The purpose of this chapter is to describe a rationale and approach for assessing religion
and spirituality in trauma psychotherapy. We begin by discussing why the assessment of the …

Trauma survivors often face difficult spiritual challenges as they attempt to reconcile the
experience of trauma with their spiritual/religious beliefs. Spirituality has been found to be …

Traumatic events often leave survivors with a number of perplexing and unanswered
questions. Many of these questions that survivors and clinicians grapple with in long-term …

Given the pervasive roles of spirituality and religiousness in many individuals' responses to
traumatic events and in their efforts to cope with them, attending to the ways in which religion …

This paper discusses the relationship between psychological trauma and spirituality: how
each affects the other and the overall impact on treatment. It attempts to understand how …

This chapter addresses some of the spiritual challenges that can result from different types of
trauma to establish a base for therapeutic intervention. Therapists who may lack religious or …

Objective: Studies have identified spirituality to be a helpful resource for dealing with various
types of trauma experiences. This coincides with a heightened focus on the role of …

This chapter explores religious or spiritual beliefs as a central part of the clinical picture, how
therapists can discuss such beliefs with clients, and related interventions in the context of the …

As the foregoing statements illustrate, traumatic experiences affect people not only
psychologically, socially, and physically, but spiritually as well. Spirituality can be woven into …

In this chapter, we discuss psychotherapeutic ways of responding to child abuse survivors'
changes in faith after trauma. We begin by highlighting research that relates various forms of …