Spiritual Competency in Psychotherapy

Brownell explores spirituality inside the practice of psychotherapy in order to foster clinician competency, and provides gestalt analysis to promote the emergence of a picture and an experience. There are 18 chapters divided into three parts: what is spirituality; spiritual practices in psychotherapy; common spiritual issues encountered in therapy. Chapters are: spirit; spirituality and religion; spirituality as process; spirituality as relationship; personal spirituality; spiritual work in the context of a therapeutic relationship; personal spirituality; spiritual work in the context of a therapeutic relationship; spiritual work in the context of a complex situation; spiritual work and the interpretation of experience; spiritual work and the movement to enactment; living in the present; the issue of truth; faith and uncertainty; communal belonging; dissatisfaction with god; rigidity and legalism; abuse; spiritism, spiritualism, and the occult; endings, death, and personal eschatology. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)