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Publication Date: September 1997
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Dana Rawitch
Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions
Keywords: Social Services; Jewish Identification; Mental Health
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Jewish social work involves creating not only a safe space for the client to heal but also a holy space, and the most direct way to do so is to use sacred text in a clinical therapy setting. By exploring clients' Jewish identity and using Jewish texts where appropriate, the clinician may help them move beyond a certain point of choice—Nekudat Habchira—which they have been unable to move beyond previously.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.74 no.1, Fall 1997.