Ms Becvar's spiritual orientation involves awareness of a transcendent dimension that provides a context for all relationships. Life has a larger meaning and purpose related to growth and development of souls of the world as well as the individual. He proposed that a postmodernist perspective of social contructionism can mitigate personal clinician barriers such as different belief systems. In a social contructionist perspective, knowledge is more than objectivity through empirical investigation. Knowledge and meaning are created within the therapeutic interaction and grounded in previous learning within the context of history and culture.
Classifications are socially contructed products of our culture.
To be effective in using this perspective, the author proposed that clinicians need to be trained. He advised that sufficient education would be necessary to prepare therapists for addressing the spiritual area. Spirituality includes an awareness of the connectedness of all that is. All of life has meaning and purpose. The authors noted that male standards have dominated thought about spirituality and affected women's perceptions of themselves.