Therapies designed to change sexual orientation have come under increasing scrutiny from the profession and the public. The proposition that sexual orientation can be changed therapeutically is widely questioned, and there is concern that such therapies reinforce social devaluation of homosexuality and bisexuality. At the same time, conservative religious individuals wish to seek treatment appr...

In recent times, religiosity and spirituality have received much attention towards mental health, but very few investigations worked on their role life satisfaction within the gender perspective. The present study, however, investigates relationships between religiosity, spirituality, among individuals residing in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Pakistan, with special reference to gender. For...

Although religiosity tends to help older people to cope with physical and social losses, not all studies find a significant association between religious involvement and well-being in old age. It might be that primarily the intrinsic rather than the extrinsic aspect of religiosity is responsible for the positive effect of religiosity on well-being. Using a sample of 103 community dwelling older...

Being an important Islamic concept, tawakkul is a fundamental and core value in the belief system. The present research intended to investigate mediating role of between religious orientation depression. A purposive sample (N = 350) Muslim adults with age 25 years above (M 31.92, SD 8.72) was recruited study. cross-sectional survey design used. Tawakkul Scale (Gondal et al., 2021), Urdu version...

Approximately 50% of patients do not adhere to medical therapy. Religious and spiritual factors may play an important role in determining medication compliance in mental illness. The aim of this paper is to review published evidence documenting a relationship between religion/spirituality (R/S) and treatment adherence in mental illness, in particular in schizophrenia, depression and substance a...

OBJECTIVE Relatively little research has investigated the connection between religiosity and physical child abuse risk. Certain aspects, such as specific religious orientation or beliefs, and cognitive schema, such as socially conformist beliefs, may account for the connection that some have claimed increase religious parents' abuse potential. The current study examined whether greater Extrinsi...