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Topical - Spirituality and Clinical Mental Health Counseling: A Database of Resources: Assessment & Testing/ Research & Evaluation

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

Assessment & Research

Bibliography (Journal Articles & Books)

  • Altemeyer, B. & Hunsberger, B. (2004). A revised religious fundamentalism scale: The short and sweet of it.

  • International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 14, 47-54. doi:10.1207/s15327582ijpr1401_4

  • Brown, I.T., Chen, T., Gehlert, N.C., & Piedmont, R.L. (2013). Age and gender effects on the assessment of spirituality and religious sentiments (ASPIRES) scale:

  • A cross-sectional analysis.Psychology of Religion & Spirituality, 5(2), 90-98. doi: 10.1037/a0030137

  • Butts, C.M., & Gutierrez, D. (2018). Expanding intake assessment to incorporate spirituality using five functional tasks.

  • Counseling and Values, 63, 147-163. doi: 10.1002/cvj.12085

  • Cashwell, C.S., Young, J.S., Tangen, J.L., Pope, A.L., Wagener, A., Sylvestro, H., Y Henson, R.A. (2016). Who is this god of whom you speak? Counseling students’ concept of

  • god. Counseling & Values, 61, 159-175. doi:10.1002/cvj.12035

  • Dailey, S.F., Robertson, L.A., & Gill, C.S. (2015). Spiritual competency scale: Further analysis.

  • Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 48(1), 15-29. doi:10.1177/0748175614544688

  • Davis, E.B., Cuthbert, A.D., Hays, L.W., Aten, J.D., Van Tongeren, D.r., Hook, J. N... & Boan, D. (2016). Using qualitative and mixed methods to study relational spirituality.

  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 8(2), 92-98. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000046

  • Davis, D.E., Rice, K., Hook, J.H., Van Tongeren, D.R., DeBlaere, C., Choe, E., & Worthington, E.L. (2015). Development of the sources of spirituality scale.

  • Journal of Counseling Psychology, 62(3), 503-513. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cou0000082

  • Dimitrova, R., & Espinosa, A.C.D. (2017). Factorial structure and measurement invariance of the four basic dimensions of religiousness scale among Mexican males and females

  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 9 (2), 231-238. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000102

  • Drake, D., Mizock, L., Bryant-Davis, T., & Harris-Britt, A. (2025). Pilot development and initial validation of the Black spiritual creativity scale.

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 27(1), 120–140. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2024.2304895

  • Fletcher, T.L., Lamkin, J.P., Stanley, M.A., Pargament, K.I., Farmer, A., Exline, J., & Teng, E.J. (2020). Characterizing religious and spiritual Struggles in U.S. veterans:

  • A qualitative study. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 7(3), 162–177. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000217

  • Fox, J., Cashwell, C.S., & Picciotto, G. (2017). The opiate of the masses: Measuring spiritual bypass and its relationship to spirituality, religion, mindfulness, psychological

  • distress, an personality. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 4(4), 274-287. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000141

  • Greggo, S.P., & Lawrence, K. (2012). Clinical appraisal of spirituality: In search of rapid assessment instruments (RAI) for Christian counseling.

  • Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 31(3), 253-266. Retrieved from: http://caps.net/membership/publications/jp

  • Hammer, J. H., Wade, N. G., & Cragun, R. T. (2020). Valid assessment of spiritual quality of life with the WHOQOL-SRPB BREF across religious, spiritual, and secular persons: A psychometric study.

  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 12(4), 440–450. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000266

  • Hill, P.C., & Edwards, E. (2013). Measurement in the psychology of religiousness and spirituality: Existing measures and new frontiers. In Pargament, K.I. (Ed.)

  • APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality: Vol. 1. Context, Theory, and Research(pp. 51-77). doi: 10.1037/14045-003

  • Hodge, D. R. (2013). Assessing spirituality and religion in the context of counseling and psychotherapy. In K.I. Pargament (Ed.)

  • APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality: Vol. 2. An Applied Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (pp. 93-123). doi: 10.1037/14046-005

  • Hodge, D.R., Zidan, T., & Husain, A. (2015). Validation of the intrinsic spirituality scale (ISS) with Muslims.

  • Psychological Assessment, 27(4), 1264-1272. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0000130

  • Jangha, A.G., Magyar-Russell, G., & O’Grady, K. (2018). Power within the counselor identity development of African American women in pastoral counseling.

  • Counseling & Values, 63, 76-90. doi: 10.1002/cvj.12074

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

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

  • Jones, T. L., Garzon, F. L., & Ford, K. M. (2021). Christian accommodative mindfulness in the clinical treatment of shame, depression, and anxiety: Results of an N-of-1

  • time-series study. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 1-13. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000221

  • Karaga, S., Davis, D.E., Choe, E., & Hook, J.N. (2016). Hypersexuality and religion/spirituality: A qualitative review.

  • Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 23(2-3), 167-181. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720162.2016.1144116

  • Magaldi, D. & Trub, L. (2018). (What) do you believe?: Therapist spiritual/religious/non-religious self-disclosure.

  • Psychotherapy Research, 28(3), 484–498. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2016.1233365

  • Minnix, G.M. (2018). Reconciling counselors’ christian beliefs and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender affirmation: A grounded theory.

  • Counseling & Values, 63, 110-128. doi: 10.1002/cvj.12076

  • 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

  • Nelson, J. M., Hardy, S. A., & Watkins, P. (2023). Transcendent indebtedness to God: A new construct in the psychology of religion and spirituality.

  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 15(1), 105–117. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000458

  • 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.I., Koenig, H.G., & Perez, L.M. (2000). The many methods of religious coping: Development and initial validation of the RCOPE.

  • Journal of Clinical Psychology, 56(4), 519-543. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(200004)56:4<519::AID-JCLP6>3.0.CO;2-1

  • Stanard, R.P., Sandhu, D.S., & Painter, L.C. (2000). Assessment of spirituality in counseling.

  • Journal of Counseling and Development, 78, 204-210. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6676.2000.tb02579.x

  • Wang, D.C., Aten, J.D., Boan, D., Jean-Charles, W., Griff, K.P., Valcin,C., Davis, E.B., Hook, J.N., Davis, D.E., Van Tongeren, D.R., Abouezzeddine, T., Skylar, Q., & Wang, A.

    (2010). Culturally adapted spiritually oriented trauma-focused cognitive–behavioral therapy for child survivors of restavek.

  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 3(4), 24-246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000101

  • Weaver, A.J., Flannelly, L.T., Garbarino, J., Figley, C.R., & Flannelly, K.J. (2003). A systematic review of research on religion and spirituality in the Journal of Traumatic Stress:

  • 1990–1999. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 6(3), 215-228. doi: 10.1080/136746703100008812

  • Zeligman, M., Ataga, J., & Shaw, Z. (2020). Posttraumatic growth in trauma survivors: Associations with attachment to god and god representation.

  • Counseling & Values, 65, 155-169. https://doi.org/10.1002/cvj.12135