Main description:

Spirituality and Religion in Counseling: Competency-Based Strategies for Ethical Practice provides mental health professionals and counselors in training with practical information for understanding and responding to clients' needs using a spiritual and religious framework. This work conceptualizes spiritual and faith development in a holistic way, using case examples and practical interventions to consider common issues through a variety of approaches and frameworks. This is an essential compendium of actionable strategies and solutions for counselors looking to address clients' complex spiritual and religious lives and foster meaningful faith development.

Contents:

List of Contributors. About the Editors. Foreword: The Intersection of Spirituality and Counseling: History, Competencies, and an Ethical Mandate, Craig S. Cashwell. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Counselor Preparation and Understanding the Client in Terms of Spirituality and Religious Issues 1. Counselor Self-Awareness and Counselor Communication, Stephanie Fariss Dailey 2. Understanding Worldview and Impact of Spiritual Systems through Assessment: Open and Closed Faith Systems, Carman S. Gill and Robert R. Freund 3. Understanding the Development of Spirituality, Religion and Faith in the Client's Life, Robert R. Freund and Carman S. Gill 4. Understanding the Spiritual Domain Through Case Conceptualization, George Stoupas, Vassilia Binensztok, and Len Sperry Part II: Theories and Interventions 5. Spirituality and Existentialism, Jodi L. Tangen, and Andy D. Felton 6. Transpersonal Theory and Interventions, Scott L. Lipp, Carman S. Gill, and Ryan D. Foster 7. Adler's Individual Psychology & Spirituality, Robert R. Freund, Andrew Z. Baker, and Paul R. Peluso 8. Spiritual and Religious Interventions in "Third Wave" Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, Vassilia Binensztok, Tiffany Vastardis, and Carman S. Gill 9. Addressing Spiritual Themes with Narrative Therapy, Andrew Z. Baker and Robert R. Freund 10. 12-Step Spirituality, Karrol-Jo Foster 11. Family Systems: Genograms and Socio-metric Assessments, Brian Canfield 12. Addressing Spiritual and Religious Themes with Play, Creativity, and Experiential Interventions, W. Bryce Hagedorn, Elizabeth Pennock, and Laura Rendon Finnell 13. Special Issues and Interventions Related to Spiritual Issues, Elizabeth O'Brien and Carman S. Gill