Dr. Harry VanBelle Publications & Collected Writings
Index of Categories:
1. Psychotherapy: Person-Centered Therapy
This series of publications offers an in-depth look at Person-centered Therapy. It contains an exposition of the views of its founder, Carl R. Rogers, as well as the theoretical and historical background of the movement. This section is of interest to psychotherapists, counsellors, historians of psychology and philosophers.
2. Psychology: history and theory
This section deals with a variety of topics in psychology. It contains a complete manuscript for a text on the history of psychology. It offers a number of articles on perspective issues in psychology as well as thoughts on the relation between psychology and (a specifically Christian) worldview. Lastly, this section contains several articles on the psychology of emotion. These articles are of interest to teachers of psychology in general and more specifically to historians of psychology and theoretical psychologists.
These articles provide an outline of the history and theory of psycho-traumatology from its earliest formulation by Pierre Janet to its present formulation as a research program in the DSM category of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. In addition it describes the specific traumatic effects that occur in Childhood Sexual Abuse and focuses on the impact of “false memories” in the treatment of CSA. This section is of special interest to therapists working to heal trauma victims.
4. Christian Counselling: theory and practice
Most of the articles in this section deal with issues that arise when one attempts to relate religion and psychology, or specifically Christianity and counselling. Several of these articles offer practical advice on how to conduct any type of counselling. These articles are of interest to Christian psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors, and more generally all Christians working in the helping profession. Social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, childcare workers, pastors and others will likely find these articles interesting.
5. The Christian Life: family and education
These articles focus on the Christian family and more generally on the place of children in an adult world. They offer suggestions and reflections based on the author’s lifetime experience on how to improve family life. Within this context these articles focus on the adult-child relation or on how to relate to, how to nurture, how to discipline and how to educate children. These articles were written for adults in general, but parents, teachers and child care and youth workers will likely find them especially helpful.
This section deals with how human beings change as they proceed through the stages of life. Whereas the previous section dealt with child development these articles focus more on adult development. They argue specifically that life normally is dynamic rather than static, a moving picture rather than a photograph. In addition, several articles discuss issues that arise as one moves into the last phase of ones life. This material should be of interest to all adults who reflect on their journey through life and especially to those people who take care of adults and seniors.
This section contains a manuscript and a number of articles that deal with the history of Post-World War II Reformed Dutch immigrants to Canada. These articles describe the history of this ethnic-religious group in the Netherlands prior to immigration and their journey of continuity and change in Canada after they immigrated. These writings are based on the author’s extensive research in immigration. They conclude that immigration has a conservative effect. Relative to those of their religion who remained in the Netherlands, these Dutch immigrants have changed very little over the past half century. This section is of interest to all students of ethnic change and continuity.
This section relates the author’s attempt to formulate the theory of communication that in his view forms the background for communication in all kinds of inter-human relations. Teachers of communication studies, psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, human resource professionals, people in the helping professions and others should find this material interesting.
Each of these meditations relates a particular bible passage with the sole aim of making this passage more alive to the reader. Based on sermons by the author these meditations are meant as a source of inspiration to bible-believing Christians.