{"product_id":"spiritual-care-and-therapy-integrative-perspectives-9780889204348","title":"Spiritual Care and Therapy: Integrative Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e The current interest in spirituality has intensified the quest to incorporate spirituality in non-sectarian therapy. \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Care and Therapy\u003c\/i\u003e is a hands-on, up-to-date clinical guide that addresses this concern. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Peter VanKatwyk explores spiritual care, from pastoral traditions to essential psychotherapies, in individual, couple, and family therapy, offering integrative perspectives. Therapy vignettes from multiple perspectives are included, as well as a wealth of diagrams and maps. His unique perspective of different helping relationships is an approach that celebrates diversity and promotes the flexibility of multiple uses of self and their respective styles of care. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Part 1 describes common and pluralistic meanings of spirituality, locating spiritual care both in the ordinary experience of daily life and in professional practice. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Part 2 focuses on the essentials of caring, posed in the three questions of what to know (therapy models), what to say (communication roles) and what to be (uses of self). These three core areas converge in the book's central framework of the helping style inventory (helping relationships). \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Part 3 maps the contexts of care: the person situated in family and society, moving through time in rites of passage that congest when impacted by crisis and loss. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Finally, Part 4 presents the actual process of clinical education, first through a model of supervision and second, through a research methodology designed for the study of spirituality and health care. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Perfect as a text in either education or academic programs, this book will be of interest to all helping professionals who value an integrative and holistic approach to spiritual care and therapy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVankatwyk, Peter L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter L. VanKatwyk\u003c\/b\u003e has, in the last 25 years, conducted a therapy practice and directed clinical education programs as a supervisor certified by the Canadian Association of Pastoral Practice and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He has also taught and directed the pastoral counseling program at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Waterloo, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461520068882,"sku":"9780889204348","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f97405ed-a7b5-4235-97e4-589d83542a67.jpg?v=1730069616","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/spiritual-care-and-therapy-integrative-perspectives-9780889204348","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}