1st Edition

Spirituality and Family Therapy

368 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

378 Pages
by Routledge

Let spirituality enhance the effectiveness of your marriage and family therapy practice! The field of marriage and family therapy is starting to acknowledge that spiritual and religious issues are a valuable part of the lives of both clients and therapists. Spirituality and Family Therapy provides you with important information about this growing trend, including guidelines for therapists who... Read more
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • A Conversation About Spirituality in Marriage and Family Therapy: Exploring the Possibilities
  • Spirituality and Theory
  • Spirituality: The Heart of Therapy
  • Spirituality: Lives and Relationship in Family-Therapy Concepts and Practices
  • Spirituality Research
  • Coping with a Child’s Death: Spiritual Issues and Therapeutic Implications
  • Spirituality and Meaning: A Qualitative Inquiry with Caregivers of Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Client’s Perceptions of Marriage and Family Therapists Addressing the Religious and Spiritual Aspects of Clients’ Lives: A Pilot Study
  • The Effect of Spiritual Beliefs and Practices on Family Functioning: A Qualitative Study
  • Spirituality and Ethics
  • A Cultural Trinity: Spirituality, Religion, and Gender in Clinical Practice
  • Addressing Spirituality in Its Clinical Complexities: Its Potential for Healing, Its Potential for Harm
  • Recognizing and Raising Spiritual and Religious Issues in Therapy: Guidelines for the Timid
  • Spirituality and MFT Training
  • The Spiritualities of Therapists’ Lives: Using Therapists’ Spiritual Beliefs as a Resource for Relational Ethics
  • Conversing and Constructing Spirituality in a Postmodern Training Context
  • Spiritual Approaches to Working with Specific Populations
  • Fathering, Faith, and Family Therapy: Generative Narrative Therapy with Religious Fathers
  • The Use of Christian Meditation with Religious Couples: A Collaborative Language Systems Perspective
  • The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders with Devout Christian Clients
  • Altar-Making with Latino Families: A Narrative Therapy Perspective
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Martin John Erickson, Thomas Carlson