Shared Grace

Shared Grace provides a framework within which mental health professionals and clergy can work together to provide people in need with appropriate psychological services and spiritual interventions. Shared Grace will help therapists and clergy alike and enable each to obtain the support, education, and training to make interdisciplinary collaboration successful. Breaking down the walls between psychology and religion, this guide offers you proven and tried methods and models from the authors' collaborative work with a woman who suffered from dissociative identity disorder due to child abuse. Furthermore, Shared Grace discusses transforming damaged and dysfunctional images of God, the establishment of support systems from within the religious community, the use of guided imagery, and the creation of healthy rituals and ceremonies. Comprehensive and intelligent, this vital book will help you incorporate a spiritual dimension to your sessions and give patients successful and effective services.