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Spiritual Issues in Counseling: A New Course

✍ Scribed by MARY A. FUKUYAMA; TODD D. SEVIG

Publisher: American Counseling Association
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 740 KB
Volume: 36
Category: Article
ISSN: 0011-0035
DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1997.tb00391.x

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✦ Synopsis

A new course designed to explore spiritual issues that occur in counseling is described. Topics such as understanding spirituality, assessing client spiritual needs, and identifying spiritual issues in counseling are discussed within a multicultural framework.

In this article, spirituuZity refers to the individual's search for meaning and value in life and relationship with a transcendent power (Clinebell. 1995). Spirituality may be experienced and expressed through religion, defined as an organized system of faith, worship, cumulative traditions, and prescribed rituals. Spiritual issues that arise in counseling may or may not be associated with a religious belief system. Although religion has traditionally been the means for nurturing a spiritual life, in recent times more people are claiming to have found a sense of spirituality outside of organized religion (Ingersoll, 1994).

Recently, spiritual and religious issues are being formally recognized by the helping professions. For example, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual OfMental Disorders. fourth edition (LXSM-N; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) includes a category for religious or spiritual problems that may occur in counseling. Examples include experiencing stress related to the loss or questioning of faith, adjustment issues related to conversion to a new faith system, or questioning of spiritual values (American Psychiatric Association, 1994, p. 685). Although spiritual beliefs are a major component of the fabric of life in many cultures, the counseling field has overlooked their importance. Graduate counseling programs need to address these issues in their training programs in order to fully prepare their students for practice.

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