Spiritual Assessment

Anoka-Ramsey College

PPT #8 ©Valerie Lis 2012

SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT

• This chapter details a systematic approach to the spiritual care process, along with strategies for preparing a spiritual assessment.

Here are a few concepts from the chapter:

• A systematic approach to spiritual care includes the following steps:

1) Assess the individual’s spiritual status and identify specific needs.

2) Plan mutually agreed-upon goals for action.

3) Intervene and implement the planned actions.

4) Evaluate the individual’s status after the intervention.

• Models for spiritual assessment include:–The Informal Assessment–The Formal Assessment

» Howden’s Spirituality Assessment Scale» The FICA Model» Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale» Spiritual Assessment Tool» CSI-MEMO Spiritual History» Burkhardt’s Care and Nurture of the Spiritual Self-Personal

Reflective Assessment» The ACP-ASIM Spiritual History

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SPIRITUAL DIAGNOSES

• Spiritual distress

• Spiritual pain

• Spiritual alienation

• Spiritual anxiety

• Spiritual guilt

• Spiritual anger

• Spiritual loss

• Spiritual despair

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All suffering prepares the soul for vision. ~Martin Smith

What is to give light must endure burning. ~Victor Frankl

SPIRITUAL DISTRESS

Suffering is like the Grand Canyon.

If we said, “It’s so pretty, we must protect it from wind and storm,” it would never be sculpted by the wind and we would never appreciate its beauty.

If you don’t suffer, you don’t grow.

You must experience sorrow, loss, tears, and anger.

Every time you go through those, you grow, you progress.

There is nothing more important in life for your progress.

No one will make progress if everything is presented to him on a silver platter.

No one.

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~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

OPRAH’s FORGIVENESS AHA! MOMENT

• After 25 years and more than 30,000 guests, it was one man's definition of forgiveness that changed Oprah's life. Watch Oprah's aha! moment and listen to her reflect on what it truly means to forgive.

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http://youtu.be/Rwcp_oEIwnU

DISCUSSION BOARD

• For this week’s Discussion Board, you will download and complete the "Forgiveness and Acceptance Scale” from the Content area of D2L. After totaling your scores, you will answer the following questions:

– Self-forgiveness:

• In which of the 5 categories did you score the lowest? Were you surprised at your score? Do you have examples of where this has been a challenge? How can a problem with Self-Forgiveness be resolved?

– Forgiveness of others:

• In which of the 5 categories did you score the lowest? Were you surprised at your score? Do you have examples of where this has been a challenge? How can a problem with Forgiving Others be resolved?

• Remember to place two more comments in response to other students’ posts.

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WIKI ACTIVITY:PERSONAL SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT

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• Complete a personal

assessment by answering

questions on pages 152-153 in

Young and Koopsen under the

sub-heading “Performing a

Spiritual Self-Assessment.”

• Submit all of your answers into

D2L.

• Choose your answer to three

questions (your choice) and

submit to the Group WIKI.

• Post three thoughtful comments

to your classmates’ submissions.

REMINDERS. . .

• Be sure to complete the Quiz, the Discussion Board, and the Group WIKI activity this week.

• Remember: To receive credit for Discussion Boards and WIKIs, you must comment on other students’ posts.

• The due date for all assignments from the seventh module is October 14.

• The due date for all assignments from the eighth module is October 21.

• If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. Thanks!

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We’ve longed to see the roses, but never felt the thorns, and bought our pretty crowns, but never paid the price.

~Martin Smith

~H.C. Moolenburgh

Pearls are created from the oyster’s pain. They are the valuable tears of the sea. Suffering is meaningful if man learns to answer this not with the question “why” uttered in despair, but with the word “wherefore,” uttered with faith… The word “why” looks back; the word “wherefore” leads to the future and can even give meaning to the most severe suffering.

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