A spiritual strategy for counseling and psychotherapy
By: P. Scott Richards and Allen E. Bergin.
Contributors: Bergin, Allen E., 1934-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects.; Mental health counseling -- Religious aspects.; Psychotherapy patients -- Religious life.; Spirituality.
Description: This book is the first to provide guidance for integrating a theistic spiritual strategy into mainstream approaches to psychology and psychotherapy in order to reach a large, underserved population of clients with religious and spiritual beliefs. The theistic approach assumes that God exists, that human beings have an eternal spirit, or soul, and that God communicates with human beings through spiritual processes.

Richards and Bergin demonstrate a profound respect for the scientific method and argue that spirituality is also susceptible to scientific investigation. They place their proposed theistic strategy on a parallel path with the more traditional forms of psychotherapy that have evolved in the past 100 years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-370) and indexes.