ACT for Clergy and Pastoral Counselors

Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Bridge Psychological and Spiritual Care

By: Jason A. Nieuwsma (Editor), Robyn D. Walser (Editor), Steven C. Hayes (Editor), Siang-Yang Tan (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 1 July 2016

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For the first time ever, three pioneers in the field of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) present an edited volume that outlines how the core ACT processes can be applied to religious and spiritual care approaches.

If you are a clergy leader or pastoral counselor, people struggling with difficult situations or life traumas frequently turn to you for guidance. And while you’re passionate about helping, you may be unprepared for counseling people with certain mental health challenges. On the other hand, if you are a psychotherapist, you may need guidance in supporting your client’s religious belief system in therapy. In either case, this book presents a powerful road map to help you provide the best care.

In this book, you’ll find a complete overview of ACT, as well as strategies for integrating ACT and issues related to spirituality. You’ll also learn how the core processes of ACT—such as commitment to change and values-based living—can be seamlessly tied into spiritual and religious counseling, no matter your faith or therapeutic background.

By teaching you how to fuse conceptual psychological and spiritual principles, this book will provide you with the tools needed to enhance your counseling skill set.

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“Physical and emotional suffering bring to light the spiritual in most persons, whether overtly expressed or not. Frontline care of the spiritual needs of the suffering usually falls to spiritual care providers, such as clergy and pastoral counselors, yet does not escape the responsibility of the ‘secular’ therapist. When spiritual care providers meet the patient, the encounter can vary widely across the same faith tradition, not to mention different traditions. In addition, persons suffering are both vulnerable to ill-advised comments by these care providers, and resistant to anyone viewed as tampering with their faith. Nieuwsma, Walser, and Hayes provide a guide into and through this most important yet tenuous relationship—the application of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The central tenants of ACT—openness, centeredness in the present, and engagement through commitment—clarify this confusing experience for those suffering through informed and empathic intervention by the spiritual care provider. ‘If I am suffering, what am I to do with my faith?’ Recognize who you are, recognize where you are at this critical stage in your life, and recognize and engage your core values. This approach is inclusive yet does not devolve into a watered down generic spirituality. Rather it calls upon the inner values and strengths that each faith tradition brings to the healing of the body and the emotions.”
—Dan Blazer MD, MPH, PhD, J.P. Gibbons Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC

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