This article examines the advantages and disadvantages of 4 helping orientations of the counselor to religious and spiritual issues in psychotherapy: rejectionism, exclusivism, constructivism, and pluralism. The constructivist and pluralist approaches are advocated as those orientations best suited
One Approach to a Counseling and Spirituality Course
โ Scribed by Robert H. Pate; Maureen P. Hall
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 402 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0160-7960
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โฆ Synopsis
The authors describe the design of and student reaction to a counseling and spirituality course offered to full-time resident counselor education students at the University of Virginia, a secular university. The course was offered as a blended Internet-based and seminar course.The Internet components were the result of student feedback from previous distance Internet courses. Positive student reactions to both the content and the method were reported. The students viewed the Internet discussion of spiritual and religious isues as a positive feature of the course. Their most common suggestion was to have more seminar meetings to discuss the issues raised in required Internet postings. e accreditation standards of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Prograrns (CACREP; 2001) for counselor educadiversity are evidence that spirituality should be recognized as one aspect of comselee diversity. The need to include spirituality in counselor training has been recognized for more than a decade in the literature of the profession (
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