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Nurturing the Spiritual Development of Youth Through Professional Helping: Emerging Issues in International Perspective

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The articles in this special issue of Currents derive from the Second Biennial World Conference on Positive Youth Development and Welfare through Strengths and Spirituality: Views from Korea and America, held at the University of Kansas in 2008. This editorial introduction provides background to the articles and an overview of their contributions. It explains the international context of the recent movement to address youth spirituality, including guiding values for spiritually sensitive social work, definitions of spirituality and religion, and recent historical trends. Finally, potential hazards for spiritual development of youth are highlighted related to neglect of spirituality by helping professionals, maltreatment by religious and spiritual authorities, constriction of spiritually gifted youth, and oppression of youth members of religious and nonreligious minorities.
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This is the Editorial Introduction to Volume 9, Number 1: Special Issue on Spirituality and Positive Youth Development.
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2010-03-13
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aculty of Social Work, University of Calgary
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Canda, E. R. (2010). Nurturing the spiritual development of youth through professional helping: Emerging issues in international perspective. Currents: New Scholarship in the Human Services, 9(1), 1-14.
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