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- Title
Family Circles: Assessing Family and Spiritual Connections with Military Clients.
- Authors
Freeman, Dexter R.
- Abstract
This article describes the diversity of spiritual and religious resources that can support and often compel military service members to pursue a career in the military. Moreover, this paper exposes the reader to a little known assessment instrument called the family circle. This instrument enables clients and social workers to identify some of the spiritual and dynamic motivations for military service members who choose to defend America's freedom. This article also discusses the various components of the military culture that may contribute to spiritual wholeness for service members. Finally, a case vignette is provided as a step-by-step description of how social workers can conduct a family circle interview to assess community, family, spiritual, and religious resources with military clients.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS life of military personnel; FAMILY relationships of military personnel; SOCIAL workers; MILITARY culture; SPIRITUAL formation
- Publication
Social Work & Christianity, 2016, Vol 43, Issue 3, p28
- ISSN
0737-5778
- Publication type
Article