Article
A Mindfulness Approach to Educating Preservice School Counselors about Spirituality
Counselling and Spirituality
(2013)
Abstract
Despite the growing demand to address the spiritual issues of K-12 students, many school counsellor preparation programs fail to provide adequate education in this domain. A mindfulness approach is proposed as a largely non-threatening and non-controversial way to introduce spirituality-related topics to preservice public school counsellors and to elementary and secondary students. After defining spirituality within a constructivist framework, the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of mindfulness as well as various programmatic (e.g., curricular and supervisorial changes) and practice-based (e.g., counselling interventions and techniques) recommendations for incorporating spirituality into the preservice counsellor education are presented.
Keywords
- Mindfulness,
- Perservice,
- Counselors,
- Spirituality,
- Education
Disciplines
Publication Date
2013
DOI
10.2143/CS.32.2.3017317
Citation Information
Richard E. Cleveland and Christopher A. Sink. "A Mindfulness Approach to Educating Preservice School Counselors about Spirituality" Counselling and Spirituality Vol. 32 Iss. 2 (2013) p. 59 - 77 ISSN: 2295-2837 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/richard-cleveland/1/