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Craig S. Titus

73 publications2017–2024

2024

  • Conference. Titus, C. S. (June 4, 2024). The Method Behind the Meta-Model: Integrative Method, Presuppositions, and Personal Wholeness. Universitat Abat Oliba-CEU. Barcelona, Spain.

  • Presenter, C. S. Titus. (February 1, 2024). Emotions: I. Murphy, The Road to Self- Awareness, Continuing Formation Presentation for the DMU, School of Counseling. Sterling, VA. (.5 hr)

  • Presenter. C. S. Titus (2024-02-22). A Catholic Vision of Vocations in Mental-Health Practice. Continuing Education Presentation (2 hours). Kenyan Catholic Psychology Association.

  • Presenter. C. S. Titus (2024-02-29). A Catholic Vision of Virtues in Mental Health Theory and Practice. Continuing Education Presentation (2 hours). Kenyan Catholic Psychology Association.

  • Presenter. C. S. Titus (2024-04-25). Integration of Christian and Secular Ethics in Clinical Context: Implications of the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person. Continuing Education Presentation (2 hours). Kenyan Catholic Psychology Association.

  • Titus, C. S. (2024). Philosophy of Mental Heath based on the Catholic Meta-model of the Person. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 24(2), 251–280. https://doi-org.divinemercy.idm.oclc.org/10.5840/ncbq202424220

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2023

  • Conference. Titus, C. S. (January 24, 2023). Strengthening the clinician’s self-care and resilience based on the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person. Divine Mercy University, Sterling, VA.

  • Titus, C. S. & Vitz, P. C. (2023). Strengthening the clinician’s self-care and resilience based on the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person. Integratus: The Journal of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association, 1(3), 197–227. https://doi.org/10.1521/intg.2023.1.3.181

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  • Titus, C. S. (2023). Habits and holiness: Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology, by Ezra Sullivan (review article). The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, 86.

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  • Titus, C. S. (2023). Resilience, Virtue Ethics, and Mental Health Care. Ethik und Militaer / Ethics in Armed Forces: Controversies in Military Ethics and Security Policy. 2023(1), 12-21. https://www.ethikundmilitaer.de/en/magazine-datenbank/detail/2023-01/article/resilience-virtue- ethics-and-mental-health-care

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  • Titus, C. S. (2023). Sex differences in the virtues and vices related to temperance: Chastity, modesty, and pornography Use (pp. 173-195). In Echavarria, M. & de los Bueis, F. Virtud, psicología y salud mental: El aporte de la concepción cristiana de las virtudes a la psicología. Dykinson, Madrid.

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2022

  • Conference. Titus, C. S. (January 27, 2022). Empathy, love, and friendship from a Catholic Christian Perspective. Divine Mercy University, School of Counseling, Sterling, VA.

  • Presenter, C. S. Titus. (February 10, 2022). Work: Whelcher on work (Chapter 6). Continuing Formation Presentation for the DMU, School of Counseling. Sterling, VA. (1hr)

  • Presenter, C. S. Titus. (January 27, 2022). Empathy and Christian love from the perspective of a Catholic Christian tradition. Continuing Formation Presentation for the DMU, School of Counseling. Sterling, VA. (1hr)

  • Vitz, P. C., & Titus, C. S. (2022). Psychology and the soul: A new perspective on an old interpretation. Journal of Psychology & Christianity, 41(2), 130-139.

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2021

  • Co-Presenter. Titus, C. S. (May 12, 2021). Client autonomy, values, and conscience: How a CCMMP contributes to professional and Christian ethics. Ethics Panel.

  • Conference. Titus, C. S. (December 10, 2021). Sex Differences in the Virtues and Vices related to Temperance: Chastity, Modesty, and Pornography Use. Congreso internacional Virtud, Psicología y Salud mental: El aporte de la concepción cristiana de las virtudes a la Psicología.

  • Plenary Address. Nordling, W. J., Vitz, P. C., & Titus, C. S. (April 24, 2021). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person: A Case Study. Annual Convention of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association.

  • Plenary Address. Nordling, W. J., Vitz, P. C., & Titus, C. S. (July 6, 2021). The Application of the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person: Brief History, Introduction, & Case Study. Virtual Psychology Symposium, International Network of Universities of the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi.

  • Titus, C. S. & Nordling, W.J. (April 16, 2021). CCMMP Presentation to IPS Candidates.

  • Titus, C. S. & Nordling, W.J. (February 26, 2021). CCMMP Presentation to IPS Candidates.

  • Titus, C. S. (2021). Dying and the Virtues by Matthew Levering (review article). The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, 85:2, 339-344.

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  • Titus, C. S. (February 24-28, 2021). Integration of faith and mental health counseling. Residency Program.

2020

  • Conference. Titus, C. S. (January 3, 2020). A Vocation-Virtue Tandem: A Meta-Model of the Person as a Framework for Virtue, Vocation, Mental Health, and Flourishing.

  • Conference. Titus, C. S. (September 25, 2020). How Personal Vocations Influence Professional Relationships: Strengthening the Doctor-Patient Relationship Based on a Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person. Catholic Medical Association annual conference. Philadelphia, PA.

  • Conference. Titus, C.S. (February 15, 2020). “Aquinas and Mental Health Practice on Friendship, Empathy, and Flourishing.” Love, Friendship, and Happiness Conference. Princeton Theological Seminary. Princeton, New Jersey.

  • Conference. Vitz, P. C., Nordling, W. J., & Titus, C. S. (September 17, 2020). The Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person and Its Implications. Expanded Reason Award Symposium. Madrid, Spain.

  • Gross, C., Klewicki, L.L., Vitz, P.C., & Titus, C. S. (2020). Man and Woman: Equality, Differences, and Complementarity, with Application to Vocations and Virtues, especially Courage. In P. C. Vitz, W. J. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta- Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 169- 209). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Gross, C., Titus, C. S., Vitz, P.C., & Nordling, W. J. (2020). Emotional. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 355-370). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • McWhorter, M. & Titus, C. S. (2020). Redeemed. In P. C. Vitz, W. J. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 513-541). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • McWhorter, M., Vitz, P.C., Titus, C. S., & Nordling, W. J. (2020). Sensory-Perceptual- Cognitive. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta- Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 331- 354). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Moncher, F. J. & Titus, C. S. (2020). Virtue in Mental Health Practice: A Comparative Case Study. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta- Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 635- 662). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Nordling, W. J., Payne, H. I., Sweeney, G.M. & Titus, C. S. (2020). Principles for training Catholic Christian mental health professionals. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 545-564). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Nordling, W.J., Vitz, P. C., & Titus, C.S. (2020). Introduction to a Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person for Mental Health Practice. In P. C. Vitz, W. J. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 3-19). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Seminar. Titus, C.S. (February 14, 2020). “Virtue and Vocation.” Princeton Theological Seminary. Princeton, New Jersey.

  • Titus, C. S., (2020). Virtue and resilience: Aquinas’s Christian approach to virtue applied to resilience. In N. White & C. Cook (Eds). Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience: Pastoral and Clinical Insights. London, UK: Routledge.

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  • Titus, C. S., McWhorter, M. & Gross, C. (2020). Fallen. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 473-512). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Titus, C. S., Nordling, W. J., & Vitz, P.C. (2020). Fulfilled through vocation. In P. C. Vitz, W. J. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 210-248). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Titus, C. S., Nordling, W. J., & Vitz, P.C. (2020). Volitional and free. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 408-446). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Titus, C. S., Vitz, P.C., & Nordling, W. J. (2020). A personal wholeness (unity). In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 145-168). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Titus, C. S., Vitz, P.C., & Nordling, W. J., (2020). Created in the Image of God. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 449-472). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Titus, C. S., Vitz, P.C., & Nordling, W. J., (2020). Interpersonally relational. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 306-330). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Titus, C. S., Vitz, P.C., & Nordling, W. J., (2020). Rational. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 371-407). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Titus, C. S., Vitz, P.C., & Nordling, W. J., (2020). The methodology and presuppositions of the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 115-144). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Titus, C. S., Vitz, P.C., Nordling, W. J., McWhorter, M. & Gross, C. (2020). Fulfilled in virtue. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 249-305). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Titus, C. S., Vitz, P.C., Nordling, W.J., & the DMU Group. (2020). Theological, philosophical, and psychological premises for a Catholic Christian meta-model of the person. In P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta- Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice (pp. 20- 44). Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

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  • Vitz, P. C., Nordling, W. J., & Titus, C. S. (August 14, 2020). Integrating a Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person. Sterling, VA.

  • Vitz, P. C., Nordling, W.J., & Titus, C.S. (Eds.) (2020). A Catholic Christian meta- model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice. Divine Mercy University Press, Sterling, VA.

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  • Vitz, P. C., Nordling, W.J., & Titus, C.S. (Eds.) (2020). Integrating a Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person. Presentation (Web launch) of CCMMP book.

2019

  • Co-Presenter: H. Payne, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus. (September 11, 2019). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person as a Framework for Clinical Case Conceptualization (Part 1). Sterling, VA. Continuing education (CE) Credits: 2.

  • Conference Titus, C. S. & Vitz, P. C. (April 27, 2019). “Strengthening clinicians’ self- care based on the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person: Building resilience. [Co- authored, delivered by P. S. Vitz]. Catholic Psychotherapy Association annual conference, Atlanta, GA, CE credits: 2.0.

  • Titus, C. S. (2019). A Vocation-Virtue Tandem: A Meta-Model of the Person as a Framework for Virtue, Vocation, Mental Health, and Flourishing. Conference paper, In the conference: The Virtues and a Flourishing Life. Birmingham, UK: Jubilee Center. https://www.jubileecentre.ac.uk/userfiles/jubileecentre/pdf/conference- papers/VirtuesFlourishingLife/Titus_Full.pdf

  • Titus, C. S. (2019). Curiosità sessuale, pornografia e voyeurismo [Sexual Curiosity, Pornography, and Voyeurism]. In J. Noriega, I. Ecochard, & R. Ecochard (Eds.). Dizionario Sesso, Amore, e Fecondità (pp. 188-197). Siena, Italy: Cantagalli.

2017

  • Titus, C. S. (2017). Aquinas, Seligman, and positive psychology: A Christian approach to the use of the virtues in psychology. Journal of Positive Psychology, 12 (5), 447-458.

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  • Titus, C. S., Nordling, W. J., & McWhorter, M. (2017). CCMMP Based Questions for Assessment. Washington DC: Divine Mercy University.

Undated

  • 2020 Expanded Reason Award (co-principal with P. C. Vitz and W. J. Nordling), Vatican Foundation Josef Ratzinger/ Benedict XVI and Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid, Spain)

  • 2021 Catholic Media Association Award. Faith and Science category, Honorable Mention for the publication: P. C. Vitz, W. Nordling, & C. S. Titus (Eds.). A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the person: Integration with psychology and mental health practice. Sterling VA: Divine Mercy University Press.

  • Co-Presenter: C. Gross, A. Pecoraro, S. L. Lee, & C. S. Titus. Trauma, Anger, Self- Identity, and Group Psychology of the Ego. March 13, 2019. Arlington, VA. Continuing education (CE) Credits: 2.

  • Conference. “Flourishing and its Impediments: Contributions from Aquinas and the Psychosocial Sciences.” Forum on overcoming obstacles to human flourishing, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas – Angelicum University, Rome, Italy, April 28, 2019.

  • Conference/Talk. "Distorted Visions of Love: Aquinas, Men, Women, and Pornography." Presenter in the Conference, Virtue Applied: Theology of Virtue and Contemporary Questions. University of Fribourg (Switzerland). October 27, 2018.

  • Jubilee Center annual conference, ‘The Virtues and a Flourishing Life.’ Oriel College, Oxford, United Kingdom.

  • Presenter. Titus, C. S. A Catholic Christian Framework for Mental Health Practice, September 12, 2018. Arlington, VA. Continuing education (CE) Credits: 2.

  • Presenter. Titus, C. S. Legal, Ethical, and Christian Principles for Mental Health Professionals: Psychological Premises for a Vision of the Person Consistent with Theological and Philosophical Premises (Part 2), March 14, 2018. Arlington, VA. Continuing education (CE) Credits: 2 hours.

  • Presenter. Titus, C. S. Legal, Ethical, and Christian Principles in the Informed Consent Process for Mental Health Professionals (Part 1), February 14, 2018. Arlington, VA. Continuing education (CE) Credits: 2.

  • Presenter. Titus, C. S. Legal, Ethical, and Christian Principles in the Informed Consent Process for Mental Health Professionals (Part 3), April 11, 2018. Arlington, VA. Continuing education (CE) Credits: 2.

  • Presenter. Titus, C. S. “Professional Ethics, Moral Decision Making, and Spiritual Discernment in Clinical Practice: Part 1. Reality, Responsibility, and Basic Sources for Ethics.” September 13, 2017. Continuing education (CE) Credits: 1.5.

  • Presenter. Titus, C. S. “Professional Ethics, Moral Decision Making, and Spiritual Discernment in Clinical Practice: Part 2. When a Good Action Yields both Good and Bad Effects,” October 11, 2017. Continuing education (CE) Credits: 1.5.

  • Presenter. Titus, C. S. “Professional Ethics, Moral Decision Making, and Spiritual Discernment in Clinical Practice: Part 3. Moral Assessment of Participation in the Acts of Others.” November 8, 2017. Continuing education (CE) Credits: 1.5.

  • Presenter. “Intake interview questions informed by the Catholic Christian meta-model of the person (Part 1).” February 8, 2017. Arlington, VA.

  • Presenter. “Intake interview questions informed by the Catholic Christian meta-model of the person (Part 2).” March 8, 2017. Arlington, VA.

  • Presenter. “Intake process informed by the Catholic Christian meta-model of the person.” January 11, 2017. Arlington, VA.

  • Presenter. “The integration of a PsyD Comprehensive exam informed by the Catholic Christian meta-model of the person.” April 12, 2017. Arlington, VA.

  • Universitat Abat Oliba-CEU. Barcelona, Spain.