A constructivist approach to promoting spiritual competence in counselor trainees: a pilot study
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a two-and-half hour constructivist-oriented training session upon the spirituality and religious competency of 15 master’s level counseling students. The results revealed that the master’s-lever counselors in training demonstrated a signific...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2022
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Journal of spirituality in mental health
Year: 2022, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-52 |
RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion ZD Psychology |
Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B counselor preparation B Religious B Constructivism |
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Summary: | The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a two-and-half hour constructivist-oriented training session upon the spirituality and religious competency of 15 master’s level counseling students. The results revealed that the master’s-lever counselors in training demonstrated a significant overall increase in spiritual and religious competency. Although the intervention resulted in a significant increase in the spiritual and religious competency scores, the participants’ scores at posttest remained below the minimum cutoff score, echoing a consistent finding in the literature that counselor preparation programs are not adequately training students to incorporate spirituality and religion in their work. Students who scored higher on a Personal Spiritual and Religious Practices scale demonstrated greater increases in their spiritual competency. |
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ISSN: | 1934-9645 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of spirituality in mental health
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/19349637.2020.1844607 |