ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a framework for considering the ways in which religious and spiritual content is explicitly addressed in psychotherapy. This framework includes four dimensions in which interventions can vary: the level of client ecosystem; the level of critical reflection and transformation of the client’s existing R/S framework; the phenomenological level of experience addressed (intervention from below, above, and beyond); and the degree to which the intervention is embedded in an R/S tradition. The chapter then considers the ethics of borrowing interventions from different traditions, identifying openness to development as a crucial element. A case example shows the ways in which the configuration of these factors can impact the course of treatment.
