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However, many graduate programs face logistic challenges for equipping students with basic attitudes, knowledge, and skills to attend to patients\u2019 S\/R. The purpose of this study was to explore strategies for infusing content related to spiritual and religious competencies into mental health graduate coursework in an interdisciplinary sample of 1173 full-time faculty (response rate\u2009=\u200917%) from across the USA (e.g., S\/R assessment, self-awareness about S\/R background, knowledge about S\/R as a source of strength or struggle). Overall, roughly 90% of the faculty respondents had addressed one or more facets of S\/R competence in their primary course or content area over the prior year. In 60\u201370% of these cases, faculty addressed S\/R in certain assignments\/discussions rather than teaching content related to spiritual\/religious aspects of wellness and functioning throughout an entire course. Additional analyses revealed psychology faculty were generally less likely to teach about S\/R than counterparts from the other disciplines and participants with salient spiritual identities were especially likely to teach varying facets of S\/R competence. 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