Religious harm and/or trauma can hinder practitioner ability to effectively address the needs of religious and/or spiritual clients. This presentation describes ways practicum students experienced religious harm/trauma, how it influenced their experience of clients, how supervisors responded to these issues, and implications for practicum students and supervisors.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
Participants will be able to identify key features of religious trauma and list ways that religious harm and/or trauma impacted the interviewees.
Participants will be able to describe how the religious harm and/or trauma of social work students in this sample influenced their experience of their clients religious and/or spiritual positionalities.
Participants will be able to identify specific practicum instructor behaviors that helped students address religious harm and/or trauma to support their practice with religious and/or spiritual clients.
