The Significance of Developing Emotional Maturity During the Initial Stages of Religious Formation : A Psycho-Spiritual Perspective / V. Jayanthi.

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Emotional maturity : Notion and Significance Meaning of emotion and maturity .......7 Nature of Maturity ..7 Understanding of Emotions .......8 Characteristic of Emotionally matured persons .....19 Church documents on emotional Maturity in the Formation ..........26 Human Emotion and Christian Living ........29 2. Young women in the initial religious formation and Emotions-Related Issues Nature of religious life......34 What is Formation ...35 The purpose of Religious formation ..........35 The stages of Initial women religious formation ...........36 The need for emotional maturity in Religious Formation .........39 Causes of Emotional Immaturity ........40 Emotions related problems of Young women religious in the community ..........51 Complementary study on Emotional Maturity ...........64 3. Psycho-spiritual Approaches to develop emotional Maturity in Religious formation Spiritual exercises to enhance emotional Maturity .71 Mental Skills for emotional Maturity .....74 The carmelite method for managing emotions ..76 More practices for achieving emotional Maturity ...78 Brief Sketch about the congregation and founder of Daughters of Mary immaculate .......83 Cognitive approach to emotional Maturity .......89 The broaden and Build theory by barbara fredrickson to develop positive emotions ..........94 Formation in the context of Healing the emotions disturbance ....95 Practical suggestions of the Formators to attain emotional Maturity ...........101 o