Integrating spirituality into mental health rehabilitation

Integrating Religion and Spirituality into Mental Health Care, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Integrating spirituality into mental health care, psychiatry and psychotherapy is still controversial, albeit a growing body of evidence is showing beneficial effects and a real need for such integration. In this review, past and recent research as well as evidence from the integrative concept of a Swiss clinic is summarized. Religious coping is highly prevalent among patients with psychiatric ...

Integrating Spirituality into Primary Care

Spirituality and mental health.

How is spirituality relevant to mental health and to the busy practice of medicine? Until recently, a supplement devoted to this question wouid have been highly improbable— owing in part to Sigmund Freud's antireligious bias and to the subsequent focus of American psychiatry on the biologic aspects of mental illness. Consider briefly what has changed: Palliative medicine, which has long valued ...

Integrating mental health into primary healthcare.

Health is now widely acknowledged as having both a physical and mental health dimension. Indeed, as far back as 1948, WHO’s constitution recognised health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. Despite this, many primary healthcare systems in countries around the world focus on physical care, failing to provide mental...

Integrating tobacco treatment into mental health settings.

INDIVIDUALS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS ARE DYING 25 years prematurely, and the major causes of death are tobacco-related cancer, heart disease, and lung disease. With a smoking prevalence 2 to 4 times greater than the generalpopulationandagreater likelihoodofheavysmoking, anestimated44%ofcigarettes sold in theUnitedStatesaresold to smokers with mental illness or substance use disorders. In cli...