Counseling and Values
June 30, 2026
Anna Lee Brown, Cyrus Williams, J. Ripley et al.
Compassion and empathy are essential dispositions in effective counseling, however, empirical research has not sufficiently examined how counselors’ spiritual experiences relate to these qualities.1 This study examined whether spiritual transcendence predicts compassion and empathy among professional counselors. Participants ( N = 95) reported engagement in spiritually transcendent experiences...
Counseling and Values
October 1, 2010
J. Scott Young, Craig S. Cashwell, Amanda L. Giordano
15 citations
Using the breath as a vehicle for accessing psychological material is a topic rarely discussed in the counseling literature, despite the use of conscious engagement with the breath by many spiritual traditions for the purpose of personal transformation. This article describes 3 types of conscious breathing (circular breathing, conscious connected breathing, and fast and full breathing) and the...
Counseling and Values
April 1, 2010
Craig S. Cashwell, Harriet L. Glosoff, Chereé Hammond
44 citations
The phenomenon of spiritual bypass has received limited attention in the transpersonal psychology and counseling literature and has not been subjected to empirical inquiry. This study examines the phenomenon of spiritual bypass by considering how spirituality, mindfulness, alexithymia (emotional restrictiveness), and narcissism work together to influence depression and anxiety among college...
Counseling and Values
April 1, 1994
Walter E. Conn
Pastoral counseling is distinguished from secular counseling by “limit experiences.” These are experiences that disclose the fullness of self-transcendence—for Christians, a personal relationship with God. But the radical drive of the human spirit for self-transcendence unifies every dimension of the developing person. This drive thus forms the basis of a fundamental continuity between pastoral...
Counseling and Values
October 1, 1991
Ann Schopen, Brenda Freeman
8 citations
In this article we discuss aspects of the history of the demise of meditation in the West and its recent re‐emergence as an Eastern system. Reasons for this phenomenon will be explored. The differences between Eastern and Western meditation, the psychology of meditation, research in the field, as well as applications of meditation to counseling will be discussed.
Counseling and Values
October 1, 1982
R. Stensrud, K. Stensrud
Reviews elements of A. Maslow's (1968) work and shows how E. FROMM's (1976) distinction between >having being being me< decade. However, the counseling needs of the 1980's require an approach that recognizes the transpersonal nature of the self. Transpersonal psychology is more than a strategy for self-transcendence; it is also an approach to environmental assessment that clarifies the...