Spiritual Competency in Mental Health Practice
Learn essential skills for integrating spirituality and religion into mental health care, designed for professionals seeking to enhance their clinical practice.
Learn essential skills for integrating spirituality and religion into mental health care, designed for professionals seeking to enhance their clinical practice.
This comprehensive training program equips mental health providers with core competencies for addressing spiritual and religious issues in clinical practice. Taught by field experts, the course covers essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for effective spiritually integrated care. Students learn to assess spiritual needs, distinguish between healthy and problematic religious expressions, and utilize spiritual resources in treatment. The program addresses ethical considerations and practical implementation strategies while meeting professional board requirements for spiritual competency training.
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What you'll learn
Integrate spirituality and religion effectively in clinical practice
Assess spiritual and religious dimensions of client care
Distinguish healthy from problematic religious expressions
Mobilize spiritual resources for therapeutic benefit
Address religious and spiritual problems in treatment
Develop cultural competency in spiritual care
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There are 8 modules in this course
This professional development course bridges the gap in graduate training by providing essential competencies for addressing spiritual and religious issues in mental health care. The program covers core knowledge areas including spiritual assessment, resource mobilization, and problem-solving in clinical practice. Through interactive learning activities and case studies, participants develop practical skills for integrating spirituality into therapy while maintaining professional boundaries and ethical standards. The course emphasizes cultural competency and evidence-based approaches to spiritual integration in mental health treatment.
Introduction and Orientation
Module 1
Understanding Spirituality
Module 2
Guiding Principles for Spiritually Integrated Mental Health Care
Module 3
Questions to Distinguish Spiritual Experiences from Psychopathology
Module 4
Assessing Spirituality in Mental Health Care
Module 5
Mobilizing Spiritual Resources
Module 6
Addressing Spiritual Problems
Module 7
Putting it All Together, Challenges, and Future Directions
Module 8
Fee Structure
Instructors
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Clinical Psychologist and Expert in Spirituality-Integrated Mental Health
Michelle Pearce serves as a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where she directs three significant graduate certificate programs in Aging and Applied Thanatology, Integrative Health and Wellness, and Science Communication. Her academic journey includes a Ph.D. from Yale University, followed by specialized fellowships in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at Duke University Medical Center and Spirituality and Health at the Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health. As a clinical psychologist, she has developed expertise in integrating religious and spiritual elements into psychotherapy, particularly focusing on the relationship between faith, coping mechanisms, and health outcomes. Her scholarly work includes authoring "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Christians with Depression: A Practical, Tool-Based Primer," which demonstrates her unique approach to faith-integrated mental health care. Her clinical expertise spans multiple areas including cognitive behavioral therapy, spiritual and existential issues, mind-body stress reduction techniques, and behavioral medicine. She has made significant contributions to understanding the intersection of mental and physical illness, developing innovative treatment approaches for moral injury and PTSD among veterans, and advancing the field of spiritually integrated psychotherapy. Her work emphasizes practical applications of psychological principles while maintaining sensitivity to spiritual and religious dimensions of healing.
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Pioneer in Psychology of Religion and Spiritual Well-being
Kenneth Pargament stands as a leading authority in the psychology of religion and spirituality, serving as Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Bowling Green State University and Adjunct Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. After earning his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Maryland, he has dedicated over four decades to understanding the intersection of religion, spirituality, and mental health. His scholarly contributions include more than 300 published articles and influential books such as "The Psychology of Religion and Coping" and "Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy." As Editor-in-Chief of the two-volume APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality (2013), he has significantly shaped the field's theoretical foundations. His pioneering work has earned him numerous prestigious honors, including the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association (2009), the Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Professional Chaplains (2015), and the inaugural Outstanding Applied Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Award from the American Psychological Association (2017). Recently recognized as one of the 50 Most Influential Living Psychologists in the World, Pargament continues to advance research in religious and spiritual struggles and the development of spiritually integrated psychotherapy approaches
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