Spirituality in Pastoral Counseling and the Community Helping Professions

Harold G Koenig, Charles J Topper

• Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Spirituality: A Growing Focus for Professional Caregivers What Is Spirituality? Spirituality and Healthy Religion Core Human Spiritual Needs Case Studies Spiritual Needs in Regard to Psychological and Religious Needs Expanding the Language of Spiritual Needs Naming Spiritual Needs Spiritual Well-Being and Health Spiritual Distress and Religious or Spiritual Problems Conclusion Chapter 2. Spiritual Assessment Foundations Spiritual Assessment and the Psychological Helping Professional Spiritual Assessment and the Religious Helping Professional The Basic Process of Spiritual Assessment A Beginning Model of Spiritual Assessment Chapter 3. The Process of Spiritual Care Step One: Address the Focus of Care Needed Step Two: Assess Spiritual Needs Step Three: Determine the Goals of Spiritual Care Step Four: Relate Spiritual Care to the Helpee’s Religion/Beliefs Conclusion Chapter 4. Tools for Spiritual Assessment: Spiritual Care As a Clinical Science The Need for Spiritual Assessment Instruments Stumbling Blocks to Spiritual Assessment Clinical Instruments of Spiritual Assessment Developmental Models of Spiritual Assessment Semistructured Interview and Surveys Developing Your Own Survey Questions Guidelines for the Development of spiritual Assessment Surveys Chapter 5. Basic Aptitudes and Skills of Spiritual Care Ability to Develop a Caring and Healing Helping Relationship Ability to Bring Spiritual Awareness into the Helping Relationship Knowledge and Acceptance of Your Identity As a Spiritual Caregiver Chapter 6. Broader Skills of Spiritual Care Ability to respond to the Ethnic Heritage of Helpees’ Spirituality Ability to Work with Helpees’ Pain, Loss, and grief Ability to Utilize Helpees’ Beliefs Ability to Use Religious Resources Chapter 7. A Community Model of Spiritual Care Ability to Develop a Socially Responsible Focus in Spiritual Care A Community Model of Spiritual Care Spiritual Care Competencies of Professional Organizations Organizational Standards of Spiritual Care References Recommended Reading Index