Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction
Jamie D. Aten and Mark M. Leach
Chapter 1: A Primer on Spirituality and Mental Health
Jamie D. Aten and Mark M. Leach
Chapter 2: Ethical Concerns Around Spirituality and Religion in Clinical Practice
William L. Hathaway and Jennifer S. Ripley
Chapter 3: Therapist Self-Awareness of Spirituality
Marsha I. Wiggins
Chapter 4: Noting the Importance of Spirituality During the Clinical Intake
Mark M. Leach, Jamie D. Aten, Nathaniel G. Wade, and Barbara Couden Hernandez
Chapter 5: Clinical Assessment of Clients' Spirituality
Kenneth I. Pargament and Elizabeth J. Krumrei
Chapter 6: Including Spirituality in Case Conceptualizations: A Meaning-Systems Approach
Crystal L. Park and Jeanne M. Slattery
Chapter 7: Integrating Spirituality With Clinical Practice Through Treatment Planning
Brian J. Zinnbauer and John J. Barrett
Chapter 8: How Spirituality Can Affect the Therapeutic Alliance
J. Scott Young, Sondra Dowdle, and Lucy Flowers
Chapter 9: Implementing Treatments That Incorporate Clients' Spirituality
Lewis Z. Schlosser and David A. Safran
Chapter 10: Spirituality in Therapy Termination
Jamie D. Aten, Michael W. Mangis, Clark Campbell, Brent T. Tucker, Ahmed Nezar Kobeisy, and Randall Halberda
Chapter 11: Case Study Showing Inclusion of Spirituality in the Therapeutic Process
Kari A. O'Grady and P. Scott Richards
Chapter 12: Training Therapists to Address Spiritual Concerns in Clinical Practice and Research
Everett L. Worthington Jr., Steven J. Sandage, Don E. Davis, Joshua N. Hook, Andrea J. Miller, M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall, and Todd W. Hall
Index
About the Editors

About the Author

Jamie D. Aten, PhD, is an assistant professor of counseling psychology and assistant director of health and mental health research for the Katrina Research Center at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. He has published numerous research articles on religion and spirituality and is a coeditor of a forthcoming book on culture and clinical practice. His current research on the role of the African American church in overcoming rural mental health disparities and mental health disparities among disaster victims is being supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Pew Charitable Trusts and Rand Gulf States Policy Institute, and Red Cross/MidSouth Foundation. He also serves as the representative to the Committee on Early Career Psychologists for Division 36 (Psychology of Religion) of the American Psychological Association and as the rural health coordinator for the Mississippi Psychological Association.
 
Mark M. Leach, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. He has published numerous articles with diversity issues as their foundation, has authored or coedited three books, and has two coedited books forthcoming. He is an associate editor of the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality® of the American Psychological Association Division 36 (Psychology of Religion) and is on the editorial boards of other journals. His primary research interests are in the areas of culture and forgiveness, international counseling issues, spirituality and religion, comparative ethics, and suicide.