There is a broad consensus among care professionals about the importance of the attention to non-material needs. In the care of people with disabilities, these issues acquire a special relevance (Swinton, 2002, Clarke & Cardman, 2002, Kaye & Raghavan, 2002. Spirituality helps to face complex situations and has a direct relationship with well-being and resilience.In the health and social professions, this internal dimension must be kept in mind, either from the point of view of giving meaning to life, or in religious terms. Residential homes, where people with intellectual disabilities live, are ideal places to take care of these aspects. A questionnaire was sent to 172 professionals and the data were triangulated with interviews with family members, professionals and people with intellectual disabilities. The results show that people with disabilities who live in residences make decisions about their Necesidades no materiales en el cuidado de personas con discapacidad intelectual en residenciasNon-material needs in the care of people with intellectual disabilities in residences Necessidades não materiais no cuidado de pessoas com deficiência intelectual em residências

La espiritualidad es una dimensión de la persona que está relacionada con la búsqueda de sentido e íntimamente vinculada a las decisiones tomadas a lo largo de la vida. Desde una visión antropológica que tiene en cuenta la dimensión espiritual de la persona, y a partir de un enfoque cualitativo, se realizaron diecisiete entrevistas semidirigidas a personas usuarias de diversos albergues en los que se acompaña a personas sin hogar de la Orden Hospitalaria San Juan de Dios, Aragón. La identidad, el arraigo, la trascendencia, la valoración de la realidad y la toma de decisiones emergen como categorías visibles y significativas que nos acercan a la dimensión espiritual a partir de un lenguaje no religioso basado en experiencias vitales. Los resultados proporcionan una comprensión amplia de dicha dimensión, que hace posible un tipo de intervención que tiene en cuenta las capacidades espirituales de la persona. Se ha generado una guía para la conducción y el análisis de entrevistas biográficas que puede ayudar a los profesionales a ampliar su mirada sobre la espiritualidad humana, así como a captar su potencial y su relación intrínseca con las decisiones que, junto a factores extrínsecos, van definiendo la dirección vital de cada persona.

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Educating interiority is a fundamental aspect of development and is of the utmost importance in childhood and adolescence because it helps to develop the faculties that allow them to experience life to the fullest. In this project, we aimed to analyze the difficulties that social workers perceive when educating interiority and identify the main strategies that they use to face these difficulties. A mixed questionnaire, with quantitative and qualitative data, was designed to this end, and answered by 128 professionals who work with children and teenagers. The results showed that educators have restrictive beliefs regarding difficulties, which do not always correspond to the real difficulties, which limit their attempts to educate the interior dimension. The difficulties found include those related to the characteristics of the group of children and teenagers and others linked to the low level of education on interiority, the absence of a personal inner life, and the lack of methodological tools to approach this matter.

La construcción de narrativas personales en el proceso de aprendizaje de las profesiones sociales Building personal narratives in the learning process of social professions