Abstract.
This study explored the attitudes of social workers towards spiritual and religious issues in practice, using in‐depth interviews of 56 Utah practitioners. Several key themes emerged: (1) spirituality and religiosity are different issues, but both should be considered in working with all client populations; (2) formal training for social workers currently does not provide the knowledge and skills that are required for practice with spiritual and religious issues; (3) social workers need to understand their own beliefs and biases about spirituality and religiosity and tend to their own spiritual growth; and (4) spiritual and religious content can be integrated into existing social work curricula.