For more than a century, mainstream psychology has often viewed religion and spirituality with suspicion—sometimes even as obstacles to mental health. Influenced by the legacy of Freud, many clinicians were trained to keep faith at a distance from serious psychological work. But what if that assumption is incomplete? A new podcast titled, Dissent from Freud: … Read more
The Handbook of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies (Richards, Allen, & Judd, 2023) will be available on November 1, 2025, through the continuing education program of the American Psychological Association as part of their “book-based” CE credit offerings. For more information about the Handbook and how to obtain a 20% discount on the CE credit and exam … Read more
P. Scott Richards, Russell S. Jones, and Peter W. Sanders recently published an article in APA’s Psychotherapy journal reporting a study they did that evaluated the effectiveness of a live videoconferencing training program in spiritually integrated psychotherapy offered by ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care and Education (ACPE). They used a quasi-experimental one-group pretest–posttest group … Read more