The Spiritual Competence Scale: A New Instrument for Assessing Spiritual Competence at the Programmatic Level  

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Hodge, David R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Research on Social Work Practice vol. 17 no. 2 (Mar. 2007), page 287-295.
Topik: spiritual competence; spirituality; religion; cultural sensitivity; cultural competence
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Cultural competence has become a central social work tenet enshrined in the profession’s ethical and educational standards. Few measures of cultural competence exist, however, in spite of an increasing array of religious, ethnic, and racial groups in U.S. society. This article develops a new measure to assess cultural competence among one family of cultural groups—spiritual and religious cultures. More specifically, this scale measures respondents’ perceptions of spiritual competence at the programmatic level. To develop the eight-item scale, a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with a random sample of graduate students affiliated with the National Association of Social Workers (N = 303). The results suggest that the scale is a valid and reliable measure of the values dimension of spiritual competence. Although the instrument is designed to assess levels of competence in educational programs, with modification it may also be possible to use the scale in agency settings and perhaps for individual self-assessment as well.

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