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This is a very helpful book for mental health professionals providing therapy, counselling and health and social care services, as it explores and integrates multicultural and spiritual perspectives in a practical and informative manner. It highlights the fact that spiritual dimension has an enormous relevance to multicultural counselling' - Transcultural Psychiatry This book challenges practitioners with the proposal that integrating spiritual values in multicultural counselling and exploring spirituality from multicultural perspectives are synergistic and mutually reciprocal processes. Chapter topics include: developmental models of the spiritual journey; integrating spiritual and mul
The Spiritual Journey: Worldviews
The Spiritual Journey: Worldviews
As rivers have their source in some far off fountain, so the human spirit has its source. To find this fountain of spirit is to learn the secret of heaven and earth.
—Lao-tzu, 6th century BC Chinese philosopher
Need for Conceptual Framework
In this chapter we explore the concept of the spiritual journey and the various ways in which it is viewed both psychologically and culturally. According to the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Issues in Counseling (ASERVIC) guidelines, counselors must be able to “explain one or two models of human religious, spiritual or transpersonal development across the lifespan” (“Summit Results,” 1995). We would like to recommend that counselors be able to articulate the cultural context of spiritual experiences as ...
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