In a social work profession there are many important aspects that emerge into the client’s experience while engaging with the social worker. It is crucial for the social worker to be aware and familiar with the levels and differences that compose spirituality understandings. Within today’s society, there has been much implementation on spirituality response considering that the concept was never really acknowledge as it should have been years before. The element of spirituality is categorized as a biopsychological aspect which ultimately means that the social worker sees the client from a biological, psychological, and social standpoint. The spiritual dimension also refers to the role of religious or spiritual belief on well-being which does
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For example, she had been actively engaged in her grandson’s life until he decided to leave to the military and unfortunately passed away in Afghanistan. This event has made it difficult for her to function the way she needs to in order to gain participation in life again. Fowler’s theory insist that, “Faith does not necessarily relate to organized religion or even God, but rather to ways in which people find meaning and connection with others” (Fowler, 1981, 1996). Not only did she lose her grandson, but she also lost her son 14 years prior which really demonstrates that Carla Washburn is classified as being in stage 6 of Fowler’s theory of faith and development because she handles the circumstances with the characteristics of acceptance. With Carla Washburn being in stage 6, it entitles that, “People accept that conflicts exist between their beliefs and those of conventional religions. Spiritually takes on deeper meaning” (1981 …show more content…
Reason being is because Carla has been exposed to much more experience and has had more connections with society compared to Carl especially because he doesn’t have the surroundings that she does. The fact that there is a lot of change in spiritualizing happening rapidly shows that social workers have to be willing to learn and update themselves with the information that is now easily available to them. When “using ‘Fowler’s theory,’ social workers can help older clients to explore the meaning of their faith and come to terms with unresolved conflicts that may still be creating barriers to achieving a sense of peace and life satisfaction” (Pg.
For example, she had been actively engaged in her grandson’s life until he decided to leave to the military and unfortunately passed away in Afghanistan. This event has made it difficult for her to function the way she needs to in order to gain participation in life again. Fowler’s theory insist that, “Faith does not necessarily relate to organized religion or even God, but rather to ways in which people find meaning and connection with others” (Fowler, 1981, 1996). Not only did she lose her grandson, but she also lost her son 14 years prior which really demonstrates that Carla Washburn is classified as being in stage 6 of Fowler’s theory of faith and development because she handles the circumstances with the characteristics of acceptance. With Carla Washburn being in stage 6, it entitles that, “People accept that conflicts exist between their beliefs and those of conventional religions. Spiritually takes on deeper meaning” (1981 …show more content…
Reason being is because Carla has been exposed to much more experience and has had more connections with society compared to Carl especially because he doesn’t have the surroundings that she does. The fact that there is a lot of change in spiritualizing happening rapidly shows that social workers have to be willing to learn and update themselves with the information that is now easily available to them. When “using ‘Fowler’s theory,’ social workers can help older clients to explore the meaning of their faith and come to terms with unresolved conflicts that may still be creating barriers to achieving a sense of peace and life satisfaction” (Pg.