A Christian Psychology Approach to Counselor Wellness: Instilling and Improving Counselor Wellness in Clinical Supervision
Professional counselors face a number of difficulties in their work that can lead to compassion fatigue, burnout, and/or secondhand traumatization. Contemporary research into counselor wellness has demonstrated that many counselors are not practicing at a level of wellness that is required of them p...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Journal of psychology and christianity
Year: 2022, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 265-277 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church work
/ Wellness
/ Supervision
/ Interdisciplinary research
/ Philosophy
/ Theology
/ Psychologist
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology RG Pastoral care VA Philosophy ZD Psychology |
| Summary: | Professional counselors face a number of difficulties in their work that can lead to compassion fatigue, burnout, and/or secondhand traumatization. Contemporary research into counselor wellness has demonstrated that many counselors are not practicing at a level of wellness that is required of them per the American Counseling Association (ACA) (2014) code of ethics. The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) standards also call for counselor education programs to equip their counselors-in-training with the tools needed to maintain wellness in the program and after graduation. Research into counselor education programs has demonstrated that they are not always succeeding in this. Several researchers have noted this deficit in wellness within the counseling profession and have developed models or approaches to supervision that place more emphasis on wellness. However, many of these approaches to wellness do not engage the discussion of human flourishing more broadly and miss the full picture of what flourishing entails qua being human and qua being a counselor. This presentation proposes a Christian psychology vision of what wellness entails for Christian counselors that engages and incorporates the disciplines of philosophy, Christian theology, and positive psychology into the supervision process of students and provisionally licensed counselors to lay foundations for flourishing in clinical practice. |
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| ISSN: | 0733-4273 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and christianity
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