Originally developed for treating anxiety and depression, the principles of ACT can be applied to a broad
range of human concerns, including developing important skills in Marriage and Couple therapy.
They bring religion back to the most
fundamental of human concerns: health and well - being and being in touch with self and with one's environment.
No other
area of human concern has drawn a greater diversity of scientific disciplines into the service of a developing field of policy nor offered a greater scope for development of interdisciplinary collaboration as the environmental sciences.
Sergio Leone (whom Pollack purports to revere) famously forbid his heroes and villains to speak unless absolutely necessary, effectively liberating his characters from the
realm of human concern.
These functions in turn include a variety of activities — reading, writing, computing, memorizing — that purport to advance disciplined thinking about important
matters of human concern.
And the progressive world often deals in bioethical areas
outside of human concerns, such as food supply issues (genetic crop engineering and its potential impact on food availability), in a more visible fashion.
A fundamental error of the social sciences, and a fundamental lapse even of some humanists, has been to take the observable
manifestations of some human concern as if they were the concern itself.
The response can only be an indirect one, to the effect that the goodness of work is measured by its contribution to personal and social excellence, the standards of which cover the whole
range of human concerns.
In contrast, the three principals in The Scalphunters chatter constantly, something that produces the exact opposite effect by pushing them beneath the
realm of human concern.
The paramount current challenge to the church today is to re-examine its implicit and explicit teachings in these
areas of human concern.
This chapter deals with religion as a particular facet of education in a democracy, but more significant is the fact that all of the preceding chapters set forth a religious point of view by demonstrating what the life of ultimate devotion means in a wide range
of human concerns.