The final assignment for this course is designed to give you the opportunity to reflect on your experiences in the course and their application to clinical practice. To complete the assignment, look over the Daily Spiritual Experience Scales that you completed in Sessions 1, 5, and 7, review your notes related to your experiences with the spiritual discipline practice exercises in Sessions 2 and 3, and reflect on your personal practice of the different spiritual disciplines during this course and their clinical application. Then, write a seven- to eight-page reflection paper based on those things. Carefully consider the following to frame your thoughts as you write:
Reflect on your experiences in participating in spiritual disciplines in this course, both personally and in the spiritual discipline practice exercises.
Consider your own growth during the course in connection with participating in the spiritual disciplines of prayer, mediation, and silence and solitude (i.e., the personal spiritual retreat).
What changes (if any) have you noticed in yourself after going through the exercises in this course? In your paper, respond to the following:
How did these changes show up in your Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES) results?
Have you grown in your faith? Has your faith dried up? Explain.
Are there areas or specific spiritual disciplines you need to focus on so as to draw closer to God? How would focusing on those areas or disciplines aid your work as a counselor?
How might giving the DSES assessment be of benefit to clients over time?
How might you use the DSES assessment or a similar assessment/practice in a counseling session?
How do you envision using the spiritual disciplines for spiritually struggling clients? Be specific.
What limitations do you see in the application of the spiritual disciplines to the counseling session?
In what ways would the exercises you experienced in this course (and the spiritual disciplines in general) help hurting clients?
Incorporate at least one (1) of the Scripture passages in the FICIP readings throughout the course into your paper and discuss how they support your claims.
