The Examen is a 500-year-old end of day prayer developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (better known as the Jesuits). Like many other religious or spiritual practices, such as mindfulness and yoga, the Examen is suitable as either a spiritually focused or secular intervention strategy to assist people within clinical psychotherapy practice and elsewhere. Adapting the Examen as a cognitive behavioral psychotherapy intervention is easy to do and may add another important tool to the toolbox of practicing clinicians interested in thoughtfully integrating spiritually based approaches in their clinical work with religiously as well as nonreligiously minded clients.

考试是由耶稣会（更广为人知的耶稣会士）创始人洛约拉的圣伊格内修斯 (St. Ignatius of Loyola) 开发的具有 500 年历史的祈祷日。与许多其他宗教或精神实践（例如正念和瑜伽）一样，Examen 适合作为一种专注于精神或世俗的干预策略，以帮助人们进行临床心理治疗实践和其他领域。将考试改编为认知行为心理治疗干预很容易做到，并且可能会为有兴趣将基于精神的方法深思熟虑地整合到他们的临床工作中与宗教和非宗教思想客户的临床医生的工具箱中添加另一个重要工具。