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Spiritual Care in Psychological Suffering: How a Research
Collaboration Informs Integrative Practice highlights spiritually
integrative research and demonstrates the evolution of a national
partnership of psychologists and chaplains collaborating for
optimal results. Interdisciplinary teams are the gold standard in
spiritual care provision, and this book orients the purpose and
promise of such collaboration for research and practice. Recent
work in the psychology of religion and spirituality has emphasized
the importance of relational spirituality, distinctions between
harmful and helpful effects of religion and spirituality on mental
health, and the relevance of spiritual struggles for psychological
well-being; however, these dimensions have not been examined in the
context of a collaborative and culturally diverse partnership, nor
have they been comprehensively examined in psychologically
distressed populations. This volume seeks to make an important
contribution to the psychology of religion by providing an in-depth
look at translating integrative research into integrative practice
in a population that has experienced significant psychological
suffering. It is hoped that insights from this volume will
contribute the following: foster more rewarding chaplain-researcher
partnerships; offer a deeper understanding of the intersections
among spiritual experience, virtues, and psychological distress;
and demonstrate approaches for inquiring about individuals'
spiritual lives in the midst of psychological suffering.
Trauma represents a spiritual or religious violation for many
people. Survivors attempt to make sense out of painful events,
incorporating that meaning into their current worldview in either a
harmful or a more helpful way. This volume helps mental health
practitioners—many of whom are less religious than their
clients—understand the important relationship between trauma and
spirituality, and how to best help survivors create meaning out of
their experiences. Drawing on relevant theories and research, the
authors present a new conceptual framework, the Reciprocal
Meaning-Making Model, demonstrating how it can guide both
assessment and treatment. Through the use of case material, the
authors examine a range of spiritual views, traumas, and
posttraumatic reactions that are reflective of the population as a
whole rather than targeting only specific religions or cultural
perspectives. Given the lack of scientific literature on the topic,
this book fills an important gap, and will appeal to clinicians and
researchers alike.
This edited volume summarizes promising, evidence-based strategies
clinicians can implement in their work with morally injured
persons. Many service members transitioning to civilian life
struggle with mental health issues. For some, these mental health
issues revolve around moral injury - acts or experiences that
contradict the individual's fundamental beliefs about the world, or
how it ought to be. The book's expert contributors are researchers
and clinicians who are leading efforts to define and assess moral
injury, identify its potential mechanisms and outcomes, and develop
and disseminate treatments to promote recovery and healing from
morally injurious events Through the use of case examples, authors
discuss promising theoretical models for conceptualizing moral
injury, prominent conceptual and clinical concerns for addressing
such injuries in clinical practice, and existing and novel
intervention approaches.
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