Eating Recovery Center / Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center San Clemente, California, United States
Session Description: While most treatment providers prioritize their care to address the identified client’s medical, emotional, and mental health, spiritual health is often overlooked. This presentation explores recovery from addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders from a whole person perspective, viewing the client as an integration of body, mind, and spirit. Participants will have the opportunity to examine their own thoughts, feelings, and beliefs around spirituality, while gaining insight into the connection to the sense of self. They will learn how to invite their clients to get curious about connection and spirituality, and how to assist their clients in navigating their journey toward a healthy integrated self. Without a strong sense of self, addictions and other disorders dominate the body and mind by first conquering the spirit. Core competencies consistent with the ACA Code of Ethics will be addressed such as culture and worldview; counselor self-awareness; human and spiritual development; communication; assessment; diagnosis and treatment. Embracing a multicultural approach, spiritual care as a source of client empowerment will be examined and cited as a reliable treatment intervention to not only support and bolster physical, mental, and emotional healing, but also as an important part providing hope in recovery.
Learning Objectives:
After this activity participants should be able to
Describe the integration of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
Identify ways that spiritual care can promote and support recovery from addictions and co-occurring mental health disorders.
Utilize interventions with their clients to assist them in cultivating their spiritual health.