Download or read book Spirituality and Religion in Counseling written by Carman S. Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Integrating Spirituality and Religion Into Counseling written by Craig S. Cashwell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, experts in the field discuss how spiritual and religious issues can be successfully integrated into counseling in a manner that is respectful of client beliefs and practices. Designed as an introductory text for counselors-in-training and clinicians, it describes the knowledge base and skills necessary to effectively engage clients in an exploration of their spiritual and religious lives to further the therapeutic process. Through an examination of the 2009 ASERVIC Competencies for Addressing Spiritual and Religious Issues in Counseling and the use of evidence-based tools and techniques, this book will guide you in providing services to clients presenting with these deeply sensitive and personal issues. Numerous strategies for clinical application are offered throughout the book, and new chapters on mindfulness, ritual, 12-step spirituality, prayer, and feminine spirituality enhance application to practice. *Requests for digital versions from the ACA can be found on wiley.com. *To request print copies, please visit the ACA website here: https://imis.counseling.org/store/detail.aspx?id=78161 *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]

Download or read book Religion and Spirituality in Counselor Training written by Elizabeth Anne Olson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a call for further integration of religion and spirituality into counselor training due to a large percentage of the American population reporting that religion and spirituality are important factors in their lives. Yet this integration seems to rarely occur. Although issues of religion and spirituality are generally seen to be at least somewhat important in clinical practice, training programs have still been slow to integrate these issues into curriculum, practicum training, supervision and research. Attention had been directed toward understanding the integration of, or hesitation to integrate, religion and spirituality into counselor training, but this focus has most often been from the perspective of clinicians or educators, and rarely from the perspective of the counselor trainee. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to explore the counseling psychology student's perspective on integrating religion and spirituality in training, looking specifically at perceived importance of religion and spirituality in training. Factors influencing the perceived levels of importance of students are explored, including religious affiliation, program openness, openness, quest orientation to religion, cognitive orientation toward spirituality and multicultural competence. Results indicated that, for doctoral counseling students, program and personal variables explain a significant portion of the variance in perceived importance of integrating religion and spirituality into counselor training, with quest orientation to religion and cognitive orientation toward spirituality being significant predictors while controlling for organized and non-organized religious activity. Exploratory analyses were also conducted to assess students' training experiences, work with clients, interest in integrating religion and spirituality into training and thoughts about how to integrate religion and spirituality into training. Findings are described in detail and implications and recommendations for future training are discussed.

Download or read book Bringing Religion and Spirituality Into Therapy written by Joseph A. Stewart-Sicking and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Counseling and Spirituality written by Joshua Mark Gold and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative and reflective, Counseling and Spirituality helps readers integrate spiritual and clinical perspectives of counseling in order to successfully support clients' religious or spiritual journeys by utilizing appropriate knowledge and interventions. With cultural concerns such as religion and spirituality growing in importance and interest in the helping professions, this book serves to define varieties of spiritual beliefs, assess spiritual wellness, and apply theory- and practice-based approaches to individualized spiritual counseling situations. Author Joshua Gold helps readers contemplate how they see religion and spirituality in their own lives and appraise how their own spirituality sways who they are as clinicians and what they do in the provision of mental health services for their clients. What reviewers have to say about Counseling and Spirituality "This text is an impressive effort at integrating a complex and largely ignored subject... It strongly encourages the counseling field to take up the challenge of accepting what the majority of clients find important, spirituality and religion, and growing in our understanding, knowledge, and appreciation of its place in the counseling process." --Randall R. Lyle, St. Mary's University "The use of case examples, self-understanding exercises, and further learning allows the reader to engage in the text in a meaningful manner... More specifically, the case-study is not merely presented, but revisited at the end of the chapters allowing the reader to ponder the example while learning new information, and ultimately gain a potentially new perspective as she or he learns the outcome." --Guerda Nicolas, Boston College

Download or read book Integrating Religion and Spirituality Into Counseling written by Marsha Wiggins Frame and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is intended to help counselors and other mental health practitioners make informed and effective interventions with clients for whom religion and spirituality are significant concerns. It is comprehensive, providing information on religious systems and spiritual beliefs as well as clinical strategies and interventions. Throughout the text, the author weaves the theme in of understanding how the counselor's own worldview and values impact working with clients and offers activities and cases for exploring this further.

Download or read book Religious and Spiritual Issues in Counseling written by Mary Thomas Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious and Spiritual Issues in Counseling is a comprehensive resource for counselors, psychotherapists and psychologists seeking to understand and incorporate the spiritual dimension of a client's person, and to use this understanding in developing successful intervention strategies with clients. Including case studies and exercises for self-exploration, this book covers specific groups, such as the elderly, the homeless as well as multicultural populations. Human development concerns are integrated into the book and address the changing role that spirituality plays throughout the lifespan.

Download or read book Spirituality and Religion in Counseling and Psychotherapy written by Eugene W. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to help counselors move from a respectful but hesitant neutrality to a skilled, and action-oriented sensitivity toward their clients' spirituality. The primary audience is professional counselors and psychotherapists, social workers, counselor and therapist educators, and counselors-in-training in college programs. The book presents and discusses recent theory and research on spirituality and religion with regard to counseling and psychotherapy. It builds on the premise that spirituality and religion deserve counselors' sensitive regard, informed understanding, and, as ethically and therapeutically appropriate, skillful integration into effective counseling treatment. The first two chapters present information, concepts, and background knowledge that undergird counseling approaches, skills, and techniques. Chapter Three focuses on the relationship dimension of counseling and discusses principles and practices for relating the spiritual/religious dimension of the counseling relationship. Chapter Four looks at systematic approaches for evaluating the appropriateness of including spiritual and religious issues in counseling, and Chapter Five addresses a variety of treatment approaches and techniques for working with clients' spiritual and religious concerns. (Contains over 400 references and an index.) (RJM)

Download or read book Integrating Spirituality and Religion with Counselors in training in Practicum written by Nikki Renee Ruffin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 20 years, the counseling profession has increased the amount of research and focus on integrating spirituality and religion into applied practice, curriculum, and supervision. In the last few years, some have argued that spirituality is the fifth force in the counseling field. The purpose of this study was to (a) explore counseling students' exposure to religious and spiritual issues in counseling (SRIC) practica and their comfort with addressing SRIC with clients, (b) explore counseling students' exposure to an intervention of SRIC practica and their perceived competence with addressing SRIC with clients, and (c) assess the impact of an SRIC intervention that was based on the ASERVIC competencies on counselors-in-training (CITs) in regard to their comfort level and perceived competence addressing SRIC. Results revealed that an SRIC intervention had a positive impact on CITs' perceived comfort and perceived competence integrating SRIC and that there was a positive correlation between their perceived comfort and perceived competence scores. Institutional accreditation type, religious versus secular institution, and religious self identification had no effect on increased comfort and perceived competence of CITs for this study. Implications for counseling practice, practicum supervision, and counselor education pedagogy are discussed.

Download or read book The Graduate Training of Counselors in Religious and Spiritual Competency written by Christopher Michael Adams and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing cultural diversity in the United States (U.S.) has challenged counselors to become knowledgeable about various culturally-relevant factors, including clients' religious and spiritual beliefs. These aspects of clients' cultural background and worldview may be overlooked, possibly due to the minimal attention paid to these in many counselors' own lives. Some authors (G. Miller, 1999; Young, Cashwell, Wiggins-Frame, & amp; Belaire, 2002) have developed competencies to assist counselors effectively address religious or spiritual (RS) issues in counseling. However, minimal research has evaluated such competencies, particularly within counselor education and training. The current study examined to what extent students within APA- and CACREP accredited counseling programs receive training in RS issues. The study also examined how important various RS competencies were to students and training directors (TDs), to what degree students are trained and prepared in these competencies, and how participants' own religiosity and spirituality were related to these. Results suggest that counseling programs generally do not offer courses specifically addressing RS issues and that most students do not receive supervision in these, although they are addressed with students' core coursework. Generally, participants believed the competencies to be at least moderately important. Although statistically significant differences were not found between students' and TDs' reports of training and preparation in the competencies, medium effect sizes were found for these differences. No differences were found based on program or degree type. Last, participants' religiosity was generally found to have a low positive correlation with the importance of the RS competencies, while spirituality was found to have low negative correlations with the importance of, and training and preparation in, the competencies. Limitations and implications of the present study are also addressed.

Download or read book Case Conceptualization written by Len Sperry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating recent research and developments in the field, this revised second edition introduces an easy-to-master strategy for developing and writing culturally sensitive case conceptualizations and treatment plans. Concrete guidelines and updated case material are provided for developing conceptualizations for the five most common therapy models: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic, Biopsychosocial, Adlerian, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The chapters also include specific exercises and activities for mastering case conceptualization and related competencies and skills. Also new to this edition is a chapter on couple and family case conceptualizations, and an emphasis throughout on trauma. Practitioners, as well as graduate students in counseling and in clinical psychology, will gain the essential skills and knowledge they need to master case conceptualizations.

Download or read book Critical Incidents in Integrating Spirituality into Counseling written by Tracy E. Robert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling casebook integrates critical incidents, spirituality, and counseling with diverse populations dealing with issues across the life development continuum. It offers counselor educators, students, and clinicians a highly useful educational tool for more effective teaching and practice that will foster lively discussion, case conceptualization, and intervention skills. Using an applied format, the book is organized in seven sections: life span issues, spirituality and wellness, specific disorders, substance abuse, career, diverse populations, and spiritual interventions. More than 50 contributors have been selected either to present specific incidents or to react to them. After each case is described, an expert practitioner answers the questions posed and provides additional insight and alternative strategies. The editors then offer their reflections, providing a concise summary of counseling outcomes. *Requests for digital versions from ACA can be found on www.wiley.com. *To purchase print copies, please visit the ACA website. *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]

Download or read book Religious and Spiritual Issues in Counseling written by Mary Thomas Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious and Spiritual Issues in Counseling is a comprehensive resource for counselors, psychotherapists and psychologists seeking to understand and incorporate the spiritual dimension of a client's person, and to use this understanding in developing successful intervention strategies with clients. Including case studies and exercises for self-exploration, this book covers specific groups, such as the elderly, the homeless as well as multicultural populations. Human development concerns are integrated into the book and address the changing role that spirituality plays throughout the lifespan.

Download or read book Religious and Spiritual Issues in Counseling written by Mary Thomas Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious and Spiritual Issues in Counseling is a comprehensive resource for counselors, psychotherapists and psychologists seeking to understand and incorporate the spiritual dimension of a client's person, and to use this understanding in developing successful intervention strategies with clients. Including case studies and exercises for self-exploration, this book covers specific groups, such as the elderly, the homeless as well as multicultural populations. Human development concerns are integrated into the book and address the changing role that spirituality plays throughout the lifespan.

Download or read book Training in Religious spiritual Issues in Counseling Psychology written by Nicolás Troyáno-Vazquez and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pastors as Counselors written by Dr Harry Jay and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion & Spirituality - Pastors as Counselors weaves its way through the intricate world of counseling specifically as it pertains to licensed ministers and pastors. Living in a litigious society, pastors providing counseling services are quickly becoming a thing of the past. A pastor attempting to counsel a parishioner is subject to the same rules and laws as licensed and trained counselors. In an attempt to bring pastors into the real world, Religion & Spirituality - Pastors as Counselors outlines what a pastor must do to be compliant as well as teaches the various types of the most common mental maladies that they will face. Every pastor should have this book as a part of their personal library. Religion & Spirituality - Pastors as Counselors is not a book on spiritualism and in fact it is a book of spirituality vs religion. It delineates what are the differences in religions and speaks about religion spirituality.

Download or read book Integrating Spirituality and Religion Into Counseling written by Craig S. Cashwell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, experts in the field discuss how spiritual and religious issues can be successfully integrated into counseling in a manner that is respectful of client beliefs and practices. Designed as an introductory text for counselors-in-training and clinicians, it describes the knowledge base and skills necessary to effectively engage clients in an exploration of their spiritual and religious lives to further the therapeutic process. Through an examination of the 2009 ASERVIC Competencies for Addressing Spiritual and Religious Issues in Counseling and the use of evidence-based tools and techniques, this book will guide you in providing services to clients presenting with these deeply sensitive and personal issues. Numerous strategies for clinical application are offered throughout the book, and new chapters on mindfulness, ritual, 12-step spirituality, prayer, and feminine spirituality enhance application to practice. *Requests for digital versions from the ACA can be found on wiley.com. *To request print copies, please visit the ACA website here: https://imis.counseling.org/store/detail.aspx?id=78161 *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]