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This book presents guidance for integrating spiritual interventions into psychotherapy with children and their families. The interventions are appropriate for a range of settings, presenting problems, and client belief systems. Specific chapters address the use of prayer, forgiveness, acceptance, spiritual awareness, sacred texts, and God images in therapy. Illustrative case studies are included, and ethical issues are given special consideration.
This groundbreaking volume will be a valuable resource for therapists who work with spiritually diverse children, adolescents, and their families.

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• Contributors(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• Introduction(p. 3)
• I Foundations and Context(p. 15)
• Chapter 1 Ethics, Religious Issues, and Clinical Child Psychology(p. 17)
• Chapter 2 Assessment of Religious and Spiritual Issues in Clinical Child Psychology(p. 41)
• Chapter 3 Addressing Parental Spirituality as Part of the Problem and Solution in Family Psychotherapy(p. 65)
• Chapter 4 Spiritually Oriented Interventions in Developmental Context(p. 89)
• II Interventions(p. 111)
• Chapter 5 Acceptance(p. 113)
• Chapter 6 Spiritual Awareness Psychotherapy With Children and Adolescents(p. 137)
• Chapter 7 Sacred Texts(p. 155)
• Chapter 8 Prayer(p. 181)
• Chapter 9 God Images(p. 209)
• Chapter 10 Forgiveness Interventions With Children, Adolescents, and Families(p. 233)
• Afterword: Reflections and Future Directions(p. 259)
• Index(p. 267)
• About the Editors(p. 281)

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Walker (director of the Child Trauma Institute and a professor of clinical psychology, Regent Univ.) and Hathaway (psychology and counseling, Regent Univ.) have assembled a valuable collection of work by scholars and practitioners in the fields of psychotherapy, psychology, theology, counseling, and social work. Although geared to psychotherapists, the book will be useful to anyone working with children, adolescents, and families in the counseling environment. Various types of interventions are addressed, using concepts such as prayer, forgiveness, sacred texts, and God images. These spiritual interventions can be incorporated into numerous types of therapy and modified to meet a client's needs, whether he or she is part of a traditional religion or embodies a more general spiritual consciousness. Incorporating various world religions, the volume offers case studies and discusses theory and research findings. Practical advice is given in terms of the APA Ethics Code and its complexities. This is a significant contribution to this little-researched but burgeoning field and a required resource for those interested in psychology of religion and spirituality, counseling, and psychotherapy. Includes chapter-end references. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. J. Bailey Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute

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Donald F. Walker, PhD , directs the Child Trauma Institute, an interdisciplinary research center devoted to understanding the role of religious faith in recovery from childhood abuse, treating survivors of child abuse, and training professionals in addressing spiritual issues in treatment. Dr. Walker also teaches in the PsyD program in clinical psychology at Regent University. As a professor, he teaches courses on clinical child psychology and trauma and supervises students at all levels of the program. He is a member of the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice, and the Division of Trauma Psychology (APA Divisions 36, 37, and 56, respectively). A clinical child psychologist, he maintains a small private practice treating children, teens, and families at Genesis Counseling Center in Hampton, VA.

William L. Hathaway, PhD , currently serves as a dean and professor in the School of Psychology & Counseling at Regent University. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in clinical child psychology with Russell Barkley at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and has worked in both military and civilian child specialty clinics. His doctoral research focused on the psychology of religion and coping, and he has served in various governance roles, including president of the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (APA Division 36). He has published on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, the clinical psychology of religion, spirituality and self-regulation, and relevant clinical training issues.