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Focuses on the inclusion of spiritual issues in the clinical social work process.

 

Part of Advancing Core Competencies Series, a unique series that helps students taking advanced social work courses apply CSWE’s core competencies and practice behaviors examples to specialized fields of practice.

 

Integrating Spirituality in Clinical Social Work Practice: Walking the Labyrinth focuses on the inclusion of spiritual issues in the clinical social work process using the metaphor of the labyrinth to discuss the implementation of spiritual issues in the various phases of the treatment process – engagement, assessment, intervention, endings, and more.

 

It makes the clear distinction between the concepts of “spirituality” and “religion” and addresses sensitive issues such as guilt, shame, forgiveness, death & dying, trauma, gender and social justice.  

 

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers should be able to:

• Understand how the labyrinth’s cyclical nature resembles the therapeutic process and reminds us that our work with clients often includes moving towards and moving away before we achieve the goal
• Acknowledge the importance of the sacred (therapeutic) relationship between therapist and client
• Learn the importance of understanding our countertransference reactions, exploring our own beliefs and biases and reflecting on how they may affect our work.
• Distinguish between the concepts of “spirituality” and “religion”

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Maddy Cunningham, DSW is an Associate Professor at Fordham University, Graduate School of Social Service in New York City. She received both her MSW and DSW from Adelphi University School of Social Work. Dr. Cunningham teaches clinical practice and spirituality courses. Her teaching is informed by both the centrality of the therapeutic relationship and the importance of being mindful and truly present in the practice encounter. Dr. Cunningham views spirituality as a broad, inclusive concept. Since her undergraduate courses, she has grappled with how one includes the spiritual realm in direct practice, especially as individuals encounter the existential crises of life. While raised in a traditional Irish Catholic family, her interest in spirituality emerged from her direct practice with traumatized clients and how they find meaning in the face of their suffering.

 

Dr. Cunningham provides professional training for clinicians, human service workers, clergy, and police personnel. She has numerous publications on vicarious trauma and spirituality. This is her first book. Dr. Cunningham lives with her best friend and loving husband Hugh Cunningham and is blest to be surrounded by her children, children-in-law and her four precious grandsons.