Full Description
Recent years have brought broader awareness and openness to talking about traumatic life events. Survivors of these events often experience spiritual struggles in the course of healing. Likewise, in helping clients process trauma, therapists too may struggle with spiritual questions such as why people suffer.
In this book, readers will learn how to apply spiritually oriented practices within their own setting, approach to therapy, and client populations. They will also learn how to work with the ethical challenges trauma treatment can pose to their own competence and world view.
This book describes empirical research and provides case studies showing its application to sexual abuse, partner violence, and trauma resulting from war and natural disasters.
Features:
amp bull Provides concrete advice for psychotherapists who feel uncomfortable with raising spiritual issues or discussing them when they come up.
amp bull Illustrates how to adopt a spiritual orientation in each stage of therapy-assessment, establishing working alliance, meaning making, and change.
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Donald F. Walker, Christine A. Courtois, and Jamie D. Aten
Basics of Working on Spiritual Matters With Traumatized Individuals
Donald F. Walker, Christine A. Courtois, and Jamie D. Aten
Spirituality, Religion, and Complex Developmental Trauma
Stephanie Van Deusen and Christine A. Courtois
First, Do No More Harm: Ethics of Attending to Spiritual Issues in Trauma Treatment
Christine A. Courtois
Religious and Spiritual Assessment of Trauma Survivors
P. Scott Richards, Randy K. Hardman, Troy Lea, and Michael E. Berrett
Religion, Spirituality, and the Working Alliance With Trauma Survivors
E. Grace Verbeck, Meline A. Arzoumanian, Jan E. Estrellado, Jillian DeLorme, Kristen Dahlin, Emily Hennrich, Heather E. Rodriguez, Jessica M. Stevens, and Constance Dalenberg
Spirituality and Making Meaning: Implications for Therapy With Trauma Survivors
Jeanne M. Slattery and Crystal L. Park
Understanding and Responding to Changes in Spirituality and Religion After Traumatic Events
Donald F. Walker, Kerry L. McGregor, David Quagliana, Rachel L. Stephens, and Katlin R. Knodel
God Images in Clinical Work With Sexual Abuse Survivors: A Relational Psychodynamic Paradigm
Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea
Providing Spiritual and Emotional Care in Response to Disaster
Jamie D. Aten, Kari A. O'Grady, Glen Milstein, David Boan, Melissa A. Smigelsky, Alice Schruba, and Isaac Weaver
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Within a Religious Context
Heidi M. Levitt, Sharon G. Horne, Emily E. Wheeler, and Mei-Chuan Wang
Faith and Honor in Trauma Treatment for Military Personnel and Their Families
David W. Foy and Kent D. Drescher
Responding to the Problem of Evil and Suffering
Sue Grand
Afterword: Reflections and Future Directions
Donald F. Walker, Christine A. Courtois, and Jamie D. Aten
Index
About the Editors
