Colleague’s examples of spirituality’s influence in client relationships resonate

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.
Make sure to provide APA citations and a reference list.

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Explain how considerations about clients’ worldviews, including their spirituality or religious convictions, might affect your interactions with them.

As a social worker it is important to be considerate of a client’s background, both spirituality and culture. Spirituality is defined as ‘one’s values, beliefs, mission, awareness, subjectivity, and experience, sense of purpose and direction, and kind of striving towards something greater than oneself” (Zastrow et al., 2019). Religion is a set of beliefs and practices of a specific organized religious institution. The values of a social worker to recognize the central importance of human relationships. Social workers should also respect the inherent dignity and worth of a person (National Association of Social Workers, n.d.)

Provide at least two specific examples.

An example of consideration for a client would be one that has dietary restricts per their religion. Both Judaism and Islam do not eat pork. They do not eat any meat that is considered to be unclean. This also included unclean fish, birds, mammals, and other creatures (Brondz, 2018).

Another example would be Hinduism and Buddhism that believe in reincarnation. They believe that the soul of every person and plan is eternal and returns after death in another form. Most other religions believe that when you due you ascend into the afterlife (Somer et al., 2011).

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