Brief Spiritual Assessment

Directions

-Instructions: Go to this webpage (https://www.nacsw.org/Download/CSW/SpiritualAssess.pdf) and read the "SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT: A REVIEW OF COMPLEMENTARY ASSESSMENT MODELS" pdf. Pay special attention to the section titled Spiritual Histories from pages 179-181. Students will complete the spiritual histories assessment with an adult outside of this course. If you decide to complete the assessment with someone outside of this course, you will keep their names confidential and not include their names in your paper. You are to address all questions in the 9 parts of Table 1 which is about 40 questions AND the reflection questions listed under question 6. This paper should be APA with all of the fixings including -a title page, introduction and conclusion paragraphs, headings, and a reference page. The body of your paper should be in narrative form when addressing the questions vs restating or numbering all of the questions and answers. Your paper should include at least 5 references and should be a minimum of 8 / Maximum of 12 pages including the title and reference page.

-Please remember and reference I am a Christian when you need to include this. My 77-year-old grandmother is Baptist and I want to use her as who I picked for the assessment.

-Include the Table I. Guidelines for conducting spiritual histories (I have attached the document questions)

-This typewritten paper must be double-spaced, neat, contain grammatically correct language and be free of spelling errors. If references are cited, they must conform to APA (7th edition) format. Internet references/articles are not acceptable unless they are online professional journal articles or are related to the online information generated by the religious institution. However, internet references generated from religious institutions websites are limited to two.

-Reflection: How did you feel completing this assessment with your interviewee? What feelings came up that you were not expecting? Did you identify any negative feelings or biases during the assessment? What value could you see this type of assessment adding to your work with clients? What potential risks did you identify/encounter while conducting the assessment? If you didn't identify any risks, what instances might pose risks if you were interviewing someone else? How did interviewing this person impact your spiritual/religious beliefs? How did it impact your biases about their spirituality/religion?