Answer the following questions: Given what you have readings regarding spirituality and your own knowledge and experiences with diversity and different religious and nonreligious spiritual traditions, respond to the following:

        To which spiritual perspectives do you have the most positive reactions, for example, you are in the most agreement with feel appreciation or attraction toward, are the most comfortable with finding it easiest to keep an open mind and heart about? What is it about you that contributes to these reactions? (e.g. knowledge, personal experiences, messages from family or larger culture?

        Consider how the following concepts are represented in the event: culture, cultural values, cultural ideology, cultural symbols, language, cultural norms, subcultures
        To which perspective do you have the most negative reactions what about you contribute to these reactions?

        Select one of the questions from Exhibit 6.5 in the Hutchinson textbook Chapter 6 and identify one question you would be comfortable asking a client. Now identify a question you might be uncomfortable asking a client. What factors may be contributing to your comfort and discomfort?

        Select one of the cases at the beginning of the Hutchison chapter 6 apply either Fowlers stages of faith development or Wilbers integral theory of consciousness. Discuss how the framework can be used to understand a persons spiritual development. How would this information help you work with him or her as a social worker?

Guidelines

        In 1-2 pages provide responses for the assignment above
        Use APA reference
        Use the readings to support your arguments

Readings:

Guiding Questions

        How are spirituality and religion defined?
        What is the premise of Fowler’s and Wilber’s theories on human spirituality?
        What role does a client’s religious or spiritual history play on their well-being?

Readings

        Textbook: Dimensions of Human Behavior: Person and Environment
            Chapter 6

        Article 1: Killing the Messenger: Religious Black Gay Mens Neutralization of Anti-Gay Religious Messages
           
        Article 2: Experiences of Muslims in Four Western Countries Post-9/11
           
        Textbook: Handbook of Child Psychology, By Oser, Scarlett, and Bucher, Pages 942-998