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This book shows mental health professionals how to help clients deal with existential uncertainties and find meaning as they grapple with their religious and spiritual beliefs.
As more individuals leave organized religion, deconstruct long-held beliefs, or seek nonreligious spirituality, their existential and spiritual needs often surface in therapy, whether as a presenting concern or a deeper undercurrent. They often turn to therapists, counselors, social workers, and other helping professionals in search of answers. Drawing from cutting-edge research and clinical wisdom, this book provides tools and guidelines for providing culturally competent spiritual care to help clients along their journey of religious and spiritual change.
The authors introduce their existential distress, growth, and engagement (EDGE) model to help clients make sense of their religious/spiritual identities, establish new worldviews, adjust their morals and values, and establish meaningful social connections.
They explore the five existential realities that clients often struggle with when their faith is in crisis. These include freedom (the conflict between autonomy and responsibility); isolation caused by loss of community; identity, which includes lacking a clear narrative of one's life journey; death anxiety; and meaninglessness, both in the grand scheme of things and in one's day-to-day life.
Contents
Introduction: An Existential Unsettling
Acknowledgments
Part I. Theoretical and Clinical Foundations
Chapter 1. An Existential Approach to Religion and Spirituality
Chapter 2. Four Kinds of Religious Change
Chapter 3. Existential Distress, Growth, and Engagement: The EDGE Model of Religious Change
Chapter 4. Diverse Spiritual Care as a Cultural Competency
Part II. Exploring the Existential Chasm
Chapter 5. The Tension of the Existential Chasm
Chapter 6. Confronting the Five Existential Realities
Part III. Life After Religious and Spiritual Change
Chapter 7. The Ripple Effect on Self and Identity
Chapter 8. Relational Changes and Challenges
References
Index
About the Authors



