Spirituality--our relationship with the sacred--is expressed through our beliefs, practices, emotions, values, and relationships. Spirituality can play a vital role in understanding the problems clients face and the solutions they seek in psychotherapy.
This volume brings together top scholars who show how therapists can ethically and competently integrate spiritual perspectives and interventions into their practices and thereby more effectively treat clients from diverse religious, spiritual, racial, and cultural backgrounds.
The chapters present research, clinical guidance, and case studies representing a wide variety of approaches and settings, including community mental health centers, private practice offices, hospitals and medical clinics, universities, and prisons.
Given the important role that spirituality plays in many people's lives, this book will help practitioners bring attention, sensitivity, and evidence-based knowledge about the spiritual dimension into their psychotherapy practice.
P. Scott Richards is the President/CEO of Bridges Psychotherapy Solutions, LLC. He is a retired professor of counseling psychology at Brigham Young University. He is past president and fellow of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality division of the American Psychological Association (APA) and a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy of APA. He is the author of six APA books about spirituality and psychotherapy. He was the Principal Investigator of a $3.57 million-dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation about spiritual integrated psychotherapies, which was completed in 2020. Visit https: //bridgesps.com.
G. E. Kawika Allen is an assistant professor of counseling psychology at Brigham Young University. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed research articles about Polynesian psychology and culture, psychology of religion, and spiritual aspects of diversity. He is secretary of Division 45 of the American Psychological Association. He was a project co-director of the grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
Daniel K Judd is a retired professor and former dean of religious education at Brigham Young University. Dr. Judd has a doctorate degree in counseling psychology. He is a researcher, educator, psychologist, and pastoral professional. He was project co-director of the grant from the John Templeton Foundation. He is the author of several books and numerous journal articles about religion and mental health, including his recent book,
Let's Talk About Religion and Mental Health (Deseret Book, 2021).
