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HEALTH & SOCIAL WORK
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 314-323Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/30.4.314
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assessment; religion; spirituality; spiritual sensitivity; spiritual strengths
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Increasingly, social workers are being called on to conduct spiritual assessments, yet few assessment methods have appeared in academic literature. This article reviews five complementary assessment approaches that have recently been developed to highlight different facets of clients' spiritual lives. Specifically, one verbal model, spiritual histories, is discussed, along with four diagrammatic approaches: spiritual lifemaps, spiritual genograms, spiritual ecomaps, and spiritual ecograms. An overview of each approach is provided along with a discussion of its relative strengths and limitations. The aim here is to familiarize readers with a repertoire of spiritual assessment tools so that the most appropriate assessment method in a given client-practitioner setting can be selected.
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