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The current work explores the conceptualizations and differences regarding religion and spirituality and their integration into social work to consider the holistic human functioning. The article describes the challenges that social workers have to face in their interactions with clients in order to include spirituality as part of their assessments. Special consideration is provided to the ways in which practices can be detrimental to clients and questions for analysis are provided to explore the role of spirituality with clients and social workers themselves.