Spiritual Interventions in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

✍ Scribed by Donald F. Walker (editor), William L. Hathaway (editor)

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents guidance for integrating spiritual interventions into psychotherapy with children and their families. The interventions are appropriate for a range of settings, presenting problems, and client belief systems. Specific chapters address the use of prayer, forgiveness, acceptance, spiritual awareness, sacred texts, and God images in therapy. Illustrative case studies are included, and ethical issues are given special consideration.

This groundbreaking volume will be a valuable resource for therapists who work with spiritually diverse children, adolescents, and their families.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
Foundations and Context
Chapter 1
Ethics, Religious Issues, and Clinical Child Psychology
Chapter 2
Assessment of Religious and Spiritual Issues in Clinical Child Psychology
Chapter 3
Addressing Parental Spirituality as Part of the Problem and Solution in Family Psychotherapy
Chapter 4 Spiritually Oriented Interventions in Developmental Context
Part II
Interventions
Chapter 5
Acceptance
Chapter 6
Spiritual Awareness Psychotherapy With Children and Adolescents
Chapter 7
Sacred Texts
Chapter 8
Prayer
Chapter 9
God Images
Chapter 10
Forgiveness Interventions With Children, Adolescents, and Families
Afterword: Reflections and Future Directions
Index
About the Editors