Should Social Work Education Address Religious Issues? Yes!

Hemert, Katherine Amato-von

doi:10.1080/10437797.1994.10672208

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“…Recent papers on spiritual topics include spiritual and religious principles in social work practice (Ballinger & Watt, 1996;Elhany, McLaughlin, Brown, & Bertucci, 1996), the inclusion of spirituality in human behavior and practice courses (Martin & Bailey, 1996;Thornton & Garrett, 1996;Russel & Derezotes, 1996;Robbins, Canda, & Chatterjee, 1996), and the benefits of examining one's own spirituality (Dudley & Rice, 1996). Over the last decade, others have looked at the contributions of religion to social work (Canda, 1988;Siporin, 1986), the religious beliefs of social work educators and practitioners (Bergin, 1991;Derezotes, 1995;Sheridan, Bullis, Adcock, Berlin, & Miller, 1992;Sheridan, Wilmer, & Atcheson, 1994), spirituality in social work course content (Canda, 1989), and religion in social work research (Faver, 1986) and have engaged in debates about spirituality in social work (Cornett, 1992;Hemert, 1994).…”

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Understanding the Life Issues of Spiritually-Based Clients

Pellebon

Anderson

1999

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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Understanding the meaning of life events from the perspective of a spiritually-based client is essential in social work practice. This article discusses several life events that are likely experienced by clients with spiritual worldvlews. The meaning of childbirth and the perception of human nature provide insight into the family's socialization experience. In adolescence, sexuality and the potential for parental conflict emerge as issues that require a spiritually-sensitive approach. In adulthood. the spiritual reality has the most notable impact on an individual's attitudes, behaviors, and the decision-making process. Because spirituality operates similar to cultural realities, the authors' support the development of a knowledge base for working with clients who have a spiritual worldview.

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Understanding the Life Issues of Spiritually-Based Clients

Pellebon

Anderson

1999

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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“…One way to address this void in social work education is through the incorporation of a transpersonal perspective in practice classes (Cowley & Derezotes, 1994). Accomplishing this should not prove difficult, as social work educators have already demonstrated the ability to creatively adapt curricula in other domains by including diverse themes such as religion (Hemert & Clark, 1994) and women's issues (Carter & Coudrouglou, 1994).…”

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Beyond the Disease Model: Reframing the Etiology of Alcoholism From a Spiritual Perspective

Bliss

2009

Journal of Teaching in the Addictions

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The disease model of alcoholism, which has gained prominence since the mid-20th century as the major etiological model of alcoholism, suffers from several limitations including its overemphasis on biological factors at the expense of other psychosocial factors, in addition to its lack of consistency with a holistic, social work person-in-environment perspective. The increased interest in spirituality among social work and other helping professionals calls on educators and practitioners to be at the forefront of efforts to develop new holistic conceptualizations of alcoholism that can incorporate spirituality. Using transpersonal theory as a conceptual framework, a spiritual etiological model of alcoholism is presented that complements the strengths of the disease model by allowing for the inclusion of biological determinants of alcoholism, providing a complementary way to understand alcoholism that can be taught to students and utilized by practitioners.

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“…Religion is widely discussed in the context of social work education. Hemert (1994) , for example, argues that social workers should receive religious training in order to understand their clients' attitudes towards clinical practice. Practitioners, she argues, should also be aware of various support networks provided by religious communities, such as soup kitchens and homeless shelters.…”

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Exploring the Sacred-Secular Dialect in Everyday Social Work Practice: An Analysis of Religious Responses to Managerialism among Outreach Social Workers in Hong Kong: Table 1

Groves

Siu

2015

Br J Soc Work

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We examine the recent proliferation of religious discourses among front line social workers in the former British Colony of Hong Kong in order to explore the nature of ‘re-enchantment’ in modern social work practice. In-depth qualitative interviews with twenty social workers who identify as ‘Christian social workers’ in a variety of social work organisations (both religious and secular) reveal the adoption of religious identities and discourses to navigate the encroachment of managerialism. A systematic analysis of these narratives suggests that Christian social workers evoke religion to reclaim feelings of authenticity in their work, to facilitate more personalised relationships with their clients, and to empower themselves following the introduction of managerialist policies. We illuminate the dialectical relationship between religious discourses and managerialism to critique claims in the literature about a ‘re-enchantment’ in social work, and to understand the essence of religion in modern social work practice.

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Should Social Work Education Address Religious Issues? Yes!

Cited by 44 publications

References 7 publications

Understanding the Life Issues of Spiritually-Based Clients

Understanding the Life Issues of Spiritually-Based Clients

Beyond the Disease Model: Reframing the Etiology of Alcoholism From a Spiritual Perspective

Exploring the Sacred-Secular Dialect in Everyday Social Work Practice: An Analysis of Religious Responses to Managerialism among Outreach Social Workers in Hong Kong: Table 1

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