C Chasidut, 7 9 Chi Gong, 7, 8, 10

A African American beliefs, 53, 54 church visit, 51 culture, 53 faith, 52 family and community, 50 poverty and racism, 53 religion, 54 slavery, 53 spirituality, 51, 54 values, 54 wisdom, 55 African traditions ancestors, 72 anthropologist and priest, 77 communal identity, 74 community, 73 culture, 73 heritage, 68 immigrants, 67, 71 metaphors, 79 monotheistic religious traditions, 73 practices and rituals, 70 prayers, 77 refugees, 75 religion and spirituality, 67 religious beliefs, 72 rites of passage, 79, 80 spirits, 73 spiritual beliefs, 73 sun/moon, 73 worship, 76 Anthrotherapist, 30 Arabs belief system, 18, 19 grief, 23 immigrated in USA, 27 internal/external locus of control, 23, 27 Islamic movement, 17, 28 Quran, 16 socialization process, 19 sociocultural and political, 28 spiritual practice, 16 women dress code, 17 B Bakhtin, M., 125, 126, 131 Balance, 83, 84, 86, 87 Bardos, 12 Beliefs African American, 53 afterlife, 25 Arabs, 18, 19 hopeful/hopeless, 49 impermissible, 3 locus of control, 19 permissible, 3 Sikh, 34 soul, 25 transcendental meditation, 26 Bibliotherapy, 28 C Chasidut, 7 9 Chi Gong, 7, 8, 10 American Family Therapy Academy 2018 D. Trimble (ed.), Engaging with Spirituality in Family Therapy, AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77410-7 141

142 Christian discourse, 3 Communion, 75 77 Community, 38, 74, 87 Cultural discourses, 45 Culturally relevant intervention childhood abuse, 59 client history, 58 connectedness, 59 Energy Psychology, 60 family story, 59 hope practices, 61 psychiatric hospitalizations, 58 recovery process, 61 resistance, 59 sexual trauma, 59 spirituality, 60 Spoon Theory, 61 treatment, 60 Culture, 2, 42 Culture bound syndrome, 108, 119 Cyber infidelity, 28, 29 D Dialogic practice, 2, 5, 13 Dialogue, 125, 127, 131, 132, 138, 139 Dichotomy, 135 Discourse Christianity, 3, 4 Judaism, 4 monologue, 4 neoliberal capitalism, 3, 4 psychotherapeutic and metaphysical, 7 E Eastern religion, 85 Energy Psychology, 60 Entanglement, 91 Epigenetics, 90 Epistemology, 42 Ethical practice clinical judgment, 6 informed consent, 7 metaphysical, 6 psychotherapeutic principle, 6 spiritually informed therapy, 6 F Faith, 57 Faith communities, 38 Faith identities, 34, 35 Family soul, 89 91, 102, 105 Family therapy, 16, 98, 119, 120, 124, 125, 131 132 Arabs culture (see Arabs) behavioral change, 57 hope, faith, and resistance, 57 questions, 56, 57 spirituality and religion, 1 G Global culture, 125, 130, 139 Grief and remedy, 23 Group consciousness, 91, 92, 103 H Healing systems community, 74 conscious and unconscious ways, 67 immigrants and refugees, 71 73 metaphors, 77 79 prayers, 75 77 rites of passage, 79, 80 spiritual foundations, 68 71 Herky jerky movements, 114 Hindu Muslim conflict, 37 Hope, 50, 57, 62, 64 clinical practice, 56, 57 community-based interventions, 62, 63 questions, 64 spirituality and religion, 63 Hopelessness, 49, 50, 62 Humanistic morality, 33 Humanity, 2 Hypertext identity, 41 I Immigrants, 45, 74 adaptation, 75 in Africa, 67 faithful companioning, 80 life, 71 73 refugees (see also Refugees) spiritual beings, 74 Inclusive theology, 83, 84 Individualism, 125 Instrumental and metaphysical practice, 1, 5, 41, 133 Intergenerational loss, 99 100

143 Internal/external locus of control, 23, 27 Invisible loyalties, 91 Islamic movement, 17, 28 Islamic spirituality afterlife, 25 family therapy, 21 Mauled, 24 prayers, 23 Prophet Mohammad, 21 soul, 25 transcendental meditation, 26 trauma, 22 J Judaism, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 21 K Kabbalah, 7 9, 11, 12 Kakuma refugee camp, 70 Knowing field, 93, 102 Kubler-Ross stage model, 24 L Language, 18 Learning family therapy, 7 Loss, 21, 23 25, 27 Lost Boys, 74 M Marriage and Family Therapy, 45 Mental health, 25, 27 Metaphors, 77 79 Monologue, 5 Multiculturalism, 1 Muslim politics of religion, 38 religious identity, 37 women education, 37 N Narrative therapists, 43 Narrative therapy, 28 Nature, 84 Negotiated realities, 42, 43 Neoliberal capitalism, 3, 4 O Obsessive compulsive symptoms, 104 105 P Palestinians Catholic schooling, 20 modern and traditional lifestyle, 19 post-trauma, 20 Paradoxical compatibility, 84 Phenomenology, 89 Philosophy, 84, 85 Placebo effect, 17 Polyphonic discourse, 135 Prayers, 22, 23, 26, 75 77 Protestant tradition, 50, 60 Psychotherapeutic practice, 9 Psychotherapy benevolent and malevolent spirits, 10, 11 divorce, 45 DSM diagnosis, 45 metaphysical practice, 10, 11 religion, 39, 40 self-realization fellowship, 10 spirituality, 41 traumatic stress and somatization, 10 vulnerability, 11 Punjabi Subha movement, 36 Q Quran therapy ritual, 17 R Reframing, 86 Refugees, 70 Africa, 75 children, 74 immigrants (see also Immigrants) life, 71 73 populations, 70 Reiki, 97 Religion in therapy, 4, 39, 40 Religiosity, 27 Religious identity, 34, 37 Religious morality, 33 Resilience, 50, 61, 62, 64 Resistance, 57, 59

144 Rites of passage, 79, 80 Rivett & Street, 125, 126 S Sacred space, 12, 13, 39 ancestors, 124 appreciation and love, 135 catastrophic death and destruction, 137 childlike imaginations, 137 conversation, 124, 125 description, 134, 135 family therapy, 131 132 in global culture, 130 imagining, 130 in-tension, 135 invitations, 139 language, 125 129 location, 132 pain and suffering, 133 134 sense of specialness, 136 spiritans, 129 spirituality, 124 129, 135 transcendence, 136 transformation, 137 139 video and music, 136 Salat Alistichara ( the guidance seeking prayer ), 26, 27 SANKOFA, 62 7Cs, 62 hope, 63 teaching strategies, 62 value of connectedness, 63 Segregation, 51, 52 Self, 38, 46 Self-actualization, 108 Self-realization fellowship, 10 Shamanism, 8 Sikh belief, 34 Canadian Sikhs, 36 discrimination, 40 divorce, 44 faith, 36 gender equity, 44 political events, 36 principle, 33 social inequality, 36 Social inequality, 36 Social justice, 39, 44, 51 Spiritans, 129 Spiritual emergency, 113, 116 119 Spiritual foundations, 68 71 Spiritual identity, 74 Spiritual practice, 46 Spiritual/religious therapy, 17 Spirituality agreeing/accepting, 127 Arabs, 16 belief systems, 2 (see also Beliefs) beliefs and practices, 126 complexity, 126 conversation, 127 definition, 54 experiences, 125 family therapy, 1 instrumental and metaphysical interventions, 125 instrumental practice, 5 Judaism, 127 language, 127 metaphysical practice, 5, 8 psychotherapy, 3 religion, 50, 128 religious tradition, 126 ritual worship, 128 socialization, 127 spiritual communities, 128 Spoon Theory, 61 Sun worshippers, 115 Support Systems and Community Mental Health, 27 Systemic family constellations alternative settings, 102 105 body, mind and spirit connection, 96 98 church, 96 clients, 90 efficacy, 105 106 family soul, 90 healing process, 89 intergenerational loss, 99 100 intergenerational wounds, 90 intuition, 89 invitation, 98 liturgy, 96 methods, 92 94 music, 96 obsessive compulsive symptoms, 104 105 origin, 91 personal history, 94 95 personal impact, 101, 102 Reiki, 97 ripple effect, 103 104 somatic/personal realms, 89 spiritual process, 90 symptom reduction, 90 systemic thinking, 90 traditional therapeutic methods, 90

145 vertigo as teacher, 97 workshop, 99 T Tao appealing aspects, 84 clinical constructs, 85 86 community, 87 examination, 84 flow, 87 grace unfolding, 86 Yin and Yang, 85 Taoism affirming community, 87 appealing aspects, 84 clinical constructs, 85 86 Eastern Philosophy, 85 path, 86 symbolic and spiritual meaning, 84 training, 84 The story of Mot, 74, 75 Transcendence, 84, 136 Transformation, 137 139 Transformational experience, 119 Trans-generational transmission of patterns, 92 Trauma, 22, 24, 27 circumstances, 112 dangerous situations, 110 description, 108 dogma and doctrine, 108 dreams, 110 hope, 109 Lakota, 108 mysterious tremendum, 109 Native American spiritual experiences, 107 non-tribal people, 108 pastoral setting, 121 planning and reasoning, 109 prayers, 111 revitalization, 118 rituals, 109 self-actualization, 108 spiritual experience, 107 sweat ceremony, 110 sweat lodge ceremony, 111 sweat lodge group, 109 symbols, 119 tribal Sundancers, 108 tribes, 121 united mindfulness, 117 valuable advice, 110 Western concepts, 107 Western Psychological approaches, 107 V Vertigo, 97 Vision quest balance, 118 Choctaw and Cherokee tribal people, 110 W Well-being, 50, 52, 56, 57 Wonders, 136 Writing-in-inquiry, 34, 35, 42