Counseling Older Adults by Blando John;

Author:Blando, John;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2011-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Further Information

A brilliant introduction to the world’s religion is Huston Smith’s The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991).

Although the primary texts of your clients’ spiritual traditions can sometimes be challenging to read and comprehend without commentaries, it may be invaluable to familiarize yourself with them. These texts include the Dhammapada (Buddhist), the New Testament (Christian), the Analects (Confucian), the Bhagavad-Gita (Hindu), the Qur’an (Muslim), the Torah (Jewish), and the Tao Te Ching (Taoist). Primal and indigenous religions do not have a common core text, but you might consult such books as John G. Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks (Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2004) or Marta Moreno Vega’s The Altar of My Soul (New York: Ballantine, 2001) to gain a deeper understanding of some of these traditions. Likewise, humanists do not have a core text, but you might be interested in reading Richard Dawkins’s provocative The God Delusion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006). English translations of many of the religious texts are available online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Internet Classics Archive at http://classics.mit.edu.

An interesting book bridging Chinese thought (Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian) and counseling is Robert Santee’s An Integrative Approach to Counseling (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007).

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