SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT

A. RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND AND BELIEFS

1. What religion did your family practice when you were growing up?
2. How religious were your parents?
3. Do you practice a religion currently?
4. Do you believe in God or a higher power?
5. What have been important experiences and thoughts about God/Higher Power?
6. How would you describe God/Higher Power? personal or impersonal? loving or stern?

B. SPIRITUAL MEANING AND VALUES

1. Do you follow any spiritual path or practice (e.g., meditation, yoga, chanting)?
2. What significant spiritual experiences have you had (e.g., mystical experience, near-death experience, 12-step spirituality, drug-induced, dreams)?

C. PRAYER EXPERIENCES

1. Do you pray? When? In what way(s)?
2. How has prayer worked in your life?

10 minutes

QUIZ EXERCISE Religious and Spiritual History

Answer sections B SPIRITUAL MEANING AND VALUES and C PRAYER EXPERIENCES.

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