"This book is for therapists who want to enhance their effectiveness with clients whose spirituality is a salient part of their worldview. Whether or not the therapist has a spiritual background, the authors demonstrate that it is possible to honor clients' spiritual experience at each stage of the therapeutic process, from clinical intake through termination. Practical strategies, techniques, and examples are used to show how spirituality can influence each stage of treatment, and the authors describe the importance of ethical practice guidelines and therapist self- awareness when considering matters of spirituality. Self-reflection questions, diverse case examples, and a multiple-session case study chapter are provided to build readers' understanding and ability to incorporate spirituality into counseling and psychotherapy. Practitioners in a broad variety of fields, including counseling and clinical psychology, counselor education, and marriage and family therapy, will find this book to be a rich source of ideas for examining and modifying their practice. The contributors discuss therapist self-awareness tools such as genograms, autobiography, journaling, and mindfulness as well as recommendations for overcoming biases toward spirituality. They also demonstrate how meaning systems theory can inform case conceptualization and how spiritual discussions and interventions can be part of cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal. psychodynamic, and humanistic therapies. The chapters provide examples of probing questions and assessment instruments for exploring how spirituality can be a source of strength or can confound problems, along with sample treatment plans that address various encounters with clients' spirituality"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).
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Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Cashwell, C. S., & Young, J. S. (2011). Integrating spirituality and religion into counseling: A guide to competent practice (2nd ed.). Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.
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Unlike books that focus primarily on the therapist's spiritual awareness, the second edition of Spirituality in Clinical Practice addresses the actual practice of spiritually oriented psychotherapy from the beginning to end.
"Written with great clarity and intelligence, this book will be of benefit to all mental health practitioners, students of psychology, and those seeking a better understanding of their own process of psychological and spiritual ...
Lukoff , D. , Francis , L. and Turner , R. ( 1998 ) ' From spiritual emergency to spiritual problem : the transpersonal roots of the new DSM - IV category ' , Journal of Humanistic Psychology , 38 ( 2 ) : 21-50 .
In this book, experts in the field discuss how spiritual and religious issues can be successfully integrated into counseling in a manner that is respectful of client beliefs and practices.
His heart is enlarged to take us in.25 Foster's words welcome us to enter a place of rest, a place of wholesome spiritual renewal. Throughout the remainder of his book, Foster demonstrates that prayer is the door leading to such a place ...
The book is well written and presents the model in the context of other therapeutic modalities, which makes it interesting and useful for therapists from different backgrounds and practice settings.
This essential Handbook is a window on the quiet revolution now sweeping the field of psychology, that of locating the whole human being in the center of the therapeutic process.