Therapists' Use of Religious and Spiritual Interventions in Christian Counseling: A Preliminary Report

Walker, Donald F.; Gorsuch, Richard L.; Tan, Siang‐Yang

doi:10.1002/j.2161-007x.2005.tb00257.x

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“…There are very few empirical studies on the impact of counselors' religious or spiritual beliefs on their counseling work. Research with Christian counselors primarily addresses the use of religious and spiritual interventions in therapy (Walker, Gorsuch, & Tan, 2005) and the integration of religious beliefs with professional ethics (Evans, 2003). Beutler et al (2004) discussed how this gap in the research prevents counselors from obtaining an understanding of ways religious influences may be changing in psychotherapy.…”

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How Christian Spiritual and Religious Beliefs Help and Hinder Counselors' Empathy Toward Clients

Morrison

Borgen

2010

Counseling and Values

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The critical incident technique was used to examine how counselors' religion and spirituality help and hinder counselor empathy toward clients. Twelve counselors holding Christian beliefs identified 242 helping and 25 hindering incidents that formed 14 helping and 3 hindering categories. Categories reflected counselors relying on a natural connection to their spirituality, drawing from empathic roots in their religion or spiritual experience, and using commonalities shared with clients as a means of empathizing. Implications for research, counselor education, and counseling practice are discussed.T he aim of this study was to examine counselor empathy in depth as it relates to and is influenced by counselor spirituality. Empathy has been found to be the key component of the therapeutic alliance, outweighing techniques in its positive relationship to outcome (Goldfried, Greenberg, & Marmar, 1990). A meta-analysis by Bohart, Elliott, Greenberg, and Watson (2002) on empathy found its place under "effective elements" in Norcross's (2002) Psychotherapy Relationships That Work. These authors argued that "the time is ripe for the re-examination and rehabilitation of therapist empathy as a key change process in psychotherapy" (Bohart et al., 2002, p. 89).More generally, the quality of the connection between counselor and client has repeatedly been demonstrated as the most consistent element of successful counseling (e.g., Coale, 1998;Fiedler, 1950Fiedler, , 1951Mitchell, Bozarth, & Krauft, 1977;Patterson, 1984;Strupp, 1978; for reviews of the research, see Horvath & Bedi, 2002;Waddington, 2002). Bozarth (2002) conducted a comprehensive review of the research literature and found that the relationship variables most frequently related to therapeutic effectiveness were the core conditions identified by Rogers (1957), namely, empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard. For the purpose of this study, empathy was defined as a quality that requires the laying aside of one's views and values to enter the other's world without prejudice or judgment (Rogers, 1975). The recipient of empathy feels that "someone values him [or her], cares, [and] accepts the person that he [or she] is" (Rogers, 1975, p. 7).

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Section: Religion and Spiritualitymentioning

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How Christian Spiritual and Religious Beliefs Help and Hinder Counselors' Empathy Toward Clients

Morrison

Borgen

2010

Counseling and Values

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“…Clients seeking counseling services often want to integrate their spiritual or religious worldviews into treatment (Aten & Hernandez, ; Worthington & Sandage, ). Counselors who subscribe to a spiritual or religious worldview tend to be more open to implementing spiritual or religious interventions in counseling (Walker, Gorsuch, & Tan, ). However, these same clinicians often avoid implementing spiritual interventions or treatments in counseling because of the lack of evidence validating such modalities in clinical settings (Walker et al, ).…”

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Developing Spiritual Competencies in Counseling: A Guide for Supervisors

Hull

Suarez

Hartman³

2016

Counseling and Values

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The recently established competencies for addressing spiritual and religious issues in counseling (Association of Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling, 2009) provide guidelines for counselors to implement in conjunction with evidence-based counseling practices. These spiritual competencies complement the ethics code established by the American Counseling Association (2014) in promoting increased cross-cultural sensitivity and proficiency in counseling. Supervisory tools that promote the ethical and spiritual development of counseling trainees are identified and described.

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“…There is also a tendency, however, for professionals to adhere to their own spirituality when choosing the application of spiritual interventions and technique with clients, as research has shown (Crisp, 2010;Sheridan, 2009;Walker, Gorsuch & Tan, 2005;Mattison, Jayaratne & Croxton, 2000). This fact may place the therapeutic relationship in unequal power dynamics that favor the service provider (Vargas & Wilson 2011;Blow, Sprenkle, & Davis, 2007).…”

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Worldview Diagnostic Scale: Educational Instrument for Enhanced Pedagogy on Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Education

Neshama-Bannister¹

2016

IRHE

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The academic literature has identified the urgent need for training competency-based social workers on issues of religion and spirituality. The academic institutions, however, have not responded to this need with curricula inclusion and classroom pedagogy on the subject. This study offers a concrete methodology that attempts to bridge the identified gap. The introduced Worldview Diagnostic Scale (WDS) is a classroom instrument for enhanced pedagogy for teaching on religion and spirituality in social work education.

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Therapists' Use of Religious and Spiritual Interventions in Christian Counseling: A Preliminary Report

Cited by 27 publications

References 15 publications

How Christian Spiritual and Religious Beliefs Help and Hinder Counselors' Empathy Toward Clients

How Christian Spiritual and Religious Beliefs Help and Hinder Counselors' Empathy Toward Clients

Developing Spiritual Competencies in Counseling: A Guide for Supervisors

Worldview Diagnostic Scale: Educational Instrument for Enhanced Pedagogy on Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Education

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