This article examines the ways that spiritual beliefs and traditions associated with the Filipino culture influenced an 1 I-year-old boy's efforts to cope with the death of his mother. Implications for attending to clients' spiritual beliefs are discussed.Researchers have noted that most people in the United States have some sort of spiritual identity (Gallup & Castelli, 1989;Kelly, 1995). The term spiritual identrty refers to the manner in which a person's spiritual beliefs influence their self-definition and the way that person constructs meaning of life (D'Andrea & Daniels, in press). Although a person's spirituality clearly plays an important role in the psychological development of many ifnot most people in our modem society, it is curious that this issue has not been extensively addressed by counseling theorists and researchers in the past. Recently, however, a number of persons in the profession have demonstrated increased interest in understanding how issues related to spirituality affect human development. To gain an increased understanding of the ways in which spirituality influences an individual's psychological development, it is important to first define what we mean by this term.In attempting to define this construct, Albanese (1992) pointed out that the term Spirituality has been commonly used to refer to "extraordinary" experiences that go beyond the boundaries of the strictly objective, empirically perceived material world. Kelly ( 1995) built on