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A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy, Second Edition shows mental health professionals how to deal sensitively with clients whose spirituality or religion is an important part of their lives. This book highlights the therapeutic possibilities religion and spirituality can offer. Building on the success of the first edition, the new edition provides timely updates and additional theoretical grounding for integrating a theistic, spiritual strategy into mainstream psychology. Also ideal for students and scholars, this book provides helpful background and insight into the history and philosophy of science and psychology, the world religions, the practice of psychotherapy, and the process of research and scientific discovery.

This book is the first to provide guidance for integrating a theistic spiritual strategy into mainstream approaches to psychology and psychotherapy in order to reach a large, underserved population of clients with religious and spiritual beliefs. The theistic approach assumes that God exists, that human beings have an eternal spirit, or soul, and that God communicates with human beings through spiritual processes. Richards and Bergin demonstrate a profound respect for the scientific method and argue that spirituality is also susceptible to scientific investigation. They place their proposed theistic strategy on a parallel path with the more traditional forms of psychotherapy that have evolved in the past 100 years.

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Embracing in the theistic world religions only that which is healthy and beneficial to all of humankind, the authors argue that psychotherapists should routinely assess the religious and spiritual system of their clients' lives in order to obtain a fuller and more accurate picture. Coverage includes the history of science and psychology, the major world religions, and the evolution of psychology; the traditional antagonisms between the spiritual and scientific domains; and case studies demonstrating the integration of theistic strategy into mainstream approaches. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

"In this second edition we concentrate on clearly and thoroughly laying out the foundations, rationale, and methods for a new psychotherapy strategy we call theistic psychotherapy. We invite mental health professionals who believe in God and spiritual realities to join with us in bringing this therapeutic tradition into the professional and academic mainstreams. In this edition we also provide an extensive update of the burgeoning empirical and clinical literature on spiritually oriented psychotherapies and treatment methods. We expand our discussions of the philosophical and theoretical foundations of our theistic spiritual strategy. We more fully describe a theistic view of science and scholarship. We also discuss progress that has been made in this domain during the past decade and discuss tasks that lie ahead in the quest to bring theistic perspectives and approaches more fully into the mainstream of mental health professions. This edition also constitutes a continuing effort to link advances in scholarship with recommendations for practice among clients who need interventions adapted to their beliefs and lifestyles"--Preface "The purpose of this volume is to describe concepts and interventions that will help mental health professionals implement a theistic psychotherapy approach in their practices. We also hope that the book will help psychotherapists, regardless of their theoretical orientations and personal religious backgrounds, to become more attuned to the spiritual issues in the lives of their clients so that they can assist them more effectively. This book is intended for practitioners, graduate students, and academicians in mainstream clinical and counseling psychology, psychiatry, clinical social work, and marriage and family therapy who wish to augment their secular training and skills with a spiritual framework and approach. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)"--Introduction Annotation Shows mental health professionals how to deal sensitively with clients whose spirituality or religion is an important part of their lives, while highlighting the therapeutic possibilities religion and spirituality can offer. The new edition provides timely updates and additional evidence of the benefit of a spiritual strategy to psychology. Ideal for Psychotherapists, counselors, grad students, pastoral counselors. Provides helpful background and insight into the history and philosophy of science and psychology, the world religions, the practice of psychotherapy, and the process of research and scientific discovery [This book] shows mental health professionals how to deal sensitively with clients whose spirituality or religion is an important part of their lives. This book highlights the therapeutic possibilities religion and spirituality can offer ... Also ideal for students and scholars, this book provides helpful background and insight into the history and philosophy of science and psychology, the world religions, the practice of psychotherapy, and the process of research and scientific discovery.-Dust jacket A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy, Second Edition shows mental health professionals how to deal sensitively with clients whose spirituality or religion is an important part of their lives. It highlights the therapeutic possibilities religion and spirituality can offer. Building on the success of the first edition, the new edition provides timely updates and additional theoretical grounding for integrating a theistic, spiritual strategy into mainstream psychology. 4317077-475 1 0 2 Table of Contents of: A spiritual strategy for counseling and psychotherapy, 2nd ed. 3 2005-06712-001 5 2005-06712-002 26 2005-06712-003 46 2005-06712-004 67 2005-06712-005 104 2005-06712-006 144 2005-06712-007 174 2005-06712-008 209 2005-06712-009 240 2005-06712-010 269 2005-06712-011 298 2005-06712-012 322