Invoking the spirit: A model for incorporating the spiritual dimension of human functioning into social work practice

The article reports on a collaborative project undertaken by Hunter College School of Social Work and an agency using a psychospiritual method to stabilize and enhance family wellbeing. The purpose of the collaborative was to document the psychospiritual method and develop an M.S.W. student unit to educate, train and recruit African American and Latino students committed to providing ethnically relevant and spiritually sensitive services to individuals, families and groups. The author identifies six practice principles informing psychospiritual practice and a training sequence for preparing workers for psychospiritual practice.