Open AccessListening to our Stillness: Giving Voice to Our Spirituality (Spirituality & Clinical Practice)
Author(s) -
Wanda Wagler-Martin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
critical social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1543-9372
DOI - 10.22329/csw.v6i2.5671
Subject(s) - spirituality , active listening , psychological intervention , psychology , social work , clinical practice , psychotherapist , work (physics) , social integration , sociology , medicine , nursing , political science , alternative medicine , psychiatry , engineering , mechanical engineering , pathology , law , anthropology
This paper explores the integration of spirituality in clinical social work practice. Social Work’s history with respect to spirituality and practice, and the tensions that have existed, are reviewed. Further, the paper outlines a rationale for the importance of this integration, while also looking at obstacles to including spirituality in practice that some social workers encounter. Interventions are posed as a possible means to facilitate the integration of spirituality and clinical social work practice.