Re: “Medical students’ personal experiences, religion, and spirituality explain their (dis)comfort with a patient’s religious needs.”

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...

‘ 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...

Role of religion and spirituality in medical patients: Confirmatory results with the SpREUK questionnaire

BACKGROUND Spirituality has become a subject of interest in health care as it is was recognized to have the potential to prevent, heal or cope with illness. There is less doubt that values and goals are important contributors to life satisfaction, physical and psychological health, and that goals are what gives meaning and purpose to people's lives. However, there is as yet but limited understa...

Religion, spirituality, and psychosis.

This review discusses the relationships between religion, spirituality, and psychosis. Based on the DSM-IV, we comment on the concept of spiritual and religious problems, which, although they may seem to be psychotic episodes, are actually manifestations of nonpathological spiritual and religious experiences. Studies reporting that hallucinations also occur in the nonclinical population and thu...

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Religious Coping, Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents: A Prospective Study