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- Title
Spiritual Diversity: Multifaith Perspectives in Family Therapy.
- Authors
WALSH, FROMA
- Abstract
This paper addresses the growing diversity and complexity of spirituality in society and within families. This requires a broadly inclusive, multifaith approach in clinical training and practice. Increasingly, individuals, couples, and families seek, combine, and reshape spiritual beliefs and practices—within and among faiths and outside organized religion—to fit their lives and relationships. With rising faith conversion and interfaith marriages, the paper examines challenges in multifaith families, particularly with marriage, childrearing, and the death of a loved one. Clinical guidelines, cautions, and case examples are offered to explore the role and significance of spiritual beliefs and practices in couple and family relationships; to identify spiritual sources of distress and relational conflict; and to draw potential spiritual resources for healing, well-being, and resilience, fitting client values and preferences.
- Subjects
SPIRITUALITY; FAMILY psychotherapy; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; INTERPERSONAL relations; CHILD rearing; MARRIAGE; DEATH
- Publication
Family Process, 2010, Vol 49, Issue 3, p330
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01326.x