My Spiritual Map
Summary Drawing out my spiritual map helped me in better understanding and laying out significant events in my life that influenced my spirituality. My spiritual journey started when I was born, specifically when I was baptized at a few months old. When I became old enough, I began to attend Sunday School every week and in the summertime, I would attend Vacation Bible School (VBS). In my home church, once a child reaches the third grade, he or she leads the congregation in the Apostles Creed with the rest of his or her class and then receives a Bible with his or her name engraved on the front. In the January of fifth grade, I professed my faith, which was the real beginning of my faith journey. In my home church, one can profess his or her
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It lays out significant life events and provides meaning to those events. A lot of insight as to how the client perceives spirituality is gained. The tool allows a person to be able to reflect on influential or hurtful situations related to his or her spirituality. After the spiritual map is completed, the client can step back and recognize the highs and the lows in his or her spiritual journey.
A weakness of spiritual mapping is that not every client may believe that he or she has a spirituality. When this is the situation, utilizing a spiritual mapping tool would likely not benefit the client. If the client has only had negative spiritual experiences, the tool might be more harmful than helpful. Another weakness is that there is not a specific guideline to how the tool can be completed or utilized. Though there are likely assessment tools that are more structured, this particular one does not provide a lot of guidance as to how the assessment should be …show more content…
I realized that some of the scores I received should either be higher or lower to be in the appropriate range, regarding my compassion satisfaction, burnout level, and secondary traumatic stress. It was easy for me to come to the conclusion that I may need to be making some changes in my life, even though the assessment may not be 100% accurate. For example, if I am only starting my internship now and my burnout score is already average, I am going to have some major problems once I am practicing in the profession. Therefore, I will have to make the appropriate steps to decrease my burnout
It lays out significant life events and provides meaning to those events. A lot of insight as to how the client perceives spirituality is gained. The tool allows a person to be able to reflect on influential or hurtful situations related to his or her spirituality. After the spiritual map is completed, the client can step back and recognize the highs and the lows in his or her spiritual journey.
A weakness of spiritual mapping is that not every client may believe that he or she has a spirituality. When this is the situation, utilizing a spiritual mapping tool would likely not benefit the client. If the client has only had negative spiritual experiences, the tool might be more harmful than helpful. Another weakness is that there is not a specific guideline to how the tool can be completed or utilized. Though there are likely assessment tools that are more structured, this particular one does not provide a lot of guidance as to how the assessment should be …show more content…
I realized that some of the scores I received should either be higher or lower to be in the appropriate range, regarding my compassion satisfaction, burnout level, and secondary traumatic stress. It was easy for me to come to the conclusion that I may need to be making some changes in my life, even though the assessment may not be 100% accurate. For example, if I am only starting my internship now and my burnout score is already average, I am going to have some major problems once I am practicing in the profession. Therefore, I will have to make the appropriate steps to decrease my burnout