ABSTRACT

Bringing Religion and Spirituality into Therapy provides a comprehensive and timely model for spirituality-integrated therapy which is truly pluralist and responsive to the ever-evolving World of religion/spirituality.

This book presents an algorithmic, process-based model for organizing the abundance of theoretical and practical literature around how psychology, religion and spirituality interact in counseling. Building on a tripartite framework, the book discusses the practical implications of the model and shows how it can be used in the context of assessment and case formulation, research, clinical competence, and education, and the broad framework ties together many strands of scholarship into religion and spirituality in counseling across a number of disciplines. Chapters address the concerns of groups such as the unaffiliated, non-theists, and those with multiple spiritual influences.

This approachable book is aimed at mental health students, practitioners, and educators. In it, readers are challenged to develop richer ways of understanding, being, and intervening when religion and spirituality are brought into therapy.

chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|26 pages

Ways of Understanding

chapter 3|24 pages

Ways of Being

chapter 4|25 pages

Ways of Intervening

chapter 5|33 pages

Assessment and Case Formulation

chapter 6|24 pages

Diversity

chapter 7|26 pages

Ethics

chapter 8|23 pages

Learning From Research

chapter 9|21 pages

Competencies and Education

chapter 10|4 pages

Epilogue