Spirituality and Family Therapy

Martin John Erickson, Thomas Carlson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780789019615
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317787723
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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 are unsure how to integrate spiritual issues into their practice and detailed case studies that reveal how and why faith is a vital part of many clients' lives. Along with these features, you'll also find two unique conversational-style chapters where various authors explore their own beliefs and discuss the role of religion in their lives and careers. Spirituality and Family Therapy will help you understand your own spirituality, and use it as an important resource in your relationships with clients.

In Spirituality and Family Therapy you'll learn about:

• the links between faith, fathering, and family therapy
• clinical applications for Christian mediation
• making altars as a way to help your clients come to terms with loss
• the ways spirituality helps parents cope with the death of a child
• ways to integrate the spirituality of the therapist into your work
• the value of faith in services for Alzheimer's caregivers
• integration of religion, gender, and spirituality in clinical practice

Index

Abbott, D. A., 140, 141

Ablin, A. R., 57

Adams, N., 32, 33, 34, 110, 113

Agger, B., 238

Alexander, C. N., 292

Allen, J., 153

Allport, G. W., 300

Altar-making

artist’s perspective of, 345–346

case example of therapy and, 344–345

clinical uses for, 340–344

in family therapy, 335–340

narrative therapy and, 335

in therapy, 334

Altars, 331. See also Latinos

definitions of, 332

universality of making, 332–333

Alzheimer’s Disease, 88

caregivers for, 88–89

impact of, 89–90

Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association, Inc., 88

Amato, P., 265

Anderson, D. A., 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 47, 112, 147, 148, 197, 238, 242, 248, 292

Anderson, H., 178, 241, 245, 248, 256, 293, 294–296, 299, 301

Anderson C., 153

Anxiety, 309–310

Bible’s teaching on, 315–317

intervention model for, 322–326

research on spiritually active persons and, 311

spiritual resources for treating, 320–322

trust and, 317–319

Aponte, H. J., 14, 19, 20, 31, 32, 36, 37, 90, 197, 200

Apud, Jose, 186

Auerbach, C. F., 260

August, J., 55, 56, 57, 59, 74, 77

Bach-Peterson, J., 88

Bair, S., 222

Ball, J., 153, 154

Bardill, D. R., 15

Barnes, R. F., 88

Barry, W. A., 297

Bartowski, J. P., 272

Bateson, G., 31, 32, 33, 39, 41, 42, 43, 47

Bava, S., 239–257

Becker, C., 191

Becker, H....

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About The Editors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Spirituality and Theory
• Spirituality Research
• Spirituality and Ethics
• Spirituality and MFT Training
• Spiritual Approaches to Working with Specific Populations
• Index