To prepare for this Assignment, review this week’s media about Eboni Logan’s visit with her school social worker.

a 2- to 4-page paper that answers the following questions:

As Eboni’s social worker, would you include spirituality and religion in your initial assessment? Why or why not?

What strategies can you use to ensure that your personal values will not influence your practice with Eboni?

How would you address the crisis that Eboni is experiencing?

A spiritual belief holds that there is a transcendent, spiritual dimension to life and that the universe is unfolding in a meaningful,
purposeful way. Spirituality is the belief that people can connect with something that is beyond mind and matter. Decker (1993)
defines spirituality as the “search for purpose and meaning involving both transcendence (the experience of existence beyond the
physical/psychological) and immanence (the discovery of the transcendent in the physical/psychological), regardless of religious
affiliation.” “To be spiritual is to stand in a relationship to another based on matters of the soul. Spirituality is the way we make
meaning out of our lives. It is the recognition of the presence of Spirit within us and a cultivation of a style of life consistent with that
presence. Spirituality provides a perspective to foster purpose, meaning and direction to live. It may find expression through religion”
(Carson, 1989).
In the Protestant tradition, spirituality is usually referred to as devotion or piety. Roman Catholicism thinks of spirituality as one’s
distinctive way of following Christ, communing with God, and growing in the life of faith. Spirituality in the modern Orthodox
tradition has come to refer to a person’s life and activity in relationship to God,

Epistemologically, the course assumes that there are many avenues to human knowing. As such, this course explores
various scientific approaches to studying the relationship between spirituality, religion and health making a reductionist
assumption that scientific methodologies are superior to critical philosophic ways of knowing, feeling and judging.
Contributing to our understanding of religion and spirituality are institutional religious beliefs imbedded in historical
oral traditions, written scriptures, liturgical rituals, organized works of charity, and legal authority structures. Finally,
the course explores how individuals view spirituality and religion as they move through the life cycle, thereby integrating
theories of human development.