Integrating Spirituality into Treatment
Subtitle: Resources for Practitioners
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781557985811
Subjects: Clinical psychology; Faith healing & religious therapy; Psychological methodology; Spirituality; Psychotherapy; Spiritual Healing; Psychology; Spirituality - General; Mental Health; Psychotherapy - General; Religious aspects
Description: Provides clinicians with practical advice on including clients' spiritual perspectives in the therapeutic relationship. The book offers a history of the often tense relationship between spirituality and psychology and addresses broad, transtheoretical aspects of spirituality, including acceptance, forgiveness, hope, prayer, and meditation. It also introduces reliable and valid measures that can be used for assessing spirituality and provides examples of spiritually based interventions and collaborations that can enhance successful treatment. Finally, the book discusses professionals' responsibility to teach future therapists to embrace a range of spiritual perspectives and to demonstrate a sincere respect for client diversity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).