Disability and Spirituality

A Working Model of Health: Spirituality and Religiousness as Resources: Applications to Persons with Disability

The author describes a model of health that incorporates the spiritual dimension of life, and articulates the relevancy of this model to those with disabilities. The model includes sociocultural, psychological, physical and spiritual aspects of life, around a central integrative core. The article enumerates some of the challenges faced by those with disabilities and contrasts the predominantly ...

Spirituality, music and psychiatry

Religion and spirituality.

Many clients highly value religious and spiritual (R/S) commitments, and many psychotherapists have accommodated secular treatments to R/S perspectives. We meta-analyzed 51 samples from 46 studies (N = 3,290) that examined the outcomes of religious accommodative therapies and nonreligious spirituality therapies. Comparisons on psychological and spiritual outcomes were made to a control conditio...

Nursing and spirituality.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the spiritual well-being of nurses; to appraise their opinions as to the importance of offering patients spiritual assistance, and to verify whether nurses received any specific type of preparation during their professional training for giving spiritual assistance to patients. METHODS This is an exploratory and descriptive study, carried out with a sample of 30 nurses w...

‘ Religion , Spirituality and Psychiatry ’

Introduction: Religion is an important constituent of culture or the way of life of a society. Man’s faith is as old as humankind itself. Priests and physicians were often the same individuals in different civilizations (Bhugra 1996). For a considerable time, psychologists and psychiatrists have largely neglected this important area of human experience. Over the last few years, however, a subst...