Compulsive Behavior, Counseling, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, TA & NLP, Spiritualism, Psychiatry, Religious Studies, Psychopathology 

Increasingly, spiritualty is recognized as vital for growth and essential for dealing with life’s trials. More and more individuals are seeking to incorporate the spiritual dimension into their daily lives. Clinicians, including psychotherapists, counselors and other mental health professionals, find that they are frequently called upon to provide spiritual information, guidance, and support to their clients. Yet until recently , exposure to the spiritual dimension of human experience has been largely absent from professional training, and thus many clinicians find themselves seeking to develop greater competence in this psycho-spiritual realm.
Spirituality in Clinical Practice: Incorporating the Spiritual Dimension in Psychotherapy and Counseling offer clinicians a broad theoretical overview of the spiritual dimension as well as effective strategies for incorporating spiritualty in the practice of psychotherapy and counseling. It includes perspectives not found in other texts: a developmental perspective integrating moral and spiritual development; a look at the interface of spiritual development with personality functioning; and insights from object- relations, self-psychology and transpersonal psychotherapy as they relate to various spiritual and religious concerns, countertransference, engagement strategies, and assessments methods for spiritual measures. Other unique features include approaches for combining spiritual practices with therapeutic interventions and strategies for incorporating spirituality in couples’ treatment. Finally, several prominent psychotherapist of various religious traditions discuss how they incorporate spirituality into their own clinical practice and personal lives.