Department
Counseling and Human Services
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Date of Award
4-22-2022
Format
Degree Level
Ph.D.
LCSH subject
Counselors -- Training of; Counselors -- Supervision of; Psychotherapy -- Religious aspects; Psychology and religion; Psychotherapist and patient; Spirituality; Psychotherapy -- Methods
ISBN
9798834049500
Medium
Manuscript
Proquest Document ID
2692655004
Identifier
1371456771 (OCLC)
School/University
St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Tex.)
Size or duration
xv, 441 pages
Copyright date
2022
Document Type
Dissertation
First Advisor
Comstock-Benzick, Dana
Second Advisor
Harper, Melanie
Third Advisor
Vasquez, Priscilla-Reyna
Abstract
Developing religious and spiritual competencies is paramount in the training of counselors to become effective in addressing clients’ religious and spiritual issues in counseling. Clinical supervision in practicum and internship courses is key to the development of these competencies, but questions as to how best they might be infused in counselor training remained. The purpose of the study was to create an explanatory theory of the process of the development of religious and spiritual competencies in clinical supervision. Utilizing grounded theory, experts in the field of supervision and spirituality were interviewed. The ways paradigm was used as a sensitizing concept that aided in organizing interview data that had implications for agency, knowledge, and intervention. Key findings showed that the integration of religion and spirituality in supervision demands critical self-awareness, critical reflexivity, transparency, communication, a process of constant evaluation, self-presence, advocacy and patronage.
Keywords: religion, spirituality, religious competencies, spiritual competencies, counselor
education, clinical supervision, constructivist grounded theory
Recommended Citation
Nnadozie, Emmanuel Javert, "A constructivist grounded theory of spiritual competencies development in counseling supervision" (2022). Dissertations. 57.
https://commons.stmarytx.edu/dissertations/57
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