Integrating Spirituality in Clinical Social Work Practice: Walking the Labyrinth (Advancing Core Competencies)

Focuses on the inclusion of spiritual issues in the clinical social work process.

 

Part of Advancing Core Competencies Series, a unique series that helps students taking advanced social work courses apply CSWE’s core competencies and practice behaviors examples to specialized fields of practice.

 

Integrating Spirituality in Clinical Social Work Practice: Walking the Labyrinth focuses on the inclusion of spiritual issues in the clinical social work process using the metaphor of the labyrinth to discuss the implementation of spiritual issues in the various phases of the treatment process – engagement, assessment, intervention, endings, and more.

 

It makes the clear distinction between the concepts of “spirituality” and “religion” and addresses sensitive issues such as guilt, shame, forgiveness, death & dying, trauma, gender and social justice.  

 

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers should be able to:

• Understand how the labyrinth’s cyclical nature resembles the therapeutic process and reminds us that our work with clients often includes moving towards and moving away before we achieve the goal
• Acknowledge the importance of the sacred (therapeutic) relationship between therapist and client
• Learn the importance of understanding our countertransference reactions, exploring our own beliefs and biases and reflecting on how they may affect our work.
• Distinguish between the concepts of “spirituality” and “religion”

Note: MySocialWorkLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySocialWorkLab, please visit: www.mysocialworklab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MySocialWorkLab (at no additional cost). VP: 0205206840