Presenters: Ann Marie Yamada, PhD and Adrienne Cedro Hament, MSW. Over a decade of work has supported the development of promising practices to meet the spiritual beliefs, needs, and practices of clients and their families, and enhance the capacity for clinicians to use their own practices of meditation, prayer and other forms of spiritual engagement to support therapy. This presentation will highlight the value of integrating a broadly conceptualized notion of spirituality in clinical practice. Participants will be introduced to assessment tools to elicit clients’ religious and spiritual beliefs and practices. Presenters will encourage participants to challenge their ethical and legal misconceptions that limit their recognition of the value of spiritual practices such as mindfulness meditation for working with persons from diverse multicultural communities.