Tapping Deeper Roots: Integrating the Spiritual Dimension into Professional Practice with Lesbian and Gay Clients

Endeavors to answer how psychotherapists and counselors can help lesbian and gay clients tap into their own spiritual depths and how therapists and counselors can make their own spiritual life available as a healing resource for clients. Sketches the history of gays and lesbians and notes their cont...

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Main Author: McNeill, John J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1994
In: The Journal of pastoral care
Year: 1994, Volume: 48, Issue: 4, Pages: 313-324
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Endeavors to answer how psychotherapists and counselors can help lesbian and gay clients tap into their own spiritual depths and how therapists and counselors can make their own spiritual life available as a healing resource for clients. Sketches the history of gays and lesbians and notes their contributions in the area of spiritual leadership. Identifies some of the difficult theological and ecclesiological forces which frequently stand in the way of authentic expressions of gay and lesbian growth in spiritual matters, and indicates ways in which the spiritual life of a counselor may represent a key factor in allowing the spirit to grow in the lives of gay and lesbians persons.
Contains:Enthalten in: The Journal of pastoral care
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/002234099404800402