TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing a spiritual assessment toolbox
T2 - A discussion of the strengths and limitations of five different assessment methods
AU - Hodge, David
PY - 2005/11
Y1 - 2005/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Assessment
KW - Religion
KW - Spiritual sensitivity
KW - Spiritual strengths
KW - Spirituality
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U2 - 10.1093/hsw/30.4.314
DO - 10.1093/hsw/30.4.314
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16323723
AN - SCOPUS:30844472673
SN - 0360-7283
VL - 30
SP - 314
EP - 323
JO - Health and Social Work
JF - Health and Social Work
IS - 4
ER -