Spirituality, Meaning Making, and Faith-Based Practice

Catalog description

This is the required core course for the Faith-Based Track. It is also open to all students as a general elective. The course offers an advanced examination of faith-based practice and an awareness of the transformative capacities interwoven within the complex layers of relationships functioning within faith-based environments. Students will be invited to examine self, social emotional systems, ritualistic understandings that underlie many faith-based environments, and new ways to organize practices of care and compassion through faith-based treatment options addressing addictions, child welfare, clinical mental health, and social service leadership. Students will be prepared for the unique work that lies ahead by examining the emotional systems that exist within faith-based environments while identifying, evaluating, and assessing the role of faith in community and the capacity to develop social work and religious partnerships towards empowering transformative well-being. The course is also open to students from other disciplines.