{"title":"Reclaiming faith identity: through progressive journaling","authors":"J. D. Cook, Thomas L. Cook","doi":"10.1080/19349637.2022.2031372","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In our multicultural world, the counselor must provide a safe environment within which the client’s recognition of healthy and unhealthy beliefs are facilitated. Communications between counselor and client depend critically on the faith narrative each has developed over time from the brain’s natural inclination to organize and interpret accumulated personal experience. It is crucial for the culturally competent counselor to have a thorough ownership of his or her own faith narrative. This article describes the author’s use of journaling to provide a framework for self-analysis within his personal faith narrative in an attempt to grow in cultural awareness and humility.","PeriodicalId":51916,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","volume":"47 1","pages":"19 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2022.2031372","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT In our multicultural world, the counselor must provide a safe environment within which the client’s recognition of healthy and unhealthy beliefs are facilitated. Communications between counselor and client depend critically on the faith narrative each has developed over time from the brain’s natural inclination to organize and interpret accumulated personal experience. It is crucial for the culturally competent counselor to have a thorough ownership of his or her own faith narrative. This article describes the author’s use of journaling to provide a framework for self-analysis within his personal faith narrative in an attempt to grow in cultural awareness and humility.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health is an interdisciplinary professional journal (retiled from American Journal of Pastoral Counseling to better reflect its broader scope) that is devoted to the scholarly study of spirituality as a resource for counseling and psychotherapeutic disciplines. This peer-reviewed quarterly journal seeks to enhance the understanding of spirituality as a core component of human well-being in individual, relational, and communal life. Leading authorities provide insights into research and effective therapy in an interdisciplinary dialog that crosses the disciplines of psychology, spirituality, theology, sociology, cultural analysis, and other fields.