Skip to Main Content Seminary logo

Topical - Spirituality and Clinical Mental Health Counseling: A Database of Resources: Spiritual Integration in Counseling

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

Spiritual Integration in Counseling

 

Image by Leo from Pixabay

Additional Resources

Bibliography (Journal Articles)

  • Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC). (2009).

  • Competencies for addressing spiritual and religious issues in counseling. Retrieved from http://www.aservic.org/resources/spiritual-competencies/

  • Blalock, S.M., & Holden, J.M. (2018). Preparing students to counsel clients with potentially spiritually transformative experiences.

  • Counseling and Values, 63, 31-44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-007X.2000.tb00158.x

  • Chaney, M.P., Dubaybo, F., & Chang, C.Y. (2020). Affirmative counseling with LGBTQ+ Arab Americans.

  • Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 42(4), 281-302. https://doi.org/10.17744/mehc.42.4.01

  • Davis, E. B., Granqvist, P., & Sharp, C. (2021). Theistic relational spirituality: Development, dynamics, health, and transformation.

  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 13(4), 401–415. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000219

  • Drob, S.L. (2012). Kabbalah, Jungian psychology, and the challenge of contemporary atheism.

  • Psychological Perspectives, 55, 142–162. doi: 10.1080/00332925.2012.677386

  • Dixon, S., & Wilcox, G. (2016). The counseling implications of neurotheology: A critical review.

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 18(2), 91-107. Doi: 10.1080/19349637.2015.1064804

  • Dumulescu, D., Necula, C., Sarca, D. M., & Cristea, G. W. (2022). Spiritual practices in psychological counseling: The return to the self.

  • Journal for the Study of Religion & Ideologies, 21(62), 20–36.

  • Edwards, S. (2018). Critical reflections on the interfaith movement: A social justice perspective.

  • Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 11(2), 164-181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000053

  • 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

  • Harris, K.A., Howell, D.S., & Spurgeon, D.W. (2018). Faith concepts in psychology: Three 30-Year definitional content analyses.

  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 10(1), 1-29. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000134

  • Henriksen, R. C., Polonyi, M. A., Bornsheuer, B. J. N., Greger, R. G., & Watts, R. E. (2015). Counseling students’ perceptions of religious/spiritual counseling training: A

  • qualitative study. Journal of Counseling & Development, 93(1), 59–69. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6676.2015.00181.x

  • 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

  • Hook, J.N., Worthington, E.L., Davis, D.E., Jennings, D.J., Gartner, A.L., & Hook, J.P. (2010). Empirically supported religious and spiritual therapies.

  • Journal of Clinical Psychology, 66(1), 46-72. doi: 10.1002/jclp.20626

  • Johnson, S. K., Heaton, L. R., & Galan-Cisneros, P. A. (2022). The use of spiritually integrated psychotherapies in mental health treatment centers.

  • Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 41(3), 241–259. doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2022.2054394

  • Karim, M., & Saroglou, V. (2023). Being agnostic, not atheist: Personality, cognitive, and ideological differences.

  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 15(1), 118–127. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000461

  • Koç, M. S. (2024). Integrating spirituality in psychological counseling: Historical insights and contemporary applications.

  • Spiritual Psychology & Counseling, 9(3), 301–320. doi.org/10.37898/spiritualpc.1402791

  • Lee, K. C. (George), & Tang, J. L. K. (2023). Note, know, choose: A psychospiritual treatment model based on early Buddhist teachings.

  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 10(2), 150–167. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000220

  • 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

  • Matise, M., Ratcliff, J., & Mosci, F. (2018). A working model for the integration of spirituality in counseling.

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 20(1), 27–50. doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2017.1326091

  • Meyer, D.D. (2012). Using drama therapy to explore religion and spirituality in counselor education.

  • Counseling and Values, 57, 241-251. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-007X.2012.00020.x

  • Morgan Consoli, M.L., Unzueta, E.G., Delucio, K., & Llamas, J. (2018). What shade of spirituality? Exploring spirituality, religiosity, meaning making, and thriving among Latina/o

  • undergraduates. Counseling and Values, 63,232-253. doi: 10.1002/cvj.12090

  • Myers, J.E., & Sweeney, T.J. (2008). Wellness counseling: The evidence base for practice.

  • Journal of Counseling & Development, 86, 482-493. doi: 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2008.tb00536.x

  • Oxhandler, H.K., & Pargament, K.I. (2018). Measuring religious and spiritual competence across helping professions: Previous efforts and future directions.

  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 5(2), 120-132. doi: 10.1037/scp0000149

  • Oxhandler, H. K., Polson, E. C., Ander, G., Moffatt, K. M., Pearce, M., Vieten, C., & Pargament, K. I. (2024). Helpful and harmful approaches to integrating religion and spirituality into mental health care: A

    • national survey of current clients’ experiences in the United States. Journal of Religion and Health, 63(4), 2924–2940. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-024-02072-x

  • Oxhandler, H. K., Polson, E. C., Pearce, M., Vieten, C., & Pargament, K. I. (2024). Current mental health clients’ religious/spiritual beliefs and practices: A national survey.

  • Social Work Research, 48(3), 163–175. doi.org/10.1093/swr/svae014

  • Paine, D. R., & Sandage, S. J. (2023). Disappointment in god and relational spirituality: Moderator effects for meditative prayer.

  • Journal of Psychology & Theology, 51(2), 278–295. DOI 10.1177/0091647119870296

  • Picciotto, G., Fox, J., Jesse, A., & Neto, F., Félix, F. M. (2018). A phenomenology of spiritual bypass: Causes, consequences, and implications.

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 20(4), 333–354. doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2017.1417756

  • Plante, T.G. (2008). What do the spiritual and religious traditions offer the practicing psychologist?

  • Pastoral Psychology, 56(4), 429–444. doi: 10.1007/s11089-008-0119-0

  • 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

  • Prati, G. (2024). Religion and well-being: What is the magnitude and the practical significance of the relationship?

  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 16(4), 367–377. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000515

  • Smith, A. (2017). Rock: An unlikely metaphor for spirituality, family therapy, mental health and illness.

  • Pastoral Psychology, 66, 743–756. doi: 10.1007/s11089-017-0783-z

  • 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

  • Walker, D.F., Gorsuch, R.L., & Tan, S. (2004). Therapists' integration of religion and spirituality in counseling: A meta-analysis.

  • Counseling and Values, 49, 69-80. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-007X.2004.tb00254.x

  • Zhang, H., Hook, J. N., Hodge, A. S., Coomes, S. P., Davis, C. W., van Tongeren, D. R., Davis, D. E., & Aten, J. D. (2021). Religious and spiritual struggles and coping amidst the

  • COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 8(4), 245– 261. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000272