Spiritual and

Jamaal King
KAPLAN UNIVERSITY HW420

Psychological
Assessment
and
Questionnaire
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Spiritual and Psychological Assessment Questionnaire

My interview consists of 10 questions to create a spiritual and psychological health

development plan to aid a person in their spiritual and psychological development.

Question one: What does spirituality mean to you? Why? This is a baseline question

that can deliver surface viewpoints when it comes to spirituality, how they define and

recognize its significance. Question two: Why is social approval important or not

important in your spiritual development? This question is to gauge the influence or lack

thereof when it comes to social inclinations. This is important because spirituality comes

from within, therefore should not be a product of anyone but self. Question three: How

do you incorporate spirituality in your daily life and future plans? Upon understanding a

general sense of their spirituality and what it means to them, this question is to gauge

how they make use of it and how it effects them moving forward in life. Question four:

What does love mean to you? Love is the universal solvent that radiates what spirituality

is all about, to understand what this emotion means to them is to understand the

spiritual relationship with self and the environment. Question five: How do you want to

be remembered? This question implies the connection to spiritual awareness and the

legacy they want to leave behind that also implies what is important to them while they

are alive and when they interact with people. Question six: What inspires you and your

spiritual growth? This question is simply to gauge the role models in ones life,

spiritually. Question seven: Explain how your mind, body, and soul are connected. This

is a loaded inclination to gauge the outlook about self and how breaking it down into

parts and then seeing how they are connected. It offers a deeper introspective look into

self and the spiritual bonds interconnecting. Question eight: What is your deepest fear
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or fears? This question aims towards the psychological aspect of self. Fears are

hindrances and stressors, this can take its toll on the spiritual self as well, as spirituality

should lessen fears and stressors, in exchange for more positive life aspects. Question

nine: Define spiritual wellness, physical wellness, mental wellness, and emotional

wellness. This inclines a look into the wellness centers of self; what it means for each

part to be healthy and what it may take to achieve health opposed to dis-health.

Wellness is spiritual, spiritual is wellness, this is important as it sets the stage of healthy

thinking based on the answers of the interviewee. Question 10: Who are you? I love this

question, because most people dont really think so hard about who they are on all

levels. We tend to define ourselves based on superficial things, but to look internally to

the nuances that really make you unique is a question that really digs to the spirit base

of a person. The first nine questions aid in the thought of self, perhaps to uncover

somethings they didnt even know about themselves, putting it all together in answering

the last question is just a perfect scenario gauge the progress of self spiritually and

psychologically.

1. What does spirituality mean to you? Why?

Spirituality is what happens to you when you die? What is the meaning of life?

Religion is not spirituality nor vice versa. Because purpose is the most important

thing in life.
2. Why is social approval important or not important in your spiritual development?
It is not important because it is your own life journey. One shouldnt be bogged

down by the familiar traditions of family members and peers.

3. How do you incorporate spirituality in your daily life and future plans?
In my daily life I self-reflect multiple time during the day about work, family, and

any other ventures on a day to day. Self-reflection is the most important thing in
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my spirituality. I hope to gain more and become more in tune with my spiritual

self.
4. What does love mean to you?
Shy thought. love is everything, literally! Inquires do I feel the same? Smiling.

Life isnt worth living without love. Family, spouse, children, love is the most

abundant and critical part of life and living. It is the most plentiful emotion.
5. How do you want to be remembered?
In order to answer this question, I need to specify who or whomI want to be

remembered by my love ones for how I made them feel, not for worldly

accomplishments, those are generic inclinations. I want my funeral to be

memories of how I made people smile. I want to be remember by those people

whose heart that I touched, and I want to be remembered with a smile. For those

who did not take out the time to know me, or even about my true self (because

that takes actual work and time to know someone) then I am not so concerned

with how you remember me; you cant remember something you never knew or

understood
6. What inspires you and your spiritual growth?
My husband inspires me. Prior to meeting him, I didnt have much of an opinion

about these things, because I went with the flow and blindly followed the masses,

toeing the line of spirituality because it was not invisible the sight it. My husband

has led me to a mental place to really question and observe mindfully about my

beliefs. I like the feeling, it is freeing. I feel I am finally in control of my fate and

direction. I was never asked the questions he asked me, and it opened my mind

to a new wave of thought, my trust in him helped me want to be dig deeper into

the whys?
7. Explain how your mind, body, and soul are connected.
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My body is just my vessel, it is tangible, is the least important of the three. Mind

and soul are connected in a way like it sets as the overseer of the connection,

the body executes what the mind wants. The soul is the what holds them all

together, yet is a separate entity that would exist without the mind and body. The

soul is infinite, much like energy in science.

8. What is your deepest fear or fears?
I not so much fearful as I am anxious. I dont fear necessarily anything but the

thoughts of things that create anxiety is something closest to fear. The fear of

unknowing. And I dont like bugs.

9. Define spiritual wellness, physical wellness, mental wellness, and emotional

wellness.
Spiritual wellness would mean you have a healthy spirit, by feeding it whatever it

needs to be strong and satisfied. You know exactly how you feel, think, and know

when it comes to your spiritual self. Physical wellness means to be in shape, eat

right, overall healthy, healthy Body mass index, free of diseases and ailments.

Mental wellness means that psychologically speaking you are of sound mind and

comprehensive in your consciousness. Emotional wellness is a misunderstood

phenomenon because it is a varied definition person to person, but knowing how

you feel when you feel it and being able to convey that emotion for others to

comprehend it.
10. Who are you?
I am a phenomenal woman. There are so many aspects to my personality that it

is difficult to apply just a few adjectives to it. I am an anxious new mother, an

unconditional loving daughter, a caring devoted wife, and many other hats. But I

think most importantly, I am happy. It took me a long time to be able to say that
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but thats exactly who I am. Not all day every day, but every day. If I had to

encapsulate what I am it would be just that.

After the interview, I think I choose a really good base set of questions that

engage the spiritual and psychological self of the individual. This was a bit easier

to create since I engage in conversations like this all the time and inquire about

people on a level they arent used to. If I had to change anything I would add

more questions, and they would be a bit more aptitude like and personality

based. There are many psychological questionnaires that dissect the mental of

people accurately, I would definitely include something like that, to avoid the

generic and what sounds good type of responses. Otherwise this was a fun

exercise and I learned much about a persons way of thinking and their

application to their way of thought as well.

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