Prayer and Marital Intervention: Asking for Divine Help … or Professional Trouble?

Prayer and Marital Intervention: a Conceptual Framework.

Discomfort with the integration of spiritual activities into marital interventions may be a response by practitioners to the weakness of available conceptual frameworks. We offer a framework that allows for integration of prayer into marital interventions (educational or therapeutic), and argue that when culturally appropriate, prayer can serve multiple functions in interventions that are consi...

Prayer and Marital Intervention: toward an Open, Empirically-grounded Dialogue

In the lead article for this special section, we offered a framework to allow integration of prayer into marital interventions when culturally appropriate. Mindful of potential pitfalls, we concluded that effective skill based family intervention and prevention could benefit from integration of spiritual practices. In the commentaries, several additional issues were articulated and have prompte...

Monotheism in Help-Asking and its Educational Effects

From the point of view of the Holy Quran, monotheism as the most basic pillar of faith has different aspects of which the most important one is monotheism in recourse. Tawhid in help-asking along with Tawhid in worship is one of the important topics in the field of Qur'anic research on which various verses have been revealed and studied by commentators. In this article, after giving a terminolo...

Trusts in trouble need supportive help, not excessive intervention.

Recovering from failure by asking for help

Robots inevitably fail, often without the ability to recover autonomously. We demonstrate an approach for enabling a robot to recover from failures by communicating its need for specific help to a human partner using natural language. Our approach automatically detects failures, then generates targeted spoken-language requests for help such as “Please give me the white table leg that is on the ...