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Topical - Spirituality and Clinical Mental Health Counseling: A Database of Resources: Clinical Courses: Helping Relationships/ Practicum/ Internship

Spiritual resources are designated across common Mental Health Counseling Graduate Courses (including the 8 CACREP domains) for use in teaching, learning, and practical application of spiritual integration in counseling.

Books

Clinical Courses

Bibliography (Journal Articles)

  • Aten, J.D., & Worthington, E.L. (2009). Next steps for clinicians in religious and spiritual therapy: An endpiece.

  • Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session, 65(2), 224--229. doi: 10.1002/jclp.20562

  • Avent Harris, J. R. (2019). The Black Superwoman in spiritual bypass: Black women’s use of religious coping and implications for mental health professionals.

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 23(2), 180–196. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2019.1685925

  • Brown, D. R., Carney, J. S., Parrish, M. S., & Klem, J. L. (2013). Assessing spirituality: The relationship between spirituality and mental health.

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 15(2), 107–122. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2013.776442

  • Carlson, K. M., & González-Prendes, A. A. (2016). Cognitive behavioral therapy with religious and spiritual clients: A critical perspective.

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 18(4), 253–282. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2016.1159940

  • Clarke, P.B., Giordano, A.L., Cashwell, C.S., & Lewis, T. F. (2013). The straight path to healing: Using motivational interviewing to address spiritual bypass.

  • Journal of Counseling & Development, 91(1), 87-94. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6676.2013.00075.x

  • Frick, E. (2011). Transforming losses: A major task of spiritually integrated psychotherapy.

  • Religions, 2(4), 659–675. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.3390/rel2040659

  • Giordano, A.L., & Cashwell, C.S. (2014). Entering the sacred: Using motivational interviewing to address spirituality in counseling.

  • Counseling and Values, 59, 65-79. doi: 10.1002/j.2161-007X.2014.00042.x

  • Harper, K., Bohecker, L., Lewis, T., Lee, M., Edwards, N., Celoria, W., & Moore, D. (2023). Identifying systemic factors when counseling Black women of christian faith in the USA.

  • Journal of Religion and Health, 62(5), 3414–3429. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-023-01824-5

  • Hull, C.E., Suarez, E.C., & Hartman, D. (2016). Developing spiritual competencies in counseling: A guide for supervisors.

  • Counseling and Values, 61, 111-126. doi: 10.1002/cvj.12029

  • Johns, R.D. (2017). A spiritual question.

  • Qualitative Inquiry, 23(8), 631-638. doi: 10.1177/1077800417692362

  • Malviya, S., Meredith, P., Zupan, B., & Kerley, L. (2022). Identifying alternative mental health interventions: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of chanting and breathwork.

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 24(2), 191–233. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2021.2010631

  • Mandelkow, L., Austad, A., & Freund, H. (2021). Stepping carefully on sacred ground: religion and spirituality in psychotherapy.

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 24(3), 288–308. DOI 10.1080/19349637.2021.1939834

  • Martinez, J.S., Smith, T.B., & Barlow, S.H. (2007). Spiritual interventions in psychotherapy: Evaluations by highly religious clients.

  • Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63(10), 943–960. doi: 10.1002/jclp.20399

  • Moreira-Almeida, A., Koenig, H.G., & Lucchetti, G. (2014). Clinical implications of spirituality to mental health: Review of evidence and practical guidelines.

  • Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 36, 176–182. doi: 10.1590/1516-4446-2013-1255

  • Morrison, M., & Borgen, W.A. (2010). How Christian spiritual and religious beliefs help and hinder counselors’ empathy towards clients

  • Counseling and Values, 55(1), 25-45. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-007X.2010.tb00020.x

  • Naor, L., & Mayseless, O. (2020). The therapeutic value of experiencing spirituality in nature.

  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 7(2), 114–133. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000204

  • Oakes, K.E., Raphel, M.M. (2008). Spiritual assessment in counseling: Methods and practice.

  • Counseling and Values, 52, 240-252. Retrieved from: http://www.aservic.org/counseling-and-values/

  • Pargament, K., Lomax, J., McGee, J. S., & Fang, Q. (2014). Sacred moments in psychotherapy from the perspectives of mental health providers and clients: Prevalence, predictors, and consequences.

  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice,1(4), 248-262. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000043

  • Plante, T.G. (2006). Principles of incorporating spirituality into professional clinical practice.

  • Practice Innovations, 1(4), 276-281. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pri0000030

  • Plante, T. G. (2022). Five spiritually based tools for clinical practice during challenging, stressful, and apocalyptic times.

  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 9(4), 272–277. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000304

  • Rodgerson, T.E. (2001). Depth and breath: A theory of pastoral counseling supervision.

  • Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry, 21, 273-288. Retrieved from: http://journals.sfu.ca/rpfs/index.php/rpfs

  • Scott, S.K., Sheperis, D.S., Simmons, R.T., Rush-Wilson, T., & Milo, L.A. (2016). Faith as a cultural variable: Implications for counselor training.

  • Counseling and Values, 61, 192-205. doi: 10.1002/cvj.12037

  • Soheilian, S.S., Inman, A.G., Klinger, R.S., Isenberg, D.S., & Kulp, L.E. (2014). Multicultural supervision: Supervisees’ reflections on culturally competent supervision

  • Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 27(4), 379-392. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2014.961408

  • Stewart-Sicking, J.A., Deal, P.A., & Fox, J. (2017). The ways paradigm: A transtheoretical model for integrating spirituality into counseling.

  • Journal of Counseling & Development, 95, 234- 241. doi: 10.1002/jcad.12135

  • Wilkinson, D. J. (2022). Does sexual identity and religious practice have implications for individual’s subjective health and wellbeing?: Secondary data analysis of the Community Life Survey.

  • Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 25(6), 563–577. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2021.2019206