| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 275 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255) and index. |
| Contents |
Part one : introduction -- About this book -- God : a word about a word -- Spirituality, spiritually -- Spirituality, conceptually -- Part two : working with your client's spirituality -- How spiritual conversation begins -- Spiritual assessment : what we need to know and how we come to know it -- Working with spiritual resources : spiritual interventions, part 1 -- Working with spiritual struggles : spiritual interventions, part 2 -- Working with harmful spirituality : spiritual interventions, part 3 -- Part three : working with your own spirituality -- Spirituality and your overall approach to psychotherapy -- Spirituality and specific moments in psychotherapy -- Spiritual countertransference -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Spirituality is an important part of many clients' lives. It can be a resource for stabilization, healing, and growth. It can also be the cause of struggle and even harm. More and more therapists - those who consider themselves spiritual and those who do not - recognize the value of addressing spirituality in therapy and increasing their skill for engaging it ethically and effectively. In this immensely practical book, Russell Siler Jones helps therapists feel more competent and confident about having spiritual conversations with clients. With a refreshing, down-to-earth style, he describes how to recognize the diverse explicit and implicit ways spirituality can appear in psychotherapy, how to assess the impact spirituality is having on clients, how to make interventions to maximize its healthy impact and lessen its unhealthy impact, and how therapists can draw upon their own spirituality in ethical and skillful ways. He includes extended case studies and clinical dialogue so readers can hear how spirituality becomes part of case conceptualization and what spiritual conversation actually sounds like in psychotherapy. Jones has been a therapist for nearly 30 years and has trained therapists in the use of spirituality for over a decade. He writes about a complex topic with an elegant simplicity and provides how-to advice in a way that encourages therapists to find their own way to apply it. Spirit In Session is a pragmatic guide that therapists will turn to again and again as they engage their clients in one of the most meaningful and consequential dimensions of human experience. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Spirituality -- Psychology.
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Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects.
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Psychology and religion.
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Psychology and religion |
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Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects |
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Spirituality -- Psychology |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Russell Siler. Spirit in session. West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania : Templeton Press, [2019] 1599475618 (OCoLC)1082178592 |
| ISBN |
9781599475622 (electronic bk.) |
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1599475626 (electronic bk.) |
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1599475618 |
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9781599475615 |
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