| Formation | 1956 |
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| Headquarters | Box 365 Batavia, Illinois, United States |
2010 President | Paul Regan, EdD |
Chair of the Board | John Eric Swenson, III, PhD |
| Website | caps |
The Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS), founded in 1956, is an association of American Christians in the counseling and behavioral sciences. It holds a yearly conference and publishes the Journal of Psychology and Christianity , which is indexed in psychological and other scholarly databases.[ citation needed ]
The founding of CAPS has been described as part of a recovery of interest in religion among psychologists. [1] Ian Jones stated that CAPS provides alternatives to secular organizations such as the American Psychological Association. [2]
CAPS has several chapters across the United States. [3] Its publishing arm publishes books. Extensive information about the history of CAPS is available in a book published for CAPS' 50th anniversary, edited by Stevenson, Eck and Hill. [4]
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Annual reviews of the psychology of religion, which had been published yearly in the Psychological Bulletin , ceased in 1928. Only in the 1960s (sic) was there a revival marked by the founding of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Christian Association for Psychological Studies. The Catholic Psychological Association began meeting jointly with the American Psychological Association, which led eventually to the creation...
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