Religion and spirituality in counselor training : : perceived importance of counselor trainees

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Label

Religion and spirituality in counselor training : : perceived importance of counselor trainees

Title remainder

perceived importance of counselor trainees

Statement of responsibility

by Elizabeth Anne Olson

Creator

• Olson, Elizabeth Anne, 1978-

Contributor

• Berkel, LaVerne A.

Thesis advisor

• Berkel, LaVerne A.

Subject

• Counselors -- Religious life
• Counselors -- Training of
• Dissertation -- University of Missouri--Kansas City -- Counseling psychology
• Dissertation -- University of Missouri--Kansas City -- Education
• Counseling -- Religious aspects
• Psychology and religion
• Electronic dissertations

Genre

• Electronic dissertations

Language

eng

Summary

There has been a call for further integration of religion and spirituality into counselor training due to a large percentage of the American population reporting that religion and spirituality are important factors in their lives. Yet this integration seems to rarely occur. Although issues of religion and spirituality are generally seen to be at least somewhat important in clinical practice, training programs have still been slow to integrate these issues into curriculum, practicum training, supervision and research. Attention had been directed toward understanding the integration of, or hesitation to integrate, religion and spirituality into counselor training, but this focus has most often been from the perspective of clinicians or educators, and rarely from the perspective of the counselor trainee. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to explore the counseling psychology student's perspective on integrating religion and spirituality in training, looking specifically at perceived importance of religion and spirituality in training. Factors influencing the perceived levels of importance of students are explored, including religious affiliation, program openness, openness, quest orientation to religion, cognitive orientation toward spirituality and multicultural competence. Results indicated that, for doctoral counseling students, program and personal variables explain a significant portion of the variance in perceived importance of integrating religion and spirituality into counselor training, with quest orientation to religion and cognitive orientation toward spirituality being significant predictors while controlling for organized and non-organized religious activity. Exploratory analyses were also conducted to assess students' training experiences, work with clients, interest in integrating religion and spirituality into training and thoughts about how to integrate religion and spirituality into training. Findings are described in detail and implications and recommendations for future training are discussed

Additional physical form

Online version of the print edition.

Cataloging source

UMK

Degree

Ph.D.

Dissertation year

2007.

Form designation

[electronic resource]

Granting institution

School of Education. University of Missouri--Kansas City

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography
• theses