Full Description
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 from the beginning to the end of the therapeutic process.
Practical strategies, techniques, and examples are used to show how spirituality can influence each stage of treatment from before the clinical intake, starting with an understanding of ethical practice guidelines and therapist self-awareness, through termination. 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 authors discuss therapist self-awareness tools such as genogram, autobiography, journaling, and mindfulness recommendations for overcoming biases toward spirituality and how an agency's climate, referral sources, and intake forms can discourage or set the stage for discussing the spiritual.
Chapters provide example probing questions and assessment instruments for exploring how spirituality can be a source of strength or confound problems, and present sample treatment plans that address various encounters with clients' spirituality. Authors 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 book also prepares readers for spiritual issues that frequently arise in termination, even if spirituality had not been a focus in previous sessions.
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Jamie D. Aten and Mark M. Leach
Chapter : A Primer on Spirituality and Mental Health
Jamie D. Aten and Mark M. Leach
Chapter 2: Ethical Concerns Around Spirituality and Religion in Clinical Practice
William L. Hathaway and Jennifer S. Ripley
Chapter 3: Therapist Self-Awareness of Spirituality
Marsha I. Wiggins
Chapter 4: Noting the Importance of Spirituality During the Clinical Intake
Mark M. Leach, Jamie D. Aten, Nathaniel G. Wade, and Barbara Couden Hernandez
Chapter 5: Clinical Assessment of Clients' Spirituality
Kenneth I. Pargament and Elizabeth J. Krumrei
Chapter : Including Spirituality in Case Conceptualizations: A Meaning-Systems Approach
Crystal L. Park and Jeanne M. Slattery
Chapter 7: Integrating Spirituality With Clinical Practice Through Treatment Planning
Brian J. Zinnbauer and John J. Barrett
Chapter 8: How Spirituality Can Affect the Therapeutic Alliance
J. Scott Young, Sondra Dowdle, and Lucy Flowers
Chapter 9: Implementing Treatments That Incorporate Clients' Spirituality
Lewis Z. Schlosser and David A. Safran
Chapter : Spirituality in Therapy Termination
Jamie D. Aten, Michael W. Mangis, Clark Campbell, Brent T. Tucker, Ahmed Nezar Kobeisy, and Randall Halberda
Chapter : Case Study Showing Inclusion of Spirituality in the Therapeutic Process
Kari A. O'Grady and P. Scott Richards
Chapter 2: Training Therapists to Address Spiritual Concerns in Clinical Practice and Research
Everett L. Worthington Jr., Steven J. Sandage, Don E. Davis, Joshua N. Hook, Andrea J. Miller, M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall, and Todd W. Hall
Index
About the Editors
