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What stands out to you as you read the articles? What are your views on introducing religious/spiritual beliefs or practices to the counseling relationship? Why?
Reply: Go to the website for the
Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC)
and read the publication, "Competencies for Addressing Spiritual and Religious Issues in Counseling." What stands out to you? How might you bring your religious beliefs and values to the counseling relationship without imposing them? Compare your thoughts with at least 1 of your classmates.
I believe in you should only be practicing what you know and not just as a novice. If someone is seeking a
counseling professional with similar spiritual beliefs it would be considered helpful to the client if the counseling professional shared their spiritual beliefs and practices to the counseling relationship. If an individual is not requesting spiritual beliefs or practices it could do more harm in having the professional share their beliefs. I think as a professional if you know your client and you know and understand their beliefs and you can help integrate that into a part of their healing; it could only benefit them even if you do
not practice the same beliefs. That is why I think if you are going to surround yourself among a diverse population you need to inform yourself of the various beliefs that other people share. Even in the book it states that if we do no inform ourselves we then “perpetuate forms of injustice and institutional racism” (Corey, 2019, p. 114).
It is surprising to me that in the article Glen et al. (2008) stated that students prefer to have spiritual beliefs brought into a counseling process. It was surprising because most students are still trying to figure out who they are and most students at a young age are imitating their parents’ beliefs and have yet questioned it or have looked for anything that is different. Like I stated earlier about diverse population Glen et al. (2008) stated that the gap between majority and minority is decreasing and professionals are counseling students and their families from diverse beliefs and values and need to have “an awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the counseling needs of spiritually diverse students” (Glen et al., 2008,
p. 213). When talking about prayer it is important to be aware of who it can benefit and who it can harm during a counseling process. It is extremely important to not push our own values to our client and act on our own countertransference. Just like in the other article, this article states that the counseling professional needs
to be sensitive and competent to other individual’s practices, traditions, and beliefs (Weld & Erikson, 2007). Reference
Corey, G., Corey, M. S., Corey, C. (20180101). Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions, 10th Edition [VitalSource Bookshelf version]. Retrieved from vbk://9781337671378
Lambie, G. W., Davis, K. M., & Miller, G. (2008). Spirituality: Implications for professional school counselors' ethical practice. Counseling and Values, 52(3), 211–223.
Weld, C., & Eriksen, K. (2007). The ethics of prayer in counseling. Counseling and Values, 51(2), 125–138.
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