Spirituality and Family Therapy

by Erickson; Martin John

• ISBN13: 9780789019615
• ISBN10: 0789019612
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-04-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The field of marriage and family therapy is starting to acknowledge that spiritual and religious issues are a valuable part of the lives of both clients and therapists. Spirituality and Family Therapy provides you with important information about this growing trend, including guidelines for therapists who are unsure how to integrate spiritual issues into their practice and detailed case studies that reveal why faith is a vital part of many clients' lives. Along with these features, you'll also find two unique conversational-style chapters where various authors explore their own beliefs and discuss the role of religion in their lives and careers. Spirituality and Family Therapy will help you understand your own spirituality and use it as an important resource in your relationships with clients.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Introduction
A Conversation About Spirituality in Marriage and Family Therapy: Exploring the Possibilities	1	(12)
Thomas D. Carlson
Martin J. Erickson
SPIRITUALITY AND THEORY
Spirituality: The Heart of Therapy	13	(16)
Harry J. Aponte
Spirituality: Lives and Relationships in Family-Therapy Concepts and Practices	29	(24)
Adam D. Coffey
SPIRITUALITY RESEARCH
Coping with a Child's Death: Spiritual Issues and Therapeutic Implications	53	(34)
Sean E. Brotherson
Jean Soderquist
Spirituality and Meaning: A Qualitative Inquiry with Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease	87	(22)
Angela L. Smith
Jennifer Harkness
Clients' Perceptions of Marriage and Family Therapists Addressing the Religious and Spiritual Aspects of Clients' Lives: A Pilot Study	109	(18)
Martin J. Erickson
Lorna Hecker
Dwight Kirkpatrick
Mark Killmer
Edassery James
The Effect of Spiritual Beliefs and Practices on Family Functioning: A Qualitative Study	127	(18)
C. Everett Bailey
SPIRITUALITY AND ETHICS
A Cultural Trinity: Spirituality, Religion, and Gender in Clinical Practice	145	(22)
L. Scott Kimball
Carmen Knudson-Martin
Addressing Spirituality in Its Clinical Complexities: Its Potential for Healing, Its Potential for Harm	167	(28)
Melissa Elliott Griffith
James L. Griffith
Recognizing and Raising Spiritual and Religious Issues in Therapy: Guidelines for the Timid	195	(20)
Karen B. Helmeke
Gary H. Bischof
SPIRITUALITY AND MFT TRAINING
The Spiritualities of Therapists' Lives: Using Therapists' Spiritual Beliefs as a Resource for Relational Ethics	215	(22)
Thomas D. Carlson
Martin J. Erickson
Angela Seewald-Marquardt
Conversing and Constructing Spirituality in a Postmodern Training Context	237	(22)
Saliha Bava
Chuck Burchard
Kayo Ichihashi
Avan Irani
Christina Zunker
SPIRITUAL APPROACHES TO WORKING WITH SPECIFIC POPULATIONS
Fathering, Faith, and Family Therapy: Generative Narrative Therapy with Religious Fathers	259	(32)
David C. Dollahite
Loren D. Marks
Michael M. Olson
The Use of Christian Meditation with Religious Couples: A Collaborative Language Systems Perspective	291	(18)
P. Gregg Blanton
The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Devout Christian Clients	309	(20)
J. Mark Killmer
Altar-Making with Latino Families: A Narrative Therapy Perspective	329	(20)
J. Maria Bermudez
Stanley Bermudez
Index	349