Spirituality and Mental Health
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-2476-3 (ISBN)
Even to clinicians practiced in helping clients to manage their stress, the impact of clients’ spirituality upon their mental health can be difficult to discern and discuss. Moreover, ethical dilemmas can arise when clinicians feel compelled to intervene with a client’s negative religious coping.
Spirituality and Mental Health: Clinical Applications can help. This thought-provoking guide for mental health professionals and pastoral counselors provides you with a framework to assess and incorporate client-based spirituality into your practice. The author provides case
examples and clinical models related to spirituality and mental health, as well as useful questionnaires for assessing clients. He provides a client-centered ethical framework for integrating spirituality into treatment, and then discusses how to apply it to clients’ problems, especially those related to life crises, resentment over past offenses, guilt over past mistakes, and
substance abuse. He also discusses how mindfulness meditation can enhance clients’ coping ability. Finally, he includes a useful Leader’s Guide for the psychoeducational spirituality group, which is designed to educate patients and church groups.
Spirituality and Mental Health: Clinical Applications shows how professionals in the above disciplines can address the impact of spirituality on clients by:
gaining an understanding of the construct of spirituality
assessing spirituality and its interface with clients’ presenting problems, particularly when spirituality is central to their values.
intervening sensitively in ways that use clients’ spiritual perspectives and practices to enhance their coping mechanisms.
using the included Leader’s Guide to the 5-session psychoeducational spirituality group
As the baby boom generation ages, faith becomes a more integral part of that generation’s consciousness. Whether you are a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a social worker, or a pastoral counselor, Spirituality and Mental Health: Clinical Applications is a resource that you’ll return to again and again as you work to improve the lives of your clients.
Gary W Hartz
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Definitions of Spirituality and Religion
Why Spirituality Now?
Definitions
Overlap Between Spirituality and Religion
Transcendence
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Assessment of Spirituality
A Coping Model of Assessment
Application of the Model to Clinical Practice
Positive and Negative Religious Coping
Assessing Values: Where Am I Going?
The DSM-IV’s Diagnosis of Religious or Spiritual Problem
Religious Issues and Psychiatric Disorders
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Ethical Issues in Spirituality and Mental Health
American Psychological Association Ethical Guidelines
A Client-Centered Ethical Framework
Specific Ethical Issues
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Meditation
Benefits of Meditation
Applications of Mindfulness Meditation to Coping
Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Letting Go of Anger and Practicing Forgiveness
Forgiveness As a Religious Principle
Definitions and Types of Forgiveness
Theoretical Phases of Forgiveness
Therapeutic Efficacy of Forgiveness
Potential Disadvantages of Forgiveness
Continuum of Forgiveness
The Continuing Controversy over Forgiveness
Self-Forgiveness
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Spiritually Attuned Intervention
Substance-Abusing Clients: The Twelve-Step Tradition
Clients in Crisis: Crisis As Danger and Opportunity
Devoutly Religious Clients: Religiously Adapted Therapy
Conclusion
Chapter 7. The Psychoeducational Spirituality Group
Background
Facilitators
Overview of the Sessions
Conclusion
Appendix A. The Psychoeducational Spirituality Group: A Guide for Group Facilitators
Planning: Materials and Session Length
Session One: What Is Spirituality for You?
Session Two: Meditation Without Prescribed Religious Content
Session Three: Coping with Grief
Session Four: Letting Go of Anger and Practicing Forgiveness
Optional Additional Session on Self-Forgiveness
Session Five: Crisis As Danger and Opportunity
Session Six: Gratitude
Appendix B. Reproducible Material
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.8.2005 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7890-2476-4 / 0789024764 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7890-2476-3 / 9780789024763 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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