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Aileen Rands, MS

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I am a doctoral candidate in the final year of my clinical psychology PhD. I recently started internship at the Salt Lake City VA, receiving emphasized training in areas of substance use and post traumatic stress disorder. My overarching clinical interest is in severe mental illness. My background of studying at a religious university, during both my undergraduate and graduate training, has led me to constantly reflect on spirituality/religion and mental health.

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Making Space for Spirituality While Treating Substance Use Disorders

As a graduate student new to addiction treatment, I have felt a growing curiosity about the degree to which spirituality is brought into psychotherapy. I attend a private religious university, thus my first therapy patients routinely spoke of God, recited scripture, or wrestled with interpretations of morality. This simultaneously became a sublime and perilous feature […]

Aileen Rands, MS

January 4, 2025

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