Welcome
ASERVIC is an organization of counselors and human development professionals who believe that spiritual, ethical, and religious values are essential to the overall development of the person and are committed to integrating these values into the counseling process. Through research and practice, ASERVIC empowers and enables the exploration, development, and expression of spiritual, ethical, and religious values relating to the person, society, and counseling professional.
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President’s Welcome!
Dear ASERVIC members and guests,
Welcome! We are so glad you have found your way to this page. The Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC) has existed since 1951 as a division within the American Counseling Association (ACA). We are devoted to the pursuit of understanding how to integrate religion and spirituality into counseling, acknowledging that this pursuit includes working with a vast range of beliefs, values, and practices that people draw upon to encounter deeper meaning and divine guidance in their lives. We believe in the sanctity of religion and spirituality as a pathway to healing, and as an important component of cultural competency in counseling.
At ASERVIC, we hold a pluralistic respect for all religions and forms of spirituality. One aim as an organization is to provide resources, training, guidance, and research to fill in gaps in training, as many counselor training programs do not have specific course content in spiritual and religious integration. ASERVIC has been a leader in developing Spiritual and Religious Competencies, and we have a committee currently working on revising these competencies based on research-based knowledge and insight. Our journal, Counseling & Values, contains the latest research in the field and fills an important role in publishing articles focused on spiritual and religious integration, as well as consideration of ethics and values in the counseling process. Additionally, we provide webinars throughout the year, and aim to have an annual conference each summer. In this way, ASERVIC strives to provide rich content and valuable training for both members and nonmembers. We hope you will check out some of this work!
We also have an amazing team of elected board members , who are passionate about this work and who bring their diverse experiences and expertise to leadership. In addition to the leadership team, we rely on the involvement of our members! We would love to find ways to include you on a committee if you have the interest and the time to serve in this way. We also welcome ACA members to join us on ACA Connect , an online discussion board that allows us to send out messages and lets members engage with each other. We believe that we are stronger in community with each other and welcome you to connect in meaningful ways within the organization.
We are so glad you are here and hope you will consider ways to get involved in the many exciting things ASERVIC is doing!
In Community,
Hannah Bayne, PhD, LPC
ASERVIC President 2023 – 2024
Who We Are
ASERVIC members appreciate diversity and respect the uniqueness of each person’s journey of growth, development, and transcendence.
Get Involved
ASERVIC members include followers of a variety of religious faiths
and beliefs, as well as those whose spiritualities are not connected
with traditional world religions.
ASERVIC Competencies
The Competencies for Addressing Spiritual and Religious Issues in Counseling are guidelines that complement, not supersede, the values and standards espoused in the ACA Code of Ethics.