Balancing personal and professional, faith and work, ideal and reality: A response to Paul Mariani

Thomas G. Plante is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor at Santa Clara University and adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has served as the Psychology Department chair; acting dean of the School of Education, Counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries; and director of the Spirituality and Health Institute at Santa Clara University. He recently served as vice-chair of the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Youth for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and is the former president of the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (Division 36) of the American Psychological Association.