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¶ … efficacy of prayer has often been documented, but at the same time there are a lot of ethical concerns and people are reluctant to combine prayer with counseling. The authors of this article discuss the ethical concerns and recommend ways of circumnavigating and dealing with these concerns. Counselors are recommended to care for the client's welfare and prayer is a great part of that caring, either for counselors themselves praying for clients or advocating that clients resort to prayer.
Realistically speaking, however, todays counselors would be reluctant to employ spiritual tools, such as prayer and counseling, to psychological problems. Counselors who work in religious practice may find it helpful and therapeutic to pry with client in both a private and family group sessions. Other counselors who work in private settings but have religious clients may find it, likewise, helpful for these clients that they offer prayer as part of the arsenal of their program. This is particularly so since religion is an important coping strategy for client. The prayer should be kept brief, counselor should explore client's reaction to inclusion of prayer in program, and counselor should exclude himself form prayer whilst client prays.
Prayer too should be limited to healthy, not pathological needs and desires. Finally, counselor should explore with client impact of prayer on client.
Efficacy of prayer demands great cultural competency on the part of the counselor particularly if the counselor belongs to another religion or is secular. The...
Adopting these practices in this way will prevent scruples of mixing religion with counseling.
In your own words, reflect (in 1 page) on the article
Counseling does require that the counselor make the client's welfare the focus of the session. The counseling is not about the counselor; it is about the client. In that way, therefore, *'s article makes perfect sense, for a religious client, their welfare is best served by prayer and he or she is succored and comforted by religion. Prayer, in fact, may provide as much healing as the social support, counseling techniques, and medication that the counselor provides. Prayer may be a placebo for the client.
As * observe, a large name of the population espouse belief in the comfort of prayer. Since counseling is supposed to serve as comfort and means for finding solutions to personal problems as well as for generating ways to dealing with these problems and…
Reference
Weld, C & Erickson, K (2007) The Ethics of Prayer in Counseling and values, Volume 51
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