Bringing Religion and Spirituality Into Therapy

<p><em>Bringing Religion and Spirituality into Therapy</em> provides a comprehensive and timely model for spirituality-integrated therapy which is truly pluralist and responsive to the ever-evolving World of religion/spirituality. </p><p>This book presents an algorithmic process-based model for organizing the abundance of theoretical and practical literature around how psychology religion and spirituality interact in counseling. Building on a tripartite framework the book discusses the practical implications of the model and shows how it can be used in the context of assessment and case formulation research clinical competence and education and the broad framework ties together many strands of scholarship into religion and spirituality in counseling across a number of disciplines. Chapters address the concerns of groups such as the unaffiliated non-theists and those with multiple spiritual influences.</p><p>This approachable book is aimed at mental health students practitioners and educators. In it readers are challenged to develop richer ways of understanding being and intervening when religion and spirituality are brought into therapy.</p>