Responses by heads of CACREP‐accredited programs to a survey indicate that client religious beliefs are considered to be important curricular components in just over half of the programs.
Religious beliefs are an aspect of clients' cultural background that should be considered an important aspect of multicultural awareness in the counselor education curriculum.
The authors describe the design of and student reaction to a counseling and spirituality course offered to full-time resident counselor education students at the University of Virginia, a secular university. The course was offered as a blended Internet-based and seminar course.The Internet components were the result of student feedback from previous distance Internet courses. Positive student reactions to both the content and the method were reported. The students viewed the Internet discussion of spiritual and religious isues as a positive feature of the course. Their most common suggestion was to have more seminar meetings to discuss the issues raised in required Internet postings.
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