Spiritual Assessment in Social Work and Mental Health Practice
Spirituality often plays a critical role in health and wellness, but the process through which practitioners can identify and use clients’ spiritual strengths has not been explored in any detail. To address this gap, this practice-oriented text equips helping professionals with the tools needed to administer spiritual assessments in ethically and professionally. David Hodge outlines a number of approaches to assessment, including an implicit approach to evaluate “secular” forms of spirituality. Case examples illustrate the implementation of these approaches in different clinical settings with diverse groups.
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Spiritual Assessment in Social Work and Mental Health Practice
Spirituality often plays a critical role in health and wellness, but the process through which practitioners can identify and use clients’ spiritual strengths has not been explored in any detail. To address this gap, this practice-oriented text equips helping professionals with the tools needed to administer spiritual assessments in ethically and professionally. David Hodge outlines a number of approaches to assessment, including an implicit approach to evaluate “secular” forms of spirituality. Case examples illustrate the implementation of these approaches in different clinical settings with diverse groups.
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Spiritual Assessment in Social Work and Mental Health Practice

Spiritual Assessment in Social Work and Mental Health Practice

by David Hodge
Spiritual Assessment in Social Work and Mental Health Practice

Spiritual Assessment in Social Work and Mental Health Practice

by David Hodge

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Overview

Spirituality often plays a critical role in health and wellness, but the process through which practitioners can identify and use clients’ spiritual strengths has not been explored in any detail. To address this gap, this practice-oriented text equips helping professionals with the tools needed to administer spiritual assessments in ethically and professionally. David Hodge outlines a number of approaches to assessment, including an implicit approach to evaluate “secular” forms of spirituality. Case examples illustrate the implementation of these approaches in different clinical settings with diverse groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231538817
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 01/20/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 343,123
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

David Hodge, Ph.D., MSW, is an associate professor at Arizona State University's School of Social Work. He also holds nonresident appointments at Duke, Baylor, and the University of Pennsylvania. An internationally recognized scholar in spirituality, religion, and culture, Hodge has written extensively on spiritual assessment and intervention with diverse groups.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Understanding Spirituality and Religion
2. Rationales for Conducting a Spiritual Assessment
3. Brief Assessment
4. Guidelines for Moving to a Comprehensive Spiritual Assessment
5. Comprehensive Assessment and Spiritual Histories
6. Spiritual Lifemaps
7. Spiritual Genograms
8. Spiritual Eco-maps
9. Spiritual Ecograms
10. Implicit Spiritual Assessment
11. Conducting Spiritual Assessments
12. Summary of Key Points and Future Directions
References
Index

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