Discussion: Implementing religion into therapy

Discussion: Implementing religion into therapy

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Discussion: Implementing religion or spirituality into therapy

describe the ethical implications of implementing religion or spirituality into therapy. Consider topics such as:

1. Competence
2. Multiple relationships
3. Imposing religious values in therapy
4. Informed consent

It is important that the paper adresses these specific topics.

Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources as well as the textbook and the APA Code of Ethics with APA formatted in-text citations and references.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

References

Please use as references:  Integrating Spirituality in Marriage and Family Therapy Training,  Establishing the Validity of the Spirituality in Clinical Training Scale: Measuring the Level of Integration of Spirituality and Religion in Family Therapy Training, and  Religion, Spirituality, and Marriage and Family Therapy: A Study of Family Therapists’ Beliefs about the Appropriateness of Addressing Religious and Spiritual Issues in Therapy.

In summary, the therapist uses the basic religious beliefs about human beings, existence and God to help the client to gain a new insight and the meaning of life. Thetherapist should have a structured thinking and systematic planning in the process of treatment.

Christian psychologist William Hathaway, PhD, of Regent University in Virginia, found himself the latest in a long line of therapists to work with a family in crisis over the son’s uncontrolled attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Hathaway asked the family members about their religious beliefs and, finding that they were Jewish and that the boy’s behavior in temple was preventing them from attending services, encouraged them to go back to their religious rituals.

“They had made the decision not to and were tearful about it when asked, especially because none of their mental health providers had considered it before,” says Hathaway. Discussing the ramifications of spirituality in family life broadened the family’s experience in the therapy room and allowed them to address religious issues as a serious component of their well-being, he says. And, he adds, their religious practices might well have strengthened the family’s ability to deal with their son’s ADHD.

“Just being sensitive to a possible role of religion in a client’s life can broaden your evaluation and provide different solutions,” he explains. “Being able to help a person connect with the variable of spirituality in their lives can be a beneficial and important therapeutic accommodation.”

That heightened awareness of spirituality, or even taking it a step further by directly incorporating religion and spirituality–different but not mutually exclusive concepts–into therapeutic practices, is common for some psychologists. Moreover, the expansion of its use is leading to efficacy research, s