BACKGROUND Patients with sickle cell disease cope with their disease in various ways, such as psychological counseling, hypnosis, medication, and prayer. Spirituality is a coping mechanism in a variety of diseases. This study evaluates the role of spirituality in patients coping with the pain of sickle cell disease. METHODS Seventy-one patients from the Georgia Sickle Cell Clinic completed a ...

Over the last 4 decades, a wide range of energy healing modalities and spiritual disciplines have surfaced in Western society. As health maintenance and therapeutic modalities, energy healing and mind-body techniques are widely recognized as essential tools of contemporary integrative medicine. While still outside the realm of mainstream allopathic medicine, many individuals in North America an...

Survey responses were obtained from 113 family physicians in an exploratory investigation of bereavement care by family physicians. Respondents generally indicated that they believed that bereavement presented significant health risks to their patients and that the identification and treatment of bereaved patients was an important part of their role. However, physicians were highly variable in ...

Every day, women survive physical or sexual violence. Some survive as a result of services they receive in the aftermath of the abuse. The study presented here explored women's experiences of victimization and their use of and perceptions about the services they received. It is learned that what providers usually prioritize and what the women in this study used-namely emotional, psychological, ...

nurse practitioner, clinical specialty, and nurse administrator; and a doctoral degree in nursing (PhD). Certificates in spirituality and spiritual care, informatics, and nutritional counseling; and an accredited dietetic internship program are available along with several on-line specialty courses. Loyola University Chicago is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States. Ov...

Religious counseling is an effort to integrate religious values into the teaching and process. This article provides concept of with a soul-cleansing approach, or Tazukiya Al Nafs. The proposed by Al-Ghazali spiritual healing based on moral sufistic principles. Tazkiyah al-Nafs process purifying soul from all vices morals psalm that exists in person aim oneself prisoners various diseases realiz...

this study is aimed at investigating the impact of training moral, spiritual and cultural intelligence on the dimensions of women’s familial functioning. the research method is quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design and a control group. the population consisted of all the women attending counseling centers in islamabad gharb, iran in the year 2014. using the availability sampling tec...

This article is a part of series articles, and demonstrates positive dynamics psychological work within the framework specific case activity based on Ingush culture religious values. In first “Multicultural approach in counseling: ethnoreligious aspect (analysis case)”, using example father-daughter relationship, we described content process counseling, performed considering ethno-cultural spir...

Background, domestic violence is a serious thing that being experienced by many women, especially wives, which has an impact on misery and suffering physically, psychically, sexually, neglect husband. So treatment needed to reduce the trauma of wife in household using tazkiyatun an-nafs counseling. Case Reports, 30-year-old woman with one child received violent from her husband, both physically...