Enhancing training in spiritual and religious competencies in mental health graduate education: Evaluation of an integrated curricular approach.

ABSTRACT: Despite practice guidelines for multiculturally competent care, including spiritual/religious diversity, most mental health graduate training programs do not formally address spiritual/religious competencies. Thus, we enhanced the Spiritual Competency Training in Mental Health (SCT-MH) course curriculum to train graduate students in foundational attitudes, knowledge, and skills for addressing clients' spirituality and/or religion (S/R). The hybrid (online and in-person) SCT-MH course curriculum was integrated into existing required graduate clinical courses (replacing 15% of a course's curriculum) and taught to 309 students by 20 instructors in 20 different graduate training programs across counseling, psychology, and social work disciplines. Using a multiple baseline waitlist control desi

SUBMITTER: Pearce MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11419373 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature