Counseling and the Resolution of Religious and Spiritual Struggles: A Common Factors Approach (Advances in Mental Health Research)

This book delves into the critical question of how counseling can help individuals navigate and resolve these struggles.It prioritizes the true experts in this domain-the strugglers themselves-and provides an in-depth examination of their experiences. Using the rich, methodological approach of hermeneutic phenomenology, the author collaborates with participants to explore their lived experiences of the therapeutic relationship and the therapist’s way-of-being.By incorporating a common factors lens, the book offers insights into how therapists can engage with clients in a way that fosters an alliance capable of addressing religious and spiritual (r/s) struggles and promoting growth.The book provides readers with a deep understanding of the r/s struggle resolution process, identifies how these findings advance the field, and encourages practitioners to adopt the common factors meta-model to work competently in this area.It also examines how counseling can help individuals resolve r/s str