In the first of a new series on how religion and culture can impact on practice, journalist Lauren Hoffman looks at Judaism. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Continuing our series on how religion and culture can impact on practice, Professor Eleanor Nesbitt looks at Sikhism. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Spirituality in Clinical Practice (Oct 3, 2019). DOI:10.1037/scp0000207
Research and theory suggest that spirituality and religiosity may be particularly salient components of the lives of those suffering with mental illness. Despite the significant implications of spiritual struggles for health and well-being, individuals with severe mental illness may receive little help for their struggles. To the contrary, they may experience alienation from spiritual communities as a result of stigma associated with their illness or associated spiritual struggle. Further, there is a lack of empirically validated spiritually sensitive psychological interventions to help this population address their spiritual struggles. Winding Road is a 9-session, spiritually integrated intervention designed to address spiritual struggles in a religiously diverse sample of adults with mental illness.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Spirituality in Clinical Practice (May 21, 2018): No Pagination Specified.
This article reports two qualitative studies that explored how religion and spirituality (R/S) influenced the treatment and recovery process of patients with eating disorder.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Spirituality in Clinical Practice3.1 (Mar 2016): 5-9.
Are religion and spirituality of relevance in psychotherapy? Reasons why they are are addressed and information is shared to illustrate their great importance in many clients’ lives and why they are relevant to the psychotherapy process. Recommendations regarding how psychotherapists advertise their services, informed consent, clinical competence, cultural competence, and boundaries and multiple relationships are provided so that psychotherapists may fulfill their ethical obligations to provide clients with the most relevant and efficacious treatment possible. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Vol. 11, Iss. 1, (Feb 2019): 22-31. DOI:10.1037/rel0000140
The Multi-Faith Religious Support Scale-Adolescent (MFRSS-A) was psychometrically assessed with Christian adolescents (N = 500, ages 12–19). Then, relationships between religious support and emotional functioning were examined. The MFRSS-A was adapted from the adult scale (MFRSS; Bjorck & Maslim, 2011). It includes 3 subscales respectively measuring support from adolescents’ God concept, their religious leaders, and peers sharing their faith.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Findings In a multigenerational longitudinal observational study (112 parents and 214 offspring), parent belief in the high importance of religion was associated with an approximately 80% decrease in risk in suicidal ideation/attempts in their offspring compared with parents who reported religion as unimportant. The association of parental belief was independent of the offspring’s own belief in the importance of religion and other parental risk factors and was statistically significant.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (Feb 11, 2019). DOI:10.1037/rel0000254
Urban women of color are at risk of experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Both IPV and HIV are individually associated with negative psychological outcomes and spirituality has sometimes been linked to positive outcomes in the context of these adversities. Guided by syndemic theory, 155 women who were exposed to recent IPV and/or were living with HIV were interviewed for the present study.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
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Several studies have investigated the relationship between spirituality and health. They claim the need to develop spiritual care to answer patients' spiritual suffering and to promote spiritual well-being. However, the present study critically analyses the following idea: we ought to take care of the spiritual dimension of patients. Does this interest for spirituality not come from healthcare professionals' desire more than from the patients themselves?
To answer this question, we explored the perspectives of individuals with cancer regarding the integration of spirituality in the healthcare setting in one of the major public hospitals of Paris, France.
Results Findings demonstrated that participants do not expect help from the hospital to handle spiritual issues but they wish for their spiritual dimension to be simply recognised as a part of their identity and dignity. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Several studies have investigated the relationship between spirituality and health. They claim the need to develop spiritual care to answer patients' spiritual suffering and to promote spiritual well-being. However, the present study critically analyses the following idea: we ought to take care of the spiritual dimension of patients. Does this interest for spirituality not come from healthcare professionals' desire more than from the patients themselves? To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.