Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2024

Keywords

clinical practice, religion, spirituality, Judaism, Sephardic

Abstract

This article presents a dialogue between two Jewish psychologists who share their respective personal and professional journeys on how spirituality and religious affiliation impacts their work as clinicians. They address the following questions: How would you identify your cultural background with respect to your religious or spiritual history and identity? How do you manage the competing demands of respecting both individual cultural identity and group cultural identity? How did your early experiences with Judaism influence your professional practice? What were your earliest academic influences on the question of spirituality in psychology? How have religion and spirituality manifested in your clinical practice? What are some of the specific challenges you have encountered along the way? It is the authors’ hope that their responses to these questions will provide insights to all clinicians, regardless of one’s religious or spiritual identity.

Publication Title

Spirituality in Clinical Practice

ISSN

ISSN: 2326-4500

Volume

11

First Page

14

Last Page

19

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000356

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