A deep appreciation for the diversity of human spirituality informs this carefully crafted volume, which examines over two dozen religious traditions in the context of clinical practice. Knowledge of religious diversity, now considered part of multicultural competency in the mental health professions, is particularly crucial when the client's faith differs from one's own.
This book provides readers with the information needed to increase their competency in working sensitivity with members of each of the major faith communities in North America. Chapter authors, each accomplished clinicians and active in the religions they describe, help the reader understand the unique history, beliefs, rituals, and practices of the religion as well as commonly held views on such issues as divorce, homosexuality, birth control, abortion, suicide, and euthanasia. Within the context of the particular faith, chapter authors describe the therapeutic, focusing on building relationships, assessment and diagnosis, and common clinical issues. By providing therapists with in-depth denominationally specific information and clinical guidelines, this book will help all psychotherapists more fully honor and make use of the unique religious beliefs and spiritual resources of their clients.
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction and Overview
- Toward Religious and Spiritual Competency for Mental Health Professionals
—P. Scott Richards and Allen E. Bergin - Religious Diversity in North America
—Roger R. Keller
II. Christianity
- Psychotherapy With Roman Catholics
—Edward P. Shafranske - Psychotherapy With Eastern Orthodox Christians
—Tony R. Young - Psychotherapy With Mainline Protestants: Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopal/Anglican, and Methodist
—Michael E. McCullough, Andrew J. Weaver, David B. Larson, and Kimberly R. Aay - Psychotherapy With Evangelical and Fundamentalist Protestants
—Nancy Stiehler Thuston - Psychotherapy With Pentecostal Protestants
—Richard D. Dobbins - Psychotherapy With Latter-Day Saints
—Wendy L. Ulrich, P. Scott Richards, and Allen E. Bergin - Psychotherapy With Seventh-Day Adventists
—Carole A. Rayburn
III. Judaism
- Psychotherapy With Orthodox Jews
—Aaron Rabinowitz - Psychotherapy With Conservative and Reform Jews
—Lisa Miller and Robert J. Lovinger
IV. Islam
- Psychotherapy With Muslims
—Zari Hedayat-Diba
V. Eastern Traditions
- Psychotherapy With Buddhists
—Mark Finn and Jeffrey B. Rubin - Psychotherapy With Hindus
—Anu R. Sharma
VI. Ethnic-Centered Spirituality
- Psychotherapy With Members of African American Churches and Spiritual Traditions
—Donelda A. Cook and Christine Y. Wiley - Psychotherapy With Members of Latino/Latina Religions and Spiritual Traditions
—María Cecilia Zea, Michael A. Mason, and Alejandro Murguía - Psychotherapy With Members of Asian American Churches and Spiritual Traditions
—Siang-Yang Tan and Natalie J. Dong - Psychotherapy With Native Americans: A View Into the Role of Religion and Spirituality
—Alex Trujillo
VII. Afterword
- Religious Diversity and Psychotherapy: Conclusions, Recommendations, and Future Directions
—P. Scott Richards and Allen E. Bergin
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
Book Review
Handbook of Psychotherapy and Religious Diversity summarizes the core beliefs of Catholics; Protestants; Evangelicals; LDS; Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews; Seventh-day Adventists; Muslims; Buddhists and Hindus, as well as those of the "ethnic-centered spirituality" of blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans and American Indians. It goes a big step further, with authors explaining the unique challenges among adherents within each belief system and suggesting methods for determining the role that faith plays in a person's life.
—Deseret News, May 20, 2000
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