SRCP: Spiritual and Religious Competencies Project

The Spiritual and Religious Competencies Project aims to improve mental health care and promote human flourishing by ensuring every mental health professional possesses the basic competencies to attend to their clients’ religious faith or spirituality in clinical practice.

Supported by a $5.1 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the SRCP addressed barriers to equipping mental health professionals with the ability to address religious or spiritual (R/S) dimensions of clients’ lives via:

• Generating methods and tools for defining, studying, and assessing R/S competencies
• Establishing methods to train mental health professionals in R/S competencies
• Synergizing diverse stakeholders with a commitment to promoting R/S competencies
• Fueling momentum for systemic and cultural changes in ways R/S are addressed in mental health care