SPIRITUALITY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE PART B

Course overview

It's only recently in the history of humankind that healing was not done through some kind of spiritual or religious practice. Notions and images from the religious upbringing of our childhoods don't go away. They remain as powerful parts of our selves and our psyches. We cover the inclusion of crisis of faith and spiritual emergencies in the DSM. Then we will begin our exploration of how spirituality plays out in the work of many dedicated practitioners. David Lukoff, Ph.D. "DSM and Spiritual Emergencies " explains the various syndromes and symptoms of spiritual emergencies and the importance of differential diagnosis between psychotic episodes and spiritual crisis. Constance Goldberg, LCSW "Ways of Listening to Spiritual Content" describes and explains three approaches to how we listen to religious material in the clinical setting.