The Experiences of Religious/Spiritual Jewish Therapists Working with Religious/Spiritual Jewish Clients

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dc.contributor.advisorHill, Clara Een_US
dc.contributor.authorGerstenblith, Judith Annen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-10T05:35:35Z
dc.date.available2020-07-10T05:35:35Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractWe used Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR; Hill, 2012) to investigate the experiences of eleven religious/spiritual (R/S) Jewish therapists working with R/S Jewish clients in psychotherapy. R/S concerns involved struggles with Jewish identity, relationships, and the Jewish community. Therapists used R/S and non-R/S interventions to help with R/S concerns, although therapists explicitly discussed Jewish laws, beliefs, and practices more in successful than in unsuccessful cases. Therapists in both cases experienced R/S countertransference, but therapists in unsuccessful cases more often expressed uncertainty and regret regarding their clinical decisions. Therapists perceived that effective therapeutic interventions led to client improvement. Factors associated with success included therapists’ effective use of a shared R/S identity, ability to overcome tensions raised by R/S differences, and countertransference management; and clients’ openness, stability, and motivation. Implications include therapists developing an approach that is sensitive to R/S identity and researchers investigating therapeutic dyads with cultural and value-based similarities and differences.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/7e48-nioz
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26207
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCounseling psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledJudaismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpsychotherapy processen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledreligionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledspiritualityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtherapist interventionsen_US
dc.titleThe Experiences of Religious/Spiritual Jewish Therapists Working with Religious/Spiritual Jewish Clientsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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