Course
Description
The inclusion in the DSM-IV of
a new diagnostic category called "Religious or
Spiritual Problem" marks a significant breakthrough.
For the first time, there is acknowledgment of
distressing religious and spiritual experiences,
including spiritual emergencies, as nonpathological
problems. Spiritual emergencies are crises during
which the process of growth and change becomes
chaotic and overwhelming. The proposal for this
new diagnostic category came from transpersonal
clinicians concerned with the misdiagnosis and
mistreatment of persons in the midst of spiritual
emergencies.
This course covers the history of pathologizing
theory in the mental health field, the work of
Stan and Christina Grof, John Perry, John Mack,
R.D. Laing, and many other clinical approaches
for working with religious and spiritual problems,
including:
RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS
 Loss
or questioning of faith
Changes
in membership, practices and beliefs
New
Religious Movements and cults
Terminal
and life-threatening illness
SPIRITUAL PROBLEMS
Mystical
experiences
Psychic
experiences
Visionary
experience
Meditation
and spiritual practices
Kundalini
awakening
Near-death
experience
Possession
experience
UFO
encounters
Shamanic
crisis
20 examples in the Case Library
200 web sites in the WWW Library of Religion
and Spirituality
Free guest access is available to all courses.
Available at home or office by computer. Self-paced
so you can take it anytime. Cost is $89 for 8
hours of CE. Types of
CE. Courses are designed by David Lukoff,
PhD.
Course
Objectives
After completing this course,
Participants
will be informed about the background, history,
and rationale for the new DSM-IV diagnostic
category, Religious or Spiritual Problem.
Participants
will be able to describe the main types of spiritual
emergencies
Participants
will be able to make differential diagnoses between
spiritual emergencies and psychopathology.
Participants
will be more culturally competent in treating
spiritual problems than they were prior to taking
the course.
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