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Christian Counseling Psychologists’ Practice Experiences in Integrating Spirituality into Counseling
    Author:Ping-Hwa Chen, Shing-Ru Chan, Lan-Hsin Fan, Michael J. Mullahy
Research Article

 Counseling psychologists have traditionally avoided touching on spiritual issues in their counseling work. Counselors fear losing their neutrality and imposing theirreligious valueson clients if they bring spiritual issues into counseling. However, the increasing emphasis on spirituality in psychology and counseling is opening new perspectives for practicingcounselors. The present study explored Taiwanese Christian counseling psychologists’ experiences ofintegrating spirituality into their counseling practice. Five Christian counseling psychologists participated in semi-structured interviews.Data from the interviews was analyzed using the thematic analysis method. Eight themes were identified:identifying as both Christians and counselors, possessing Christian-based spiritual perspectives, being influenced by spirituality in counseling work, providing spiritual assessment and intervention in counseling, affirming the benefit of integrating spirituality into counseling, valuing the meaningfulness of conducting spiritual work in counseling, loosening restrictionson discussing spirituality in counseling, and walking the path of integrating spirituality and counseling. The results were discussed, and recommendations for further research were proposed.



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