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Kenny Gall, center, Leswood junior, leads Eden Blackwood, left, Fairway senior, and Courtney Watkins, Kansas City, Mo., senior, up the steps behind Fraser Hall. The three were taking part in a trust exercise yesterday as part of a theater and film improvisation class.
Course extends sensitivity
Welfare students study religion effects on clients
By Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
Edward Canda reminded his students that some class periods would begin with a few moments of silence. However, this time, they would listen to music.
Canda, assistant professor of social welfare, uses this technique to teach a new social welfare class to graduating students in the School of Social Welfare.
He said he used silence and music in Social Welfare 855 because the class involved both intellectual learning and self-learning.
"This time is just to take a few moments to reflect on who we are and why we're here." Canda said.
He said the purpose of the class was to help students deal with future clients in a spiritually sensitive manner. He focuses on the social worker and client's differences in religion and religious experiences.
Canda said this semester was the first time the University offered a social welfare class that dealt with
spirituality.
The class focuses on Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Shamanism and Existentialism; five religious orientations that social workers in the United States would most often come into contact with, he said. In teaching these religions, Canda hopes to show students how to deal with a religion and its influence on the patient.
The course shows social welfare students how to deal with a religion and its influences on the patient.
"Social work, as a profession, is dedicated to assisting people overcoming experiences of suffering and oppression," he said. "So we deal with a very wide range of helping activities and people."
Edith Black, assistant dean of the school, said the class was popular and had filled almost immediately after being offered.
"We expanded by two or three more students because there were so many disappointed." Black said.
Twenty-five students are enrolled
in the class.
Foshag, a social worker, said she would use words to better underlie her beliefs.
Ellen Foshag, Pittsburg graduate student, said she took the course because she wanted to learn more about religion and spirituality in regard to her work.
An example she gave was a patient who took the Bible literally.
"He read in the Bible 'an eye for and eye, a tooth for a tooth," she said. "He actually has poked his eyes."
Canda said social work originated from religious roots.
Conrad McNeer, a family therapist and an Episcopal minister, said he took the class because he thought it would help him work with people.
Canda first began writing articles on spirituality in 1986. He said he did it to help define spirituality and to implement it in practice.
"I have an obvious interest in this particular area and its connection between both of my professions," he said.
McNeer said no one in the class appeared offended by the controver-
"It's a balanced approach to something that could be a very emotional topic," he said.
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