TENDING THE SOUL: A TEACHING MODULE FOR INCREASING STUDENT SENSITIVITY TO THE SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF OLDER ADULTS Kathryn S. Collins University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Rich Furman Department of Social Work, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Ruthanne Hackman University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Kim Bender University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA Elizabeth A. Bruce University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA Address correspondence to Kathryn S. Collins, University of Maryland School of Social Work, 525 W. Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21230. E-mail: kcollins@ssw.umaryland.edu Educational Gerontology , 33: 707–722, 2007 Copyright # Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 0360-1277 print=1521-0472 online DOI: 10.1080/03601270701364420