Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women that can causes many psychological problems in patients. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of spiritual cognitive-emotional group therapy in the reduction of psychological problems in female patients suffering breast cancer. In this quasi-experimental study, the pretest-posttest design was used. From the hospitals, ...

the aim of this review article is describing a research on spiritual and religious interventions in iran. an integrative review was conducted to determine the state of the science in iran. iranmedex, scientific information database, irandoc, noormags, magiran and google scholar were searched to find articles published in peer-reviewed journals from august 2002 to august 2012. a qualitative appr...

A contemporary orientation of the hospital experience model must encompass the clients' religious-spiritual dimension. The objective of this paper is to share a previous experience, highlighting at least five reasons hospitals should invest in this direction, and an equal number of steps required to achieve it. In the first part, the text discourses about five reasons to invest in religious-spi...

A phase oriented treatment approach to PTSD is presented which facilitates spiritual empowerment by teaching patients how to have nonlocal perceptions (benign dissociations) that stimulate the healing process. Patients are taught a structured protocol which promotes cognitive awareness of spiritual intuitions and their characteristic mental presentations. This in turn creates greater potential ...

PURPOSE Investigations into the role of spirituality in cancer confirm the association of good spiritual well-being with many positive outcomes. This study aimed to evaluate potential changes in spirituality over the course of radiation therapy (RT). PATIENTS AND MATERIALS The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual questionnaire measuring spiritual well-being and quality o...

A COMPARISON between the systems for the transformation of attitudes, feelings, and behaviour developed by two men so apparently disparate in outlook as St Ignatius of Loyola and Sigmund Freud might be expected to reveal nothing but contrasts. But we are so steeped in the, details of the religious and philosophical controversies of the last few centuries, that we are likely to overlook the comm...