ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the discussion of spirituality within social work which ignores or avoids the broader spirituality literature will also be limited. It emerges in a time and place in which there is considerable interest in understandings of spirituality in the community, but in many social work settings there is an antipathy towards formal religions and religious language. The book considers some particular topics, rituals, creativity, place and belonging, which may be used to initiate discussions with service users in a range of contexts which have the potential to tap into the realm of the spiritual. Issues of belonging, ritual, place and even creativity are all potentially crucial in situations when an individual is being placed in some form of residential care. Spiritual care is as much a way of being as a way of acting.
