TRANSPERSONAL STRENGTHS AND RELIGION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

• Focus on one faith tradition, or, if not using a specific tradition, specify and describe the transpersonal strength(s).
• Apply the tenets of the tradition (as consistently taught, but also personally understood) to the healing of either depression, anxiety, relationship dysfunction or trauma.
• Explain both how the tradition would formulate the pathology and what interventions it proposes.
• Explain how the stage of one’s faith development affects its therapeutic efficacy.
• Use at least three sources (can include the course texts) to strengthen your approach. Use of field studies will be worth bonus points.
• Explain how a therapist would ethically help a client access and apply their transpersonal strengths.

Update – Here is how you might conceive of this paper in terms of human diversity:How can (specific) transpersonal strengths help a client to address the long-term, repetitive trauma of oppression? How can a therapist’s (specific) transpersonal strengths, and the further development of those strengths, help the therapist build more effective therapeutic alliances with clients and inform therapeutic interventions (under any theory of counseling).