Harold G Koenig, Charles J Topper

Spirituality in Pastoral Counseling and the Community Helping Professions (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Spirituality in Pastoral Counseling and the Community Helping Professions is a practical handbook for the helping professional who wants to tap into the healing powers of greater spiritual consciousness. Examining intriguing topics such as human spiritual needs, goals of spiritual helping, community interspirituality, social justice, and ethnic sources of religious practices, this book will open your eyes to the subtle ways that the sacred is present in everyday life. Each chapter includes penetrating reflection questions to help you better understand your own spiritual perspective and a list of suggested sources to help you learn more. A step-by-step guide to increasing awareness of the divine within everyone, no matter his or her religion, Spirituality in Pastoral Counseling and the Community Helping Professionsis a resource you'll refer to again and again.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136387753
• Artikelnr.: 38257963

Autorenporträt

Harold G Koenig, Charles J Topper

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Spirituality: A Growing Focus for Professional Caregivers
What Is Spirituality?
Spirituality and Healthy Religion
Core Human Spiritual Needs
Case Studies
Spiritual Needs in Regard to Psychological and Religious Needs
Expanding the Language of Spiritual Needs
Naming Spiritual Needs
Spiritual Well-Being and Health
Spiritual Distress and Religious or Spiritual Problems
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Spiritual Assessment
Foundations
Spiritual Assessment and the Psychological Helping Professional
Spiritual Assessment and the Religious Helping Professional
The Basic Process of Spiritual Assessment
A Beginning Model of Spiritual Assessment
Chapter 3. The Process of Spiritual Care
Step One: Address the Focus of Care Needed
Step Two: Assess Spiritual Needs
Step Three: Determine the Goals of Spiritual Care
Step Four: Relate Spiritual Care to the Helpee's Religion/Beliefs
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Tools for Spiritual Assessment: Spiritual Care As a Clinical Science
The Need for Spiritual Assessment Instruments
Stumbling Blocks to Spiritual Assessment
Clinical Instruments of Spiritual Assessment
Developmental Models of Spiritual Assessment
Semistructured Interview and Surveys
Developing Your Own Survey Questions
Guidelines for the Development of spiritual Assessment Surveys
Chapter 5. Basic Aptitudes and Skills of Spiritual Care
Ability to Develop a Caring and Healing Helping Relationship
Ability to Bring Spiritual Awareness into the Helping Relationship
Knowledge and Acceptance of Your Identity As a Spiritual Caregiver
Chapter 6. Broader Skills of Spiritual Care
Ability to respond to the Ethnic Heritage of Helpees' Spirituality
Ability to Work with Helpees' Pain, Loss, and grief
Ability to Utilize Helpees' Beliefs
Ability to Use Religious Resources
Chapter 7. A Community Model of Spiritual Care
Ability to Develop a Socially Responsible Focus in Spiritual Care
A Community Model of Spiritual Care
Spiritual Care Competencies of Professional Organizations
Organizational Standards of Spiritual Care
References
Recommended Reading
Index