Spiritual Assessment
All good treatment begins with a thorough and effective assessment. This principle is nowhere more true than in the arena of spiritual counseling.
Our assessment will focus on your spiritual needs. All of us humans have spiritual needs, just as we have physical needs (food, water, sleep), psychological needs (self esteem, motivation, love) and social needs (belonging, community). If we do not get our physical needs met or fulfill them in toxic ways, we will be physically sick. If we do not get our psychological and social needs met on a chronic basis or get them met in toxic ways, we will get psychologically sick. So too, if we do not get our spiritual needs met or get them met in unhealthy ways, we will get spiritually sick, which in turn may influence our psychological and even physical health.
So in our assessment, we ask the questions:
- What are your spiritual needs?
- How strong are your various spiritual needs?
- Are you getting your spiritual needs fulfilled now? Is that working for you?
- What blocks you from getting your spiritual needs met?
- How can you get your spiritual needs fulfilled in healthy or healthier ways?
We are not here to judge or evaluate your spirituality, religion or beliefs, but to help you self assess.
We are not here to impose, preach or teach our spirituality, religion or beliefs, but to help you access the resources of your faith tradition or find a faith tradition that works for you.
In addition, we have three other ways or instruments that we use to assess your spirituality. They are:
- A religious or Spiritual History, a verbal interview with the spiritual counselor.
- The use of a Self Forgiveness Scale, a pencil and paper self assessment form that helps measure how successfully you accept yourself.
- The use of a Spiritual Assessment Survey, a pencil and paper self assessment form that measures you satisfaction according to 15 common spiritual needs.
These instruments will help us assess your spiritual needs and together, help us both develop a treatment plan that will facilitate spiritual maturity.
We look forward to working with you!
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