Connecting Soul, Spirit, Mind, and Body: A Collection of Spiritual and Religious Perspectives and Practices in Counseling (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781680400083)

Ryan D. Foster, PhD, LPC-S (TX), LPC (VA), NCC, CHST, is assistant professor and clinic coordinator in the Department of Counseling at Tarleton State University in Waco, Texas. His scholarly interests include the use of spiritual and transpersonal experiences in bereavement counseling. In addition, he has published on ethics in counselor education and humanistic sandtray therapy. He has served as a board member of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling, as assistant editor for the Journal of Near-Death Studies, and as an editorial review board member for Counseling and Values. Janice Miner Holden, EdD, LPC- S, LMFT, NCC, ACMHP, is professor and chair of the Department of Counseling and Higher Education at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. During 20 years as a counselor educator, Dr. Holden has focused her scholarly pursuits on the transpersonal perspective in counseling: the perspective that includes transpersonal experiences-those transcending the usual personal limits of space and/or time-and transpersonal development-functioning at levels that both include and transcend a sense of personal, individual identity. In particular, she has researched near-death experiences-the counseling needs of experiencers and what these experiences have to reveal about the nature of consciousness and meaning of life. She has served as president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies and as editor of the organization's scholarly peer-reviewed Journal of Near-Death Studies.