The Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling II: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy

by Helmeke, Karen B.; Sori, Catherine Ford

• ISBN13: 9780789031327
• ISBN10: 0789031329
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

More activities to tap into the strength of your clients' spiritual beliefs to achieve therapeutic goals. The Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling IIis the second volume of a comprehensive two-volume resource that provides practical interventions from respected experts from a wide range of backgrounds and theoretical perspectives. This volume includes several practical strategies and techniques to easily incorporate spirituality into psychotherapy. You'll find in-session activities, homework assignments, and client and therapist handouts that utilize a variety of therapeutic models and techniques and address a broad range of topics and problems. The chapters of The Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling IIare grouped into four sections: Models of Therapy Used in Integrating Spirituality; Integrating Spirituality with Age-Specific Populations: Children, Adolescents, and the Elderly; Integrating Spirituality with Specific Multicultural Populations; and Involving Spirituality when Dealing with Illness, Loss, and Trauma. As in Volume One, each clinician-friendly chapter also includes sections on resources where the counselor can learn more about the topic or technique used in the chapter-as well as suggested books, articles, chapters, videos, and Web sites to recommend to clients. Every chapter follows the same easy-to-follow format: objectives, rationale for use, instructions, brief vignette, suggestions for follow-up, contraindications, references, professional readings and resources, and bibliotherapy sources for the client. The Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling IIadds more useful activities and homework counselors can use in their practice, such as: using religion or spirituality in solution-oriented brief therapy Cast of Character counseling using early memories to explore adolescent and adult spirituality cognitive behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder age-specific clients such as children or the elderly multicultural populations and spirituality dealing with illness, loss, and trauma recovering from fetal loss creative art techniques with caregivers in group counseling and much more! The Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling IIprovides even more creative and helpful homework and activities that are perfect for pastoral counselors, clergy, social workers, marriage and family therapists, counselors, psychologists, Christian counselors, educators who teach professional issues, ethics, counseling, and multicultural issues, and students.

Table of Contents

Including religion or spirituality on the menu in solution-oriented brief therapy	p. 3
Releasing our spirit : the internal family systems model	p. 11
"Cast of character" counseling	p. 21
Exploration of adolescent and adult spirituality through early memories : an Adlerian psychological perspective	p. 27
Cognitive-behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder with religious features	p. 37
Enhancing reliance on God as a supportive attachment figure	p. 47
Integrating spirituality when working with children and families experiencing loss of a parent	p. 67
Exploring spirituality with children in counseling	p. 83
The movie connection : addressing adolescent values	p. 93
Cell phones, the Internet, and God? Online with adolescent spirituality	p. 101
God's box of love	p. 109
"My spiritual life" : conducting a spiritual life review with the elderly	p. 115
Assessing African-American spiritual and religious orientation	p. 129
Spiritually sensitive counseling with Jewish clients and families	p. 141
Recruiting a spiritual team : saints and family systems	p. 157
Helping lesbian and gay clients work toward positive spiritual health	p. 163
Spiritual journey mapping with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients	p. 177
Exploring spirituality within the crucible of illness and healing	p. 191
Autoethnography : a tool for coping with chronic illness	p. 203
Using psalms as spiritual tools in coping with medical illness	p. 209
Deconstructing God in relation to the reconstruction of self	p. 217
Spiritual steps for couples recovering from fetal loss	p. 223
Am I a father? : a husband's miscarriage	p. 231
Using creative arts techniques to address spirituality with caregivers in group counseling	p. 243
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