Religion and the clinical practice of psychology

Hardcover, xvi, 617 pp. including bibliography and indexes Contents: Introduction: Foundation for the consideration of religion in the clinical practice of psychology / Edward P. Shafranske Part 1. Religion and psychology: a conceptual, cultural, and historical context. 1. Religion in America: the demographics of belief and affiliation / Dean R. Hoge 2. The psychology of religion: an overview / David M. Wulff 3. Historical perspective: religion and clinical psychology in America / Hendrika Vande Kemp 4. A constructive relationship for religion with the science and profession of psychology: perhaps the boldest model yet / Stanton L. Jones 5. Religious beliefs, affiliations, and practices of clinical psychologists / Edward P. Shafranske Part 2. Religion, mental health, and clinical practice. 6. Pluralism and Oneness in religious experience: William James, faith-development theory, and clinical practice / James W. Fowler 7. Religious commitment, mental health, and prosocial behavior: a review of the empirical literature / John Gartner 8. Religious methods of coping: resources for the conservation and transformation of significance / Kenneth I. Pargament. 9. The pathology of beliefs and the beliefs of pathology / W.W. Meissner 10. Cults and charismatic group psychology / Marc Galanter 11. Values in psychotherapy / Allen E. Bergin, I. Reed Payne, P. Scott Richards 12. Considering the religious dimension in assessment and treatment / Robert J. Lovinger 13. Religion in clinical practice: implicit and explicit integration / Siang-Yang Tan Part 3. Psychotherapy with religiously committed persons. 14. Cognitive-behavioral therapy and the religious person / L. Rebecca Propst 15. Psychoanalytic treatment and the religious person / Ana-Maria Rizzuto 16. Existential-humanistic psychotherapy and the religious person / Alvin R. Mahrer 17. Switching tracks: parallel paradigms in psychology and religion / John R. Van Eenwyk 18. Transpersonal psychology and the religious person / Frances Vaughan, Bryan Wittine, and Roger Walsh 19. Marital and family therapy with religious persons / Len Sperry and Paul Giblin 20. The 12-step program / Ronald E. Hopson Part 4. Afterword 21. Religion and the clinical practice of psychology: a case for inclusion / Edward P. Shafranske and H. Newton Malony.