ABSTRACT
Working with families provides counselors with the opportunity to make the family’s spiritual and/or religious beliefs and practices a part of the therapeutic discussion, providing the counselor with opportunities to stabilize or manipulate the family system dynamics. In this chapter, the author describes ideology associated with family systems, focusing on the spiritual and religious components. Further, interventions aimed at gathering information and increasing insight, such as spiritual genograms and socio-metric interviewing are explained and integrated into a case example.
