Spirituality and the Therapeutic Process: A Comprehensive Resource from Intake to Termination
Jamie D. Aten, PhD, is an assistant professor of counseling psychology and assistant director of health and mental health research for the Katrina Research Center at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. He has published numerous research articles on religion and spirituality and is a coeditor of a forthcoming book on culture and clinical practice. His current research on the role of the African American church in overcoming rural mental health disparities and disaster mental health disparities is being supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Pew Charitable Trusts and Rand Gulf States Policy Institute, and Red Cross/MidSouth Foundation. He also serves as the representative to the Committee on Early Career Psychologists for Division 36 (Psychology of Religion) of the American Psychological Association and as the rural health coordinator for the Mississippi Psychological Association.Mark M. Leach, PhD, is director of training of the counseling psychology program in the Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. He has published numerous articles with diversity issues as their foundation, has authored or coedited three books and has two coedited books forthcoming. He is an associate editor of the journalPsychology of Religion and Spiritualityof the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 36 (Psychology of Religion) and is on the editorial boards of three other journals. He is a member of the Executive Committee for the International Section of APA Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology). His primary research interests are in the areas of culture and forgiveness, international counseling issues, spirituality and religion, comparative ethics, and suicide.