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Topical - Spirituality and Clinical Mental Health Counseling: A Database of Resources: Intro to Counseling Theories

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

Counseling Theories

Bibliography (Journal Articles)

  • Benjamin, P., & Looby, J. (1998). Defining the nature of spirituality in the context of Maslow's and Rogers's theories.

  • Counseling and Values, 42(2), 92-100. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/defining-nature-spirituality-context-maslows/docview/207575653/se-2

  • Bickerton, G. R., & Miner, M. (2023). Conservation of resources theory and spirituality at work: When a resource is not always a resource.

  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 15(2), 241–250. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000416

  • Correa, J.K., & Sandage, S.K. (2018). Relational spirituality as scaffolding for cognitive-behavioral therapy.

  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 5(1), 54-63. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000155

  • D’Souza, R.F., & Rodrigo, A. (2004). Spiritually augmented cognitive behavioural therapy.

  • Australasian Psychiatry, 12(2), 148-152. doi: 10.1080/j.1039-8562.2004.02095.x

  • Eliason, G. T., Samide, J. L., Williams, G., & Lepore, M. F. (2007). Existential theory and our search for spirituality.

  • Counseling et Spiritualité, 26(2), 127–151.

  • Gurney, A.G., & Rogers, S.A. (2007). Object-Relations and spirituality: Revisiting a clinical dialogue.

  • Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63(10), 961–977. doi:10.1002/jclp.20408

  • Halstensen, K., Gjestad, R., Wampold, B., Engedal, L. G., Stålsett, G., & Granqvist, P. (2025). Addressing patients’ relationships with god in psychotherapy: Exploring psychodynamic therapy, depressive

    • symptoms, and attachment to God. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 12(1), 85–97. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000309

  • Hodge, D.r., & Lietz, C.A. (2014). Using spiritually modified cognitive-behavioral therapy in substance dependence treatment: Therapists’ and clients’ perceptions of the

  • presumed benefits and limitations. Health and Social Work, 39(4), 200-210. doi: 10.1093/hsw/hlu022

  • Jodry, J., & Levitt, R. B. (2023). Feminist counseling theory and spirituality: Beyond patriarchal religious constructs.

  • Counseling & Values, 68(1),18–37. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1163/2161007X-68010003

  • Leijssen, M. (2008). Encountering the sacred: Person-centered therapy as a spiritual practice.

  • Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 7(3), 218-225. Doi: 10.1080/14779757.2008.9688467

  • Papaleontiou–Louca, E., Esmailnia, S., & Thoma, N. (2021). A critical review of maslow’s theory of spirituality.

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 24(4), 327–343. https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2021.1932694

  • Santiago, P.N., & Gall, T.L. (2016). Acceptance and commitment therapy as a spiritually integrated psychotherapy.

  • Counseling and Values, 61, 239-254. doi: 10.1002/cvj.12040

  • Sauerheber, J. B.,& Bitter, J.R. (2013). An Adlerian approach in premarital counseling with religious couples.

  • The Journal of Individual Psychology, 69(4), 305-327. Retrieved from https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/journal-of-individual-psychology

  • Serra, G. L. O. (2021). Psycho-religious counseling approach towards the existential “meaning of being.”

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 24(4), 400–414. DOI 10.1080/19349637.2021.2006855

  • Temple, M., & Gal, T.L. (2018). Working through existential anxiety toward authenticity: A spiritual journey of meaning making.

  • Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 58(2), 168-193. doi: 10.1177/00221767816629968

  • Tummala-Narra, P. (2009). The relevance of a psychoanalytic perspective in exploring religious and spiritual identity in psychotherapy.

  • Psychoanalytic Psychology, 26(1), 83-95. doi: 10.1037/a0014673

  • van Kalmthout, M. (2008). Meaning in a godless universe: A challenge for person-centered therapy.

  • Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 7(1), 57-69. Doi: 10.1080/14779757.2008.9688452