Immaculate Conception Seminary/Seton Hall University are located in South Orange, New Jersey. Dr. Maria Valdés practices in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. In addition to being a licensed clinical psychologist, she is a senior fellow of the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America, founding fellow of the American College of Advanced Practice Psychologists, diplomate-fellow of the International College of Prescribing Psychologists and Prescribing Psychologists Register. She was awarded the Outstanding Pioneer Leadership Award by the latter two organizations, and holds a diploma in neurofeedback and brain mapping from the Clinica de Neurofeedback and Centro Neuro Psico Pedagogico. Her specialization is the integration of psychology and spirituality.
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ValdésMaria R.“Holistic Treatment Procedural Model for Healing the Homosexual Condition,” in HarveyJohn F., O.S.F.S., The Truth about Homosexuality (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1996), app. II, 356.
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ValdésMaria R.“Seminary Policy on Sexuality,”Journal of Pastoral Counseling28 (1993): 105.
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Rev. Jerome BrackenW.“Therapy: Friend or Foe to Spiritual Values and the Sacraments,” in With Mind and Heart Renewed: Essays in Honor of Rev. John P. Harvey, O.S.F.S., ed. DaileyThomas F. (New York: University Press of America, 2001), 143–60.
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The latter is a moral obligation because unhealed psychological damage fetters or imprisons what is most essential for human living—the powers to know what is true and to choose and do what is good. Such damage cannot ordinarily be healed without human effort, collaborating with God's grace. Whether one strives for psychological healing through therapy or through other means is a particular judgment governed by the virtue of prudence, which applies general principles to specific situations.
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HarveyThe Truth about Homosexuality, app. II, 350–7.
