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- Title: Spiritual Assessment (Letters)
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 160 KB
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David R. Hodge's "Spiritual Assessment: A Re* view of Major Qualitative Methods and a New Framework for Assessing Spirituality" (Social Work, July 2001) is a welcome addition to the literature on social work and spirituality. As the author points out, spirituality is a subject too long neglected in our profession and its inclusion is critical to good practice. However, the approach to spirituality offered by Mr. Hodge is problematic and presents three primary obstacles that must be addressed if we are to advance our understanding of spirituality in social work practice. First, the appropriateness of a "spiritual assessment" is questionable. I would be among the first to agree that information pertaining to a client's spiritual beliefs and practices can be crucial to developing a good assessment. However, the distance between gathering information regarding a client's spirituality and justifying a "spiritual assessment," qualitative or quantitative, requires a great leap. Information pertaining to a client's spiritual beliefs and practices is as important as other kinds of client information, but it is no more important than other aspects of family history or social functioning, but to grant it special status deserving of its own assessment is unwarranted and may prove detrimental. In these unfortunate days of managed care, it is difficult to imagine a payoff equal to the time necessary to conduct a separate, stand-alone spiritual assessment.
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