11 Facts About Kenneth Pargament

Kenneth Pargament is licensed in Clinical Psychology and has a private practice.

Kenneth Pargament has published over 200 papers on the subject of religion and spirituality in psychology.

Kenneth Pargament is world-renowned for his scholarly contributions to the psychology of religion, and for providing clinically relevant scientific analyses of religion's role in mental health.

Kenneth Pargament has written multiple books, including The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice, and Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred.

One of Kenneth Pargament's best known areas of research has pertained to Religious Coping, which involves drawing on religious beliefs and practices to understand and deal with life stressors.

Kenneth Pargament has helped to design a questionnaire called the "RCOPE" to measure Religious Coping strategies.

Kenneth Pargament's research has helped psychologists learn how religious belief influences mental and physical health.

Kenneth Pargament has described four major stances toward religion that have been adopted by psychotherapists in their work with clients.

Kenneth Pargament called them the religiously rejectionist, exclusivist, constructivist, and pluralist stances.

Kenneth Pargament has advocated for religious guidebooks to be created for psychotherapists and that religious training be mandated.

Kenneth Pargament has linked attribution theory to the psychology of religion, doing empirical research distinguishing between different forms of religious attribution.