To determine if counselors integrate clinical behaviors for addressing religious/spiritual issues in counseling consistent with their ratings of the importance of such behaviors, the authors conducted a national survey of American Counseling Association (ACA) members. Seventy-eight ACA members rated the importance of and frequency with which they engaged in a set of 30 clinical behaviors that were identified in the existing literature as addressing religious/spiritual issues within counseling. Results indicated possible disparities between importance and frequency ratings. Potential barriers to counselors' utilization of religious and spiritually directed clinical behaviors were identified. W ithin the counseling field, the integration of religion and spirituality into counseling has garnered more attention over the last 15-20 years. In the 1990s, the Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC, n.d.; see also Miller, 1999) developed competencies to guide practice in this area, and recently these competencies have been revised to reflect factor analytic investigation of their validity (Cashwell & Watts, 2010). These competencies address four areas of counselor competence: (a) knowledge pertaining to spiritual phenomena, (b) self-awareness related to spiritual views, (c) understanding of clients' spiritual outlook, and (d) interventions related to spirituality (Young,
The authors explored whether supervisor and supervisee self-ratings of mindfulness (N = 72 supervision pairs) predicted perceptions of the supervisory relationship and session dynamics. Only supervisor self-ratings of mindfulness predicted their own ratings of the supervisory relationship and session dynamics.
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