This paper examines the role of spirituality in a recovery context by drawing on qualitative research conducted at a residential recovery community in North Wales, United Kingdom. The study aimed to examine perceptions of spirituality among exprisoners and people identifying as in recovery from addiction. The researchers explored ideas of “spiritual coping” and “spiritual wellbeing” in terms of meaning, purpose, connectedness, forgiveness, and peace in addiction treatment programs influenced by 12-Step models, for instance, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Also, this paper focuses on both spiritual counseling services shaped by pre-determined meanings and values and secondly, on individuals’ perceptions about spirituality through the language of desires, needs, and expectations. The data for this research produced from five semi-structured interviews with male individuals who had recovered from their addiction and had practised some custodial life. To discover the common context of different perceptions of the language spirituality, the data was coded by the first and second loop encodings from the data analysis methods used. The central schemes that appear as “Spirituality in Experiences, Spirituality in Values, Spirituality as Meaning/Purpose of Life, Spirituality as Attachment, Spirituality as Coping Mechanism” have been evaluated within the framework of the concept of spirituality. In the conclusion of this study, it was observed that spirituality was used as a coping mechanism for buffering the sensation of hopelessness and powerlessness often experienced by people in active addiction.

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In determining the attitudes and behaviours that people will take in the face of various events and phenomena, they take into account their needs and expectations, as well as the needs and expectations of the groups they belong to and the society they live in. This situation is closely related to the determination of the needs and expectations of the students, the regulation of their educational status, in other words, the regulation of the external conditions that will provide their learning experiences. These needs and expectations form the basis of value education systems as well as educational situations. This study focuses on the needs and expectations of the child himself, the group / groups he belongs to and the society he lives in in determining the values within the framework of content preparation studies in education. The problem of this study, which is based on literature review and document review, is it possible to have a holistic understanding and approach that will enable children to develop a common understanding of value within the framework of the parameters mentioned above. Within the field, the studies on the relationship between the needs and expectations of the aforementioned stakeholders and value development are limited; In addition, the lack of sufficient awareness, depth and level of knowledge about the relationship in question is one of the issues that make this study important.