Spiritual Intelligence and High Risk Behaviors

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: It is necessary to design some treatments and evaluate them based on the components of spiritual intelligence, in accordance with social – cultural situations and the type of disorder. Since this item is useful both for prevention and improvement of the health level, it's deserving that the researchers and therapists explore this area more than ever. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. With each passing day, more people believe in spiritu-ality as the key solution to all psychological and social problems; similarly, more experts concentrate on supporting spiritual beliefs and behaviors as a solution to these problems (1). In this new era, experts perceive the necessity of discussing the issue of spirituality and religion from various points. Humans' need for spirituality emanates from their nature. Although during the Renaissance, some historical events led to man's separation from spiritual-ity, by the beginning of the mid-20 th century, such a need emerged again, to the extent that in 1980, some said, " God is coming back! " Of course several factors contributed to this return, including the two worldwide wars which made man worried and pessimistic about scientific developments technology development dose not led to sincere relationships between people, but also unbelievably extended man's relationship with organizations and places make a great shock to the modern life. Such worries and unpleasant , offensive instances have inspired mankind to make a serious decision about his resort to spirituality (2). In this regard, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently defined man as a psychological, social and spiritual creature. Considering the new spiritual orientation , its relationship with religion, and also other psychological issues like mental health, some experts have intended to introduce new concepts into the religion and spirituality. Thus, on the threshold of the third millennium , concepts like spiritual health, spiritual welfare, and the like, have been added to the academic literature of the psychology (3). Recently, the psychologists have introduced a new factor called the spiritual intelligence (3) as an effective factor on mental health, which has attracted worldwide attention and interest. Spiritual intelligence represents a collection of spiritual capabilities, capacities and resources leading to the increase of people's mental health and adaptability (4, 5). Due to the novelty …