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Record W4412394142 · doi:10.1080/13617672.2025.2523816

Religion and spirituality in social work education and practice: a review and thematic analysis

2025· review· en· W4412394142 on OpenAlex
Jordan Babando, Stephanie Laing, Danika A. Quesnel, John R. Graham, Arielle Lomness

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Beliefs and Values · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan CampusKelowna General HospitalUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of TorontoLaurentian University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSpiritualityThematic mapThematic analysisWork (physics)SociologySocial workEngineering ethicsPedagogySocial sciencePolitical scienceQualitative researchMedicineEngineeringGeographyAlternative medicine

Abstract

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English language social work scholarship on religion is examined from 2008 to 2021. Of the 255 peer-reviewed journal articles, most are by American first authors and on topics relating to Christianity, followed by Islam and Judaism. Thematically, the scholarship explores religious sensitivity, cultural inclusion, and practice; understanding religious philosophies and teachings to practice effectively; secularisation and the profession; and incorporating mindfulness and related ways of knowing into social work practice. Trends from the pre-2009 period are congruent with current trends, providing a reassuring continuity in the research. However, greater emphasis is now placed on specific tactics of religiously informed intervention and the growing place of secularisation.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.924
Threshold uncertainty score0.649

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.077
GPT teacher head0.486
Teacher spread0.410 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it