explain one way your own spirituality or religious convictions might support your work with a client and one barrier it might present.

Spiritual Development

Read a selection of your colleagues’ posts.

Respond by Day 5 to at least two colleagues in one of the following ways:

• State how your colleague’s examples of spirituality’s influence in client relationships resonate with you. Provide support for your perspective.
• State whether you are likely to use your client’s strategy in your own social work practice, and explain why.

Be sure to support your responses with specific references to the resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references.

Colleague 1: Shanequa

Post a discussion in which you explain how considerations about clients’ worldviews, including spirituality or religious convictions, might affect your interactions with them.

-Provide at least two specific examples.

Many people hold their religion with high regard. The Muslim community believes in Allah. The Christian community believes that God sent his Son to be crucified for the sins of man. The Catholic community believes that the priests are the “middle man” between God and man.

When it comes to someone’s world views and religious beliefs, it can affect how the clients’ interact with a social worker. If a client has an idea or perspective that many people are afraid of Muslim people, they may be skeptical of trusting a social worker with their promises of help. If a client like Eboni, whose father is against abortion (Plummer, Makris, and Brocksen, 2014), may look at a social worker negatively for suggesting abortion when it was stated to her that God would not forgive her if she got one.

In addition, explain one way your own spirituality or religious convictions might support your work with a client and one barrier it might present.

When it comes to personal beliefs, as Christians, we need to love everyone, including our enemies. This belief would help in the social work practice because it means everyone we come in contact with needs to be treated with respect, whether they like us or not, and whether we agree with their life choices. A barrier that might be present would be some of the options the clients make. In the case of Eboni (although it did not state what her decision was), abortion would not be something to support. Life is life, even though the law states that a fetus is not alive until it takes a breath. Another example of this barrier would be to accept gay and lesbian relationships. It is said that God intended men to be with women only.

Finally, share one strategy for applying awareness of spirituality to social work practice in general.

A strategy for applying awareness of spirituality is to be knowledgeable of the practice of the different religions. Being spiritually aware of your clients’ beliefs would or could be used during meetings. An example is a Catholic client find themselves in a situation and need guidance. Recommending the client to attend a mass service or going to confession may help them see the advice they need to make crucial decisions. Social workers provide resources and suggestions to solve the client’s issues, but it is the client’s final say if the support and suggestions turn into action plans.

Colleague: Tatianna

Discussion in which you explain how considerations about clients’ worldviews, including their spirituality or religious convictions, might affect your interactions with them. Provide at least two specific examples. In addition, explain one way your own spirituality or religious convictions might support your work with a client, and one barrier it might present.

As a social worker it’s important to be culturally competent spiritually because this is a key to forming a client and worker relationship when conducting interventions and treatment plans. Each client you encounter has various beliefs, values, and morals that based off of their religion. The exposure of spirituality is forming everyday due to own personal trial and tribulations. As a social worker we value human relationships and its importance because without our client’s we can’t perform our duties and make a difference in our community in significant ways. Being educated on various religions can help us avoid being bias and not showing humility towards different backgrounds of the client. By respecting one’s religion and showing appreciation is showing competence by acknowledging that their spirituality plays a huge role in peoples live Furness & Gilligan, 2010).

Showing clients support by asking questions on their personal interests is another way to show that you care about their religious views. As a Christian I firmly believe that I can’t judge anyone, only God can. I stand by this because I want to be accepted just like my clients would want to be accepted. Motivating my client by respecting their opinions can transpire into them changing their lives for the better when having a person in their corner that’s nonjudgmental. In order to lead people into a greater life, I would have to implement self-awareness in my social work practice because how I say things can offend my client. In addition to upholding the value of treating my client with dignity and respect as a human being.

Finally, share one strategy for applying an awareness of spirituality to social work practice in general.

A strategy that that would enhance the awareness of spirituality within the social work practice would be to educate ourselves on humility and learning others cultural background. Being stagnant on not expanding knowledge of other religions can be a huge barrier when interacting with clients. By allowing various point of views to be seen with an open mind would be beneficial towards social work as a whole. Moreover, listening to your client’s needs and beliefs would bring awareness of their spirituality (Furness & Gilligan, 2010).

Furness, S., & Gilligan, P. (2010). Social Work, Religion and Belief: Developing a

Frame-work for Practice. British Journal of Social Work, 40(7), 2185-2202

Subject: Masters Social Science

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