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Book SynopsisSpirituality and Religion in Counseling and Psychotherapy offers a practical approach that utilizes thematically based, personally accessible notions of spirituality and an integration of various traditional and contemporary counseling theories.
Table of ContentsPreface xiii
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Author xxiii
1 Spiritual Competencies and Premises 1
Central Premises 5
Spirituality and Religion 20
2 Client-Defined Spirituality 23
Remembering 28
External Presence and Inner Knowing 29
Transcendent and Ordinary Experiences 31
Present Moment Awareness 32
Interconnectedness 33
Love and Fear 35
Free Will 36
Creativity and Artistic Expression 38
Nature and Natural Beauty 39
Openheartedness 40
Personal Relationship 41
Thematic Integration 42
3 Integrating Spirituality With Psychological Theories 45
Freud 45
Jung 46
Object Relations and Attachment Theories 48
Interpersonal Theory: Horney 51
Humanism: Rogers 52
Control-Mastery Theory: Weiss 54
Internal Family Systems Theory: Schwartz 57
Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Linehan 59
Transpersonal and Integral Theories 60
Life Span Development Theories 62
Thematic Integration 65
4 Getting Lost: Psychological and Spiritual Perspectives 69
Why Clients Get Lost 71
A Spiritual Perspective 87
5 Spiritual Health and Abundance: Practical Steps 101
Being Open to Client-Defined Spirituality 101
Utilizing Spirituality for Resourcing 109
Inviting Spirituality to Inform Personal Integrity 111
Evaluating Life Structures 113
Remembering and Committing to Spiritual Practice 123
6 Integrating the Shadow 125
The Shadow 126
How Shadows Form 129
When Clients Marry Their Shadow 134
Integration 141
7 Self and No-Self 149
No-Self 150
An Integration of Self and No-Self 157
Helping Clients Reclaim Their Real Self 160
8 How Spiritually Oriented Therapy Helps 169
A Collaborative Team 172
Self-Awareness 174
Insight 179
Reexperiencing Relational Dynamics 181
New Relationship With the Real Self 184
Embracing Inner Health 187
Embracing Relationship Health 189
Utilizing Spiritually Oriented Therapy 190
Final Thoughts 193
9 Spiritual-Differentiation 195
The Identity and Differentiation Process 196
Characteristics of Well-Differentiated Individuals 201
Increasing Differentiation 213
Increasing Therapist Spiritual-Differentiation 217
References 223
Author Index 245
Subject Index 249
