I chose it. Though I have my own opinions about prayer within counseling, I do believe that everyone is entitled to handle his or her sessions as they would like. However, I was quite surprised at the 82% statistic, as I had often believed that those who underwent counseling would be much more liberal and would thus be less inclined to believe in any religious component to therapy. Often times, those seeking religious therapy would see a priest rather than a psychologist or psychiatrist. Yet it was quite illuminating to see that, perhaps, even those more liberal did not necessarily shun prayer as a means to understanding themselves and their surrounding. Yet, again, there is no basis to this latter statement, though it can be a component that a further study could better address.
Application
This final section will discuss the potential application of this concept to an actual setting. Whereas in the first two sections the study was described and commented upon (especially in the second section), this latter section is much more practical. For this section, there is a hypothetical patient undergoing depressive tendencies who is also suicidal and who believes there is no hope in life. Depression is a very...
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