Get ready to squirm in your seats because we need to have a talk with you about spirituality. Spirituality is a topic we behavioral health types have shied away from: Professionals are taught to avoid it in their practices, and organizations have concerns about the separation of church and state. Many of the people who use our services, however, tell us that some form of spirituality plays a key role in their recovery process. So, since we're all trying to create opportunities for people to recover, we'd better get over ourselves and figure out how to talk to people about this.
We've asked Rev. Laura Mancuso, a psychiatric rehabilitation counselor and interfaith minister, to help us discover ways of including spirituality in program planning and initiate conversations with people that will help them develop spiritual competence.
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