Integrating Spirituality into Multicultural Counseling

Abstract

This volume builds a bridge between spiritual values and multicultural learning. In a practical and informative manner, the authors explore spirituality from multicultural perspectives, and they help professional integrate multicultural views and spirituality when providing therapy, counseling, social work, and health-related services. Chapter topics include understanding multicultural worldviews and developmental models of the spiritual journey, integrating spiritual and multicultural competencies, clarifying healthy and unhealthy expressions of spirituality, exploring spiritual issues expressed through pain and loss as well as needs for power and creativity, understanding counseling process issues including ethical concerns, and integrating spiritual interventions into one's own counseling style. This book will be useful for students, educators, and mental health professionals who seek to integrate multicultural issues, counseling, and spirituality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) (from the cover)