Equipping mental health professionals with the competencies to address the religious and spiritual dimensions of people’s lives

 
 

The Spiritual and Religious Competencies Project aims to improve mental health care and promote human flourishing by ensuring every mental health professional possesses the basic competencies to attend to their clients’ religious faith or spirituality in clinical practice.

Supported by a $5.1 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the SRCP will address barriers to equipping mental health professionals with the ability to address religious or spiritual (R/S) dimensions of clients’ lives via:

  • Generating methods and tools for defining, studying, and assessing R/S competencies

  • Establishing methods to train mental health professionals in R/S competencies

  • Synergizing diverse stakeholders with a commitment to promoting R/S competencies

  • Fueling momentum for systemic and cultural changes in ways R/S are addressed in mental health care


What’s New

 

Our Projects

Graduate Education in R/S Competencies

We will strengthen graduate education in R/S competencies by developing, evaluating, and disseminating standardized modular content that can be readily incorporated into existing clinical courses.

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Research and Clinical Training in R/S Competencies

We will promote research and clinical training in R/S competencies by developing empirically supported assessment tools and competency training methods for use in practicum, internship, and post-graduate educational programs.

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Status of R/S Training in Graduate Education

We will gain understanding of the need for and barriers to R/S competency training in graduate education by conducting a large-scale needs assessment survey of the views, behaviors, experiences, supports, and barriers of core training faculty.

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R/S Competency Training for Professionals

We will seek to overcome systemic barriers to widespread integration of R/S competencies in mental health professions via a coordinated set of systems-level change activities.

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