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  2. Catholic Insights for Mental Health: Faith-Driven Strategies

Catholic Insights for Mental Health: Faith-Driven Strategies

Thu, 10/26/2023 - 3:00pm EDT to 4:15pm

Catholicism encompasses strategies, beliefs, and practices that contribute positively to mental health and support individuals with mental illness. However, Catholicism and mental health/illness support are often pursued as separate endeavors with minimal crossover. We invite you to join us for a virtual event featuring three speakers who research and promote the integration of the Roman Catholic Tradition and mental health support.

Event Highlights: 

  1. Faith-centered approaches: Explore how Catholic teachings and spirituality can be a source of strength and healing. 
  2. Value of mental health: Discover the connection between faith and emotional well-being.
  3. Strategies: Learn Catholic strategies that individuals, families, and parishes can use to promote mental health. 

This event is geared towards individuals, families, and pastoral leaders seeking Catholic mental health strategies. 

CART Captioning and ASL will be available. 

This event is cosponsored by NCPD and The Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America. 

Thomas Plante

Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Thomas Plante, is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor, Professor of Psychology and Religious Studies (by courtesy) and directs the Applied Spirituality Institute at Santa Clara University. He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stanford University.  He has published 29 books, including most recently Spiritually Informed Therapy and Living Better with Spiritually Based Strategies that Work. He maintains a private practice as a licensed psychologist in Menlo Park, CA where he specializes in assessment and treatment of Catholic clerics and laypersons. Time magazine referred to him as one of “three leading American Catholics” in a cover story on clerical abuse in April 2002. 

Fr. Innocent

Rev. Innocent Okozi, Ph.D.

Rev. Innocent Okozi, Ph.D. joined the Southdown Institute in April 2020 as a member of the clinical team, which serves clergy, women and men religious, as well as lay ecclesial ministers of both the Catholic Church and some Christian denominations. He earned his doctorate in counseling psychology from Seton Hall University, NJ in 2010 and taught there as an adjunct professor in 2014. He has ministered as a missionary, parochial vicar and pastor to a diverse population in Africa and the United States. He has written and published several psychological articles in academic journals. He is fluent in both English and French. 

Anthony Isacco

Anthony Isacco, Ph.D.

Dr. Anthony Isacco is the Director of Training for the PsyD Program at Chatham University. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Spirituality in Clinical Practice and a member of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association. His research and clinical interests include positive father involvement, religious and spiritual factors to health, and working with religious populations such as priests, deacons, seminarians, and women religious. Isacco's most recent book is The Handbook of Psychology of Fatherhood, co-edited by Dr. Sonia Molloy and Dr. Pierre Azzam. 

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