Spiritual Issues in Counseling

Catalog description

This course will explore an important and often neglected aspect of counseling; the client’s spiritual/religious beliefs. Topics to be covered include spiritual explanations for suffering: counseling perspectives of the major spiritual/religious traditions; special needs and problems of religious client; the counselors own belief system; and, the clinical use of the client’s belief. The course will employ didactic lecture, group discussion and exercises, case study presentations, and role-plays of counseling sessions.