Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy: The Face-Spirit Model

This book contains a variety of concrete integration approaches for counselors, therapists, helping professionals, instructors, and students that are both practical and flexible. The applications are categorized as either implicit (done within one's self without the client's awareness), or explicit (performed outwardly with the client). The four implicit strategies are grouped under the acronym FACE and the six explicit strategies using the acronym SPIRIT..This textbook is designed to be complete and thorough enough to be used as a stand-alone guide for a class. However, it is short, direct, and easy enough to read to be used as a supplemental textbook addressing spirituality in counseling practice. The book covers the historical relationship between spirituality and counseling, theories of faith development and spirituality, methods for working with clients' diverse beliefs, spiritual assessment techniques, ethical issues, research findings, references, and of course the specific strategies of the FACE-SPIRT model.