How you would assess the client with regard to spiritual or religious history? Answer the following questions: What questions would you ask the client? How would you feel, and what would you do if the client's beliefs were vastly different from your own? What strategies would you employ to manage potential bias?

Naomi's Health Crisis. Naomi is a 42-year-old mother of three children who are 10, 7, and 3 years old. Naomi discovered a lump in her breast a couple of weeks ago, and she and her husband, David, have been anxiously awaiting news regarding test results. When the diagnosis of cancer finally comes, they are both stunned and frightened but pull themselves together for the sake of the children. Naomi begins the long journey of doctors, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatments while simultaneously trying to maintain family life and a part-time job as best she can. David takes on new duties as a more active parent and homemaker while still going to his full-time job. He struggles with his own fears and anger about what is happening.

Naomi and David are members of Temple Shalom, a local Reform Jewish congregation, which they joined after their first child was born. When they were growing up, Naomi's family were members of a Reform congregation, whereas David's family expressed their Jewish heritage in more secular and cultural terms, gathering annually for a Passover Seder but not attending services (except occasionally on Yom Kippur). Naomi had not regularly attended services after her bat mitzvah, but both she and David decided that they wanted to be part of a spiritual community for their children. They had heard good things about the temple in their neighborhood and decided to explore it. They liked its open, welcoming atmosphere; its liberal viewpoints on social issues; and its active engagement in social action in the community. They both enjoy the weekly connection with other adults and are happy with the religious classes that their children attend. Recently, Naomi and David have been engaged in weekly Shabbat Torah study sessions to deepen their understanding of Jewish sacred texts. Now, in the midst of the confusion of their health crisis, they are beginning to reach out to Rabbi Shapiro and some of the people they have met at temple and to explore the Jewish Healing Network they have read about.