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Spiritual Integration: Mental Health—Steady with the Wind, Course 1
~5 Hours
The first part of this series, Spiritual Integration: Mental Health—Steady with the Wind, Course 1, offers five APA-approved CE credits for mental health professionals. Learn to assess, incorporate, and converse about all aspects of clients’ lives.
5 instructors
About This Course
Mental health professionals address all areas of our clients’ lives, especially those connected to their identity. Religion and spirituality often deeply influence identity, but these can be complex topics to address directly with clients. Lack of practitioner expertise, as well as clients’ negative experiences with religion and spirituality, can often stand in the way of holistic healing.
In this series, Spiritual Integration: Mental Health—Steady with the Wind, you will be introduced to a framework for assessing and incorporating spiritual, existential, religious, and theological conversations into your mental health work.
The first part of this series, Spiritual Integration: Mental Health—Steady with the Wind, Course 1, introduces the integration of psychology and spirituality, emphasizing practical tools for application and continued study.
Join lead instructor Dr. Brad Strawn, along with Dr. Alexis Abernethy, Dr. David Wang, & Dr. Christin J. Fort, as they demonstrate ways to navigate through these uncharted waters. This course offers five APA-approved psychology continuing education credits.
Learning Outcomes:
- Distinguish the importance of spirituality, religion, and related matters in holistic human psychological healing and thriving
- Define the four aspects of the SERT (Spiritual, Existential, Religious, Theological) framework
- Specify how SERT history and insights apply to a particular mental health setting
Competency Areas
- The assessment of client religion/spirituality during psychotherapy and counseling
- Collaboration with clergy/spiritual leaders
- Awareness of the impact one’s own religious/spiritual background has on clinical practices, attitudes, perceptions, and assumptions
Produced by Pine Rest, hosted by FULLER Equip.
- Mental Health APA-Accredited Training
- Mental & Emotional Health
Introduction
1. Getting Started
2. Arriving at the Dock: Introducing the Task of Integration
In Theory
3. Learning the Ropes: Spiritual and Religious Competence
4. Harnessing the Wind: Spiritually Integrated Mental Health Professions
5. Naming the Sails: The SERT Framework
6. Forming a Fleet: Partnerships and Continuing Opportunities
Conclusion
7. Continuing the Journey
8. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Alexis D. Abernethy
Chief Academic Officer - Fuller Seminary
Alexis Abernethy has served at Fuller as professor of Clinical Psychology since 1998 and has served on the Brehm Center’s steering committee. She is currently the Chief Academic Officer for Fuller Theological Seminary. Her primary research interest is the intersection between spirituality and health, and she has received grants from California Cancer Research Program, the National Cancer Institute, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, and the Templeton Foundation.
Brad Strawn
Chief of Spiritual Formation and Integration - Fuller Seminary
Brad Strawn is the chief of spiritual formation and integration for the seminary, dean of the chapel, and serves on the Senior Leadership Team. In his many years serving as the chair of integration in the Clinical Psychology Department, Strawn was responsible for strategically integrating theology and psychology into the curriculum of Fuller’s doctoral programs, as well as leading spiritual retreats for students. Prior to joining Fuller he served as vice president for spiritual development and dean of the chapel at Southern Nazarene University.
Christin J. Fort
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology - Fuller Seminary
Christin J. Fort joined Fuller’s faculty in 2022 is an assistant professor of clinical psychology and is an associate editor for the Journal of Psychology and Christianity. Her scholarship, research, teaching, preaching, and clinical practice lie at the intersections of faith, race, emotional health and relational well-being. She is the author of a range of academic articles published in journals such as the Journal of Psychology and Theology, Pastoral Psychology, and the aforementioned Journal of Psychology and Christianity.
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services is a nonprofit organization founded in 1910 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Pine Rest is the third largest non-profit behavioral health provider in the U.S., offering a full continuum of services including psychiatric urgent care, inpatient and partial hospitalization, residential, outpatient and teletherapy services, addiction treatment and recovery, extensive child and adolescent programs, senior care services, as well as specialized assessment and treatment clinics.
David C. Wang
Cliff and Joyce Penner Chair for the Formation of Emotionally Healthy Leaders
David Wang is a licensed psychologist, pastor, editor of the Journal of Psychology and Theology, and serves on the editorial board for the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice. In 2022, he joined Fuller’s faculty as the Cliff and Joyce Penner Chair for the Formation of Emotionally Healthy Leaders. His research interests include trauma and traumatic stress, spiritual formation and spiritual theology (with special interest in the experience of the spiritual desert), and various topics related to multicultural psychology, peace, and justice.
