Prentice Institute Speaker Series
Stress and existential anxieties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have thrown into bold relief relationship and religious/spiritual concerns underlying mental health problems. We conducted a survey of Canadian mental health practitioners’ degree of engagement with these issues at the height of the pandemic April-July 2021 in the provinces of Alberta and Ontario (N=151). Three distinct counsellor profiles emerged from a latent profile analysis in terms of their demographics, experience and training. Predictive factors of whether practitioners will engage with issues of relationship and religion/spirituality are identified. Implications of these results for the training and education of mental health practitioners will be discussed in these precarious times of pandemics and global crises.
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