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1. 1. Accountability: Putting the anger, pain in the past 07/21/04

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   Published on: 7/21/2004   Last Visited: 7/22/2004

   Whereas Dr. Wayne Clark of the Samaritan Counseling Center in Lincoln points to intrinsic factors that contribute to a person's angry temperament, Robbins focuses primarily on the choices a client will make in reacting to something that arouses his fury.

2. 2. Daily Nebraskan - A matter of faith

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   Published on: 1/16/2004   Last Visited: 3/21/2004

   Dr. Wayne Clark, executive director and main clinician for Samaritan Counseling Center, said counseling could provide premarital counseling for couples having difficulties assessing some common conflicts before marriage.
   
   Clark said a couple's first steps should be assessing what it means to be a couple, discussing the different expectations of the relationship and reflecting on the biases each partner brings to the marriage.
   
   For couples with religious conflicts, Clark said, partners should ask themselves what it means to be religious.
   
   "There is a difference between being religious and practicing a faith," Clark said. "Most of the time there is very little to do with religious practices but more to do with what the individual has grown up with."
   
   After evaluating various beliefs, couples should rate their values on a scale to determine which are most important, least important, what's going to be conflicting and so on, he said.
   
   "Next look at what are the common interests you have," Clark said. "Is there a way to the solution?
   
   "Oftentimes, an individual's faith beliefs are a position they take and not how they practice the faith. Couples need to decide what to give and what to take."
   
   He said it also helps to listen to other couples' faith stories to learn how those couples deal with faith issues.
   
   "It doesn't always have to be about taking away, but assessing the relationship helps couples get a sense of why they believe in what they believe," Clark said.

3. 3. Lincoln journalstar.com

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   Published on: 6/1/2003   Last Visited: 6/1/2003

   Wayne Clark, executive director of the Samaritan Center, noted that prayer gives people "a sense of closeness to God, a relationship with God, seeking forgiveness, strength and hope."
   
   Prayer can help change a person's attitude, he said, making it easier to endure pain and suffering. "The very fact that you pray changes you," he said.
   
   He cited studies in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors Journal showing that people who use prayer in treatment or share prayer often will have less stress, experience less pain and have a better perspective than those who do not.