Request for Proposals: Spiritual Competency Training in Graduate Education

Leadership

Michelle Pearce, Ph.D.

Kenneth Pargament, Ph.D.

Joseph Currier, Ph.D.

Program Background and Overview

Interested in integrating Spiritual Competency Training in Mental Health into your graduate course? Research has shown the relevance of spirituality and religion for effective and client-centered mental health care. However, few graduate students receive training in how to conceptualize or address clients’ spirituality in their clinical practice. To address this need for training, we are inviting faculty from graduate programs in Counseling, Marital and Family Therapy, Clinical/Counseling Psychology, and Social Work to teach and evaluate standardized spiritual competency content that will be integrated into one of their required clinical courses.

Deadline 

Applications are due by July, 1 2022.

Course Content

The standardized course content will replace 15% of your current course’s content and will include in-class discussions, a role-play activity, and an empirically supported Spiritual Competency Training in Mental Health (SCT-MH) online training program. The SCT-MH program includes brief video lectures, didactic text, case studies, and practice activities. You will learn how to integrate and teach the course material with the help of a detailed teaching manual and course materials, a virtual live orientation session, and consultation calls. You will teach the rest of your current course as you typically do. 

Compensation

You will be paid a stipend of $30,000 to be trained in SCT-MH, teach the course, and facilitate collection of evaluation data. Your department/program will also receive $10,000 to integrate the SCT-MH program into your graduate program’s coursework. 

Apply 

Complete application packages should be submitted in a single email to spiritual.competency@southalabama.edu by July 1, 2022.