Professional Biography

My current research is focused on the applications of forgiveness in counseling practice. And I am working toward doing and sponsoring research on spirituality, especially spiritual conflict, strain and stress for clients and professionals.  This latter concept is emerging with early evidence that personal conflicts about spirituality and religion have powerful impact on individuals’ mental and physical health.  

I enjoy working with students on research projects, mine and theirs. Right now (2009-10) I am supporting two interesting thesis projects on nature-involvement and psychological well-being.

I also sing bass in the 60-voice Oregon Repertory Singers. I have been married to Frances Page, Ph.D., for 36 years (amazing!) and am actively involved in the lives of our two adult sons.

Current Research

I specialize in stress in the workplace, teamwork and collaboration, interpersonal conflict, treatment of anxiety disorders, and integration of mental health and addictions treatment. My areas of interest over the years have included career development, work stress, conflict, teamwork, and change in organizations, best practices in mental health and addictions, and more recently, forgiveness, spirituality, and religion in well-being and counseling. My experience includes high school teaching, two years of Peace Corps service in India, work with chronically mentally ill persons, training in family therapy, consulting with public and private-sector organizations, and serving in administrative roles including department chair of the Counseling Psychology Department. I continue a small practice as a licensed psychologist to keep my teaching and research grounded in the disciplines of clinical responsibility.

Teaching

Currently Teaching

Treatment Planning for Adults
Internship Supervision
Introduction to Integrating Spirituality into Counseling

New Courses in Preparation

Diversity and Dialogue in 21st Century Spirituality and Religion
Spiritually Integrated Counseling and Psychotherapy
Spiritual Practices for Health and Wholeness
Field Experience/Internship/Research on Spirituality and Well-Being

My Classes

My classes emphasize interactive work on cases, applying multiple frameworks and best practices to issues clients bring to mental health practitioners.  Working together on cases brings students’ knowledge, ideas, and creativity into play and evokes critical questions about the uses of theory and strategies.  

We learn together.  Dialogue is typically lively.  I hope to help students develop approaches that are client-centered,  solution-oriented, informed by evidence about best practices, and attentive to relationships, community, culture, values and meaning.

Spirituality and Religion in Counseling

This emerging area is brimming with promise and possibilities. The courses emphasize understanding and working with clients’ personal meaning systems, spiritual, religious, and existential.  This includes persons and faith communities of the world’s major religious traditions, contemporary forms of spirituality such as nature-based spirituality, even atheism and agnosticism.  Major developments in the psychology of spirituality and religion point to the power of personal beliefs and faith in promoting mental and physical health, healthy relationships, addressing challenges of living, and our potential for living lives centered in values and meaning.  We also include the dark sides,  issues of persons and communities who have suffered harm from religious  sources, and beliefs and practices where spirituality and religion are used destructively.  This entire area offers extraordinary promise for increasing our capacity to encourage and foster healing in persons, relationships, and communities.

Publications

Lindbloom, G. (1993) Learning about Organizational Cultures and Competence, in Ethical and Social Issues in Professional Education. Brody, C., and Wallace, J.(eds.) Albany, SUNY Press.

Lindbloom, G. & Boland, K. (1992). Psychotherapy Cults: An Ethical Analysis. Cultic Studies Journal. Bonita Springs, Florida, American Family Foundation.

Lindbloom, G., (1981). A decision-making perspective on marital counseling: Issues and implications. The School Counselor, 28, 208-215.

Academic Credentials

Ph.D. 1974, M.A. 1970 University of Oregon.
B.A. 1963 Northwest Nazarene College