Spirituality and Public Mental Health: A Survey of California County Behavioral Health Directors

From personal experience to clinical practice to research: A career path leading to public policy changes in integrating spirituality into mental health.

“…Some Directors expressed the view that spirituality and religion are so important that it would be difficult to be culturally competent without being prepared to address these issues with clients for whom religion or spirituality is highly important. Several also acknowledged that Directors engaged in very little discussion of these issues with each other (Lukoff, Mancuso, & Yamada, 2014). The findings from these surveys have played a role in shaping public policy in mental health services in California.…”