“…In addition, each profession that provides mental health treatment (e.g., psychology, social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy) requires its graduate training programs to abide by standing accreditation standards that include attention to the importance of respecting various areas of client diversity, including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/spirituality, age, culture, socioeconimic status, disability, and more (APA, 2015;ACAREP, 2016;COAMFTE, 2016;CSWE, 2015). Yet, complicating matters is the fact that, to date, there is no agreed upon set of spiritual competencies, training guidelines, or methods of evaluating such competency acquisition for mental health providers (Hodge, 2018;Oxhandler & Pargament, 2018;Vieten et al, 2016).…”