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A term Faith-depending (literally, according to religious faith) has inherit public apply as an abbreviation of "faith-based initiative", in the context of U.S. President George W. Bush's proposals to give religious charitable social-service groups federal grant money. View Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Faith-depending is typically utilized as a euphemism for the word "religious" therein context, sequentially to keep away from a thorny issues of separation of church and state in the United States.

Creating a Theoretical Space for Spiritual Interventions
Whoolery, Slife, and Mitchell (2002). Full text of a paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Las Vegas, February 2002.

Integrating Spiritual Healing Approaches and Techniques into Psychotherapy
Article by clinical psychologist Robert N. Sollond arguing that empirically validated, spiritually oriented integrative psychotherapeutic forms could emerge within a contemporary, Western framework.

Psychotherapeutic Work with Ex-Cult/Cult Members
Describes three possible steps of working with cult-members and ex-cult-members.

Internet Guided Learning
Online courses and articles by David Lukoff with free content covering DSM-IV religious and spiritual problems, meditation in clinical practice, spirituality and recovery from mental disorders, and finding mental health resources on the Internet.

Religion and the Clinical Practice of Psychology
APA book edited by Edward Shafranske (1996), presenting a comprehensive treatment of religion as a variable in mental health and psychological treatment. Table of contents, review, and ordering information.

The Forgotten Factor
Table of contents and Module 1 of a National Institute for Healthcare Research teaching module looking at the relevance of religious commitment to mental health.

International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality (ICIHS)
Formerly the National Institute for Healthcare Research (NIHR). A multi-disciplinary collaboration with organizations, researchers, educators, clinicians, and patients. Includes research reports, bibliographies, bookstore, and presentations by David Larson and Harold Koenig.

Ethical Issues in Working With Religious Clients
Article by Dan Carpenter summarizing some of the dangers inherent in working with spirituality in psychotherapy, while at the same time challenging Gestalt therapists to take advantage of religious issues in therapy.


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