Spirituality in counseling and psychotherapy : an integrative approach that empowers clients / Rick Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Chapter One Spiritual Competencies and Premises Basic Premises Spirituality and Religion Chapter Two Client-Defined Spirituality Remembering External Presence and Inner Knowing Transcendent and Ordinary Experiences Present Moment Awareness Interconnectedness Love and Fear Free Will Creativity and Artistic Expression Nature and Natural Beauty Open-Heartedness Personal Relationship Thematic Integration Chapter Three Integrating Spirituality with Psychological Theories Freud Jung Object Relations & Attachment Theories Interpersonal: Horney Humanism: Rogers Control-Mastery Theory: Weiss Internal Family Systems Theory: Schwartz Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Linehan Transpersonal and Integral Theories Life Span Development Theories Thematic Integration Chapter Four Getting Lost: Psychological and Spiritual Perspectives Why Clients Get Lost A Spiritual Perspective Chapter Five Spiritual Health and Abundance: Practical Steps Being Open to Client-Defined Spirituality Utilizing Spirituality for Resourcing Inviting Spirituality to Inform Personal Integrity Evaluating Life Structures Therapeutic Support for Evaluating Life Structures Remembering and Committing to Spiritual Practice Chapter Six Integrating the Shadow The Shadow How Shadows Form When Clients Marry their Shadow Integration Chapter Seven Self and No-Self No-Self An Integration of Self and No-Self Helping Clients Reclaim their Real Self Chapter Eight How Spiritually-Oriented Therapy Helps A Collaborative Team Self-Awareness Insight Re-Experiencing Relational Dynamics New Relationship with the Real Self Embracing Inner Health Embracing Relationship Health Utilizing Spiritually-Oriented Therapy Final Thoughts Chapter Nine Spiritual-Differentiation The Identity and Differentiation Process Characteristics of Well-Differentiated Individuals Increasing Differentiation Increasing Therapist Spiritual-Differentiation .

'Spirituality and Religion in Counseling and Psychotherapy offers a practical approach that utilizes thematically based, personally accessible notions of spirituality and an integration of various traditional and contemporary counseling theories. The author provides a model that integrates existing counseling theories, revolving around the concept of the Real Self, with spiritual themes. By encouraging readers to increase their personal awareness and spiritual differentiation, they can enhance their clinical effectiveness with spiritual issues and avoid ethical transgressions related to imposing their beliefs or personalizing client issues'-- Provided by publisher.