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Mevlana psychology: Rumi’s contributions to mental health concept and practice development Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Muhammad Fakhruddin Al-Razi, Muhammad Azhar, Muhammad Syifa Amin Widigdo, Imam Amrusi Jailani
Although Rumi’s ideas have been widely recognized in Western psychology, only little scholarly attention has been paid to his notion of mental health. Therefore, this article aims to describe the i...
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Pilot development and initial validation of the Black spiritual creativity scale Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Danielle Drake, Lauren Mizock, Thema Bryant-Davis, April Harris-Britt
There is a lack of research dedicated to understanding and evaluating how African Americans engage in spiritual creativity as a form of cultural empowerment in order to thrive in the face of system...
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Yoga nidra for mental health: A systematic review of current evidence Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Shikha Malviya, Apar Avinash Saoji, B Pravalika
The provision of mental health care is currently inadequate worldwide. A need for innovative, accessible, and evidence-based mental health interventions has been identified. This study explored the...
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The role of religion and spirituality in counseling: experience of counsellors in a collectivist society Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Mohd Radhi Abu Shahim, Melati Sumari, Norsafatul Aznin A. Razak, Dini Farhana Baharudin, Kamarul Md Shah, Mazidah Mohd Dagang
This qualitative study aims to understand the role of religion and spirituality in counseling from the experience of Malaysian counselors. The study participants comprised twelve counselors with ex...
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From conditioning to un-conditioning: a journey toward wellbeing Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Gagan Jain, Samridhi Pareek
Attempts at deconstructing the cause of human misery have been made since time immemorial. There has been a functional tendency in human species to avoid or get rid of not only physical pain but al...
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The experience of spiritual self-care among Malaysian Counsellors: an exploratory study Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Nur Husna Mohd.Hafiz, Mohd Zaliridzal Zakaria, Wan Mohd Fazrul Azdi Wan Razali, Nurhafizah Mohd Sukor, Marina Munira Abdul Mutalib, Muhammed Fauzi Othman
Counselors in Malaysia rely on religious practices for self-care and personal growth, according to a previous study. This exploratory study used a descriptive phenomenological approach to interview...
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Spiritual intelligence and depression: The mediating role of the ambiguity tolerance Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Mohammad Irani, Mina Shahidi, Seyedeh Soleil Ziaee
The present study investigated the relationship between spiritual intelligence, depression, and ambiguity-tolerance among Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU) students. Using random sampli...
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Spiritual well-being, stress, and life satisfaction among healthcare workers in Indonesia: a study during Covid-19 pandemic Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Rully Afrita Harlianty, Hamid Mukhlis, Praty Milindasari, Rini Palupi, Titi Astuti, Elsy Junilia, Lina Madila
This study examines the relationship between spiritual well-being, stress, and life satisfaction among 173 healthcare workers in Indonesia. The results of this study based on the bivariate analysis...
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Religiosity and wellbeing in areas of socio-economic deprivation: The role of social capital and spiritual capital in enabling resources for subjective wellbeing Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Alex D. J. Fry
Although religiosity and socio-economic status shape wellbeing, there are few analyses on wellbeing and religiosity in socio-economically deprived areas, despite decreases in wellbeing and increase...
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Positioning the self (nafs) in Islāmic psycho-spirituality Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-10-09 G. Hussein Rassool, Zuleyha Keskin
There is a significant overlap between the objectives of the Qur’ān and psychology, highlighting their interconnectedness and the importance of Islāmic psycho-spirituality. The Qur’ān provides insi...
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Studying the images of Nataraja: how can religious art, theology, and neuropsychiatry inform one another? Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan, Akhilesh Shukla
The image of Nataraja is a storehouse of collective unconscious thoughts of the Indian psyche. Academicians and research scholars from around the world have extracted essentially and practically ap...
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Synchronicity as intimation of a non-dualistic cosmology for the mental health field Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Tony B. Benning
The growing interest in religion and spirituality in the mental health field has not resulted in the latter being relieved of the binary (dualistic) worldview by which it remains hamstrung. The phe...
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Role of religiosity or spirituality in experiencing posttraumatic growth among sexual assault survivors: a systematic review Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Irfan Fayaz
The study aims to systematically review the relationship between religiosity and posttraumatic growth among the survivors of sexual assaults. A search of the published literature identified 05 empi...
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In the absence of marriage: social and religious-based relationships as alternatives to marriage for never-married adults in Indonesia Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Karel Karsten Himawan, Matthew Bambling, Mair Underwood, Sisira Edirippulige
ABSTRACT Unlike in most Western countries where singleness has been relatively considered as an individual’s choice, singleness is often regarded as a social problem in Indonesia. This causes challenges for never married individuals to meet their belonging needs and to maintain their well-being. The current study aimed to explore the roles of social support, religiosity, and religious coping in assisting
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The relationship between interparental conflict and emotional insecurity in emerging adulthood: the moderator role of intrinsic religiosity Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Bilge Göz-Çengelli, Figen Eroğlu-Ada
ABSTRACT Emotional security theory explains effects of interparental conflict (IPC) on family relationships. Further, relations between religiosity and marriage have been investigated. The aim of the current study is to establish a relationship between these two separate lines of research. We examined perception of IPC and emotional insecurity among emerging adults and how personal and perceived parental
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The Impact of Religio-Cultural Beliefs and Superstitions in Shaping the Understanding of Mental Disorders and Mental Health Treatment among Arab Muslims Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Abdulaziz Alqasir, Keis Ohtsuka
ABSTRACT This study aimed to explore mental health and wellbeing perspectives among Arab Muslims and assess the impact of Arab-Islamic culture on their understanding of mental disorders and treatment options. Semi-structured interviews with 12 participants (six men; six women) were conducted online during the COVID−19 pandemic and analyzed thematically. The results identified six themes that demonstrated
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Spiritual understandings of psychosis: the perspectives of spiritual care staff Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Reham Al Taher, Andrew Fox, Carol Wilson
ABSTRACT Pathologizing spiritual beliefs has been an ongoing challenge in mental health services. Spiritual care services have been working alongside clinicians in discerning psychosis-like experiences that present with a spiritual or religious content. This study aimed to explore how spiritual care staff make sense of experiences otherwise termed as “psychosis” by interviewing a multi-faith sample
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Book review: Moral injury: A handbook for chaplains Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-07-31 David D. Porter
ABSTRACT Harold Koenig et al.’s book, Moral Injury: A Handbook for Chaplains is analyzed to provide readers an orientation to the critical topic of moral injury and its impact within the military setting. As a prevalent issue among servicemembers, the book emphasizes how moral injury typically presents as a comorbidity among clinical diagnoses. Considering its central maladies in moral transgressions
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Can spiritual well-being help people be satisfied with singlehood? Exploring the temporal link between spiritual well-being and satisfaction with singlehood Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Katarzyna Adamczyk, Agnieszka Ewa Łyś, Radosław Trepanowski
ABSTRACT The current study examined the role of spiritual well-being at Time 1 (T1) in satisfaction with singlehood six months later in a sample of 335 Polish single adults aged 19–51 (M = 32.23, SD = 6.44). The analyses provided evidence of a suppression effect of spiritual well-being at Time 2 (T2) on the link between spiritual well-being T1 and satisfaction with singlehood T2. Lower changes in spiritual
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Experiences of spirituality of in- and out-patients in mental health facilities: A thematic synthesis of qualitative studies Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Camilla Christine Holm, Bengt Eirik Karlsson, Åse Holmberg
ABSTRACT Recent decades have seen a significant rise in interest in spirituality in different mental health contexts. A comprehensive systematic review by Milner, Crawford, Edgley, Hare-Duke, and Slade (2019) shows that a gap exists between professionals and service users in the value they place on spirituality. The aim of this article is to synthesize existing literature on how people with mental
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Hope in Islāmic psychotherapy Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-05-02 G. Hussein Rassool, Wajeeha Nisar Ahmed Khan
ABSTRACT This paper aims to shed light on the importance of the use of hope in psychotherapy and how Islāmic psychotherapy works on the instillation of hope in clients for better, long-lasting, and speedy improvement. A number of Western researches have suggested that the construct of hope is an integral part of psychotherapy to help clients accept the process of change with an optimistic approach
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A questionnaire-based study of attitudes to spirituality in people using mental health services and their perceptions of the relevance of the concept of spiritually competent practice Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Melanie Rogers, John Wattis, John Stephenson, Wajid Khan, Stephen Curran, Phil Walters
ABSTRACT The Aim of this study was to examine the attitudes of mental health service users towards spirituality and spiritually competent practice. A validated quantitative questionnaire was designed to elicit the perceptions of spirituality and spiritually competent practice. Participants were invited to participate in the study via social media. Standard statistical procedures, including reliability
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Meaning in life in personality disorder: An empirical approach considering self-direction, self-transcendence and spiritual/religious worldviews Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Angelien Steen, A.W. Arjan Braam, Han Berghuis, Gerrit Glas
ABSTRACT Meaning-in-Life might be associated with self-direction for patients with personality disorder (PD) but also with depressive symptoms or existential factors such as self-transcendence and spiritual/religious worldviews. PD patients (n = 125) and a control group (n = 69) completed the following: Meaning-in-Life Questionnaire (MLQ-Presence and MLQ-Search), General-Assessment-of-personality-disorder
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The effectiveness of Islamic spiritual dignity therapy on self-compassion and self-esteem of single-parent Iranian adolescents Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Adele Dehghanizadeh, Mahmoud Azadi, Jaafar Talebian Sharif, Nafiseh Khoshniat
ABSTRACT The aim of the present study was to diagnose the effectiveness of Islamic spiritual dignity therapy (ISDT) in promoting self-compassion and self-esteem in single-parent young girl. This was an applied, quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design and a control group. The sample population included single-parent young girl aged 15–18 years who lived in Mashhad, Iran in 2022. In total
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A quantitative evaluation of traditional health practitioners’ perspectives on mental disorders in KwaZulu-Natal: knowledge, diagnosis, and treatment practices Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Ntombifuthi Princess Ngubane, Brenda Zola De Gama
ABSTRACT Traditional healing practices are prominent in recent studies. Particularly, there is focused attention on holistic healing in treatment interventions for various illnesses, including mental disorders. This paper quantitatively evaluates the perspectives of traditional health practitioners (THPs) regarding their knowledge, diagnosis, and treatment practices of mental disorders, especially
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Spirituality and depression in mothers of children with leukemia Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Khadije Khazaeli, Seyed Ali Hosseini, Hossein Sortiji, Farzane Saberi
Childhood cancer can affect meaning of life as well as spirituality, causing significant changes in the family members’ life, accordingly, the present study investigated the relationship between de...
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The outcomes of healthcare chaplaincy on hospitalized patients. A quasi-experimental study in Belgium Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Eva Buelens, Laura Dewitte, Jessie Dezutter, Anna Vandenhoeck, Annemie Dillen
ABSTRACT Research on the effects of chaplaincy care is scarce and hampered by methodological limitations. Our quasi-experimental study (n = 256 at baseline) aimed to gain insight into the immediate and intermediate impact of chaplaincy care on inpatients’ existential anxiety, peace, anxiety and depressive symptoms. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze the data. After controlling for age, gender
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Transcendental meditation, education, health and wellbeing: a spiritual approach Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Monali Bhattacharya, Kamna Gaur
This paper discusses the relevance and experience of Pure Consciousness through a technique called Transcendental Meditation (TM). It posits the idea that this technique of meditation can prove to ...
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Influence of religion and spirituality on the mental health of patients with multiple sclerosis Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Sorour Khari, Marzieh Pazokian
ABSTRACT It is widely accepted that following physical abnormalities caused by multiple sclerosis (MS), psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, and stress also develop in these patients, which have received less attention. Moreover, spiritual health can lead to compatibility with chronic illness and reduce psychiatric disorders in this group of patients. Since nurses focus on patients’
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The characteristics of spirituality in Islamic architecture from the perspective of experts Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Ali Sadeghi Habibabad, Guendalina Salimei
ABSTRACT The present study aims to identify, examine, and analyze the factors affecting spirituality in the architecture of religious-cultural places from the perspective of experts and finally explain them in a model. The results generally indicate that physical, sensory, socio-individual, and functional components play a significant role in the creation/enhancement of a sense of spirituality in the
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Kierkegaard and mood disorders Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Tony Benning
ABSTRACT With his writings encompassing such issues as depression, despair, faith, and hope, the nineteenth century Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard is known for his percipient insights into the psychology of spirituality. Here, the author presents a case from his psychiatric practice as a basis for exploring how Kierkegaard’s ideas can be drawn upon when providing spiritually orientated
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Investigating religious commitment, perceived religious oppression, self-esteem, depression, and life satisfaction among Latter-day Saint women Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-01-11 G. E. Kawika Allen, Mason Ming, Steven Hyde, Andrew Bozzelli, Greg Rodgers, Fabio M. Sagebin, Michael Thompson
This study examined correlations among religious commitment, perceived religious oppression, self-esteem, depression, and satisfaction with life for 159 women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latte...
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The Life Satisfaction Scale for Apostolic Women Religious can assist women religious congregations who seek a transformative and vivacious future Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Maria Clara Kreis, Debra W. Moore
The Life Satisfaction Scale for Apostolic Women Religious (LSSAWR) is a well-established instrument with demonstrated psychometrics properties. This study examined the individual item-level ratings...
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Comparing hope and psychological well-being in parents of disabled and healthy children Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Sajjad Reisi, Yusef Mohammadi Bougar, Nastaran Mehrabi, Seyed Mojtaba Ahmadi
The study aims to Compare Hope and Psychological Well-Being in Parents of Disabled and Healthy Children. The data collection was done in the period of October to November 2020 in Eqlid city of Fars...
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The relationship between spirituality and quality of life in patients with spinal cord injury, Iran Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Khadije Khazaeli, Farzane Saberi
Spinal cord injury is one of the traumatic events which has a great impact on the quality of life. spirituality has been used to improve many disorders and abnormalities in recent years and positiv...
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Engendering a monoculture of the mind: implications for mental health policy development in Saudi Arabia Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Mandy Mou, Faisal Mashel Albagmi
The contextualization of mental health in a medical context in the age of neoliberalism within a Northern disciplinary context has been generalized to the global South through health management. Th...
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The problem of the traditional view of Islam in Kazakhstan Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Arnagul Zakhay, Kenshilik Tyshkhan, Saira Shamakhay
The article deals with the religious situation, contradictions on religious grounds, and the emergence and development of radical religious views during the period of independence of Kazakhstan. Th...
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The power of spirituality in symptomatic and functional outcomes of patients with major depressive disorder in an Egyptian sample Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Eman Elgohary Sallam, Eman Abdel Moaty El-Sheshtawy, Mostafa Abdel Moniem Amr, Wafaa Abdel Hakeim El-Bahaey, Ahmed Mahmoud Okasha
ABSTRACT Assessing the role of spirituality on outcomes in Arab patients with major depressive episode and the possible confounding factors is lacking. The aim of the present study was to determine whether spirituality was associated with symptomatic and functional outcomes in an outpatient facility. A total of 79 participants were consecutively enrolled in this study who presented to a psychiatry
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The mechanism underlying the relationship between the spiritual struggles and life satisfaction of Polish codependent individuals participating in Al-Anon – pilot study Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Marcin Wnuk
ABSTRACT Codependency is a serious mental, emotional, social, and physical problem. Little is known about the spiritual mechanism of recovery among codependent individuals participating in Al-Anon self-help groups. The aim of this study was to verify whether spiritual struggles are indirectly through spiritual growth and hope, related to life satisfaction of codependent individuals. The achieved results
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The role of cognitive, emotional, and spiritual development in adult psychological well-being Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Neda Mellat, Soghra Ebrahimi Ghavam, Masoud Gholamali Lavasani, Mohsen Moradi, Esmaeil Sadipour
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between different levels of cognitive, emotional, and spiritual development with adult psychological well-being. A sample consisted of 700 adults in ages (20–60 years). Research data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The findings showed that relativistic thought affects stress, empathy, and emotion regulation
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The imaginal and the pathological: Jung’s Red Book and its Nietzschean and Hildergardian antecedents Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Tony B. Benning
ABSTRACT The contents of his Red Book document experiences that C.G. Jung had during his confrontation with his unconscious. Jung’s great imaginal work was possibly composed while he was in the midst of a pathological process. This paper identifies two works that foreshadowed The Red Book: Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra, and Hildegard’s Scivias. Of interest is the fact that these two precursors
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Exploring Forest Therapy as an Adjunct to Treatment as Usual within a Community Health Counselling Service Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Subhadra Evans, Amy Livingstone, Michael Dodds, Deiter Kotte, Marjan Geertsema, Melissa O’Shea
We aimed to explore consumers’ experiences of FT as an adjunct to their usual psychological treatment. Ten mental health consumers attended 1–6 monthly FT sessions. Interviews were conducted to und...
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Religion, spirituality and mental health: the role of guilt and shame Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Ramón Martínez de Pisón
The present study deals with four issues. First, several brief clarifying remarks concerning religion and spirituality, followed by similar but more extended remarks on guilt and shame. Second, con...
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Warrior Welcome Home: a phenomenological case study of moral injury and soul repair Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Cameron West, Darren Cronshaw
ABSTRACT Warrior Welcome Home retreats have hosted Australian soldiers, veterans and their families since 2007. This article is an appreciative inquiry into theological and spiritual resources that respond to the emerging understanding of military moral injury. It discusses how Scriptural hermeneutics and experience of moral injury inform one another, how leadership fosters a nurturing community, how
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Caring for COVID-19’s patients, an opportunity for spiritual transcendence in volunteer nurses: a content analysis study Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Gholamhossein Mahmoudirad, Ali Sadeghi Akbari
ABSTRACT Nurses are living in unprecedented times and the first-line against the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses see controversial issues and face different complications that lead to work-life conflicts and compromise patient safety. Finding volunteer nurses is a fantastic adventure in such a situation. This study attempted to analyze volunteer nurses’ experiences and factors influencing care in the COVID-19
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The relationship between spiritual intelligence, resilience, and well-being in an Aotearoa New Zealand sample Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Laura O’Sullivan, Nicole Lindsay
Existing research highlights adaptive applications of spiritual intelligence, specifically its relationship to positive well-being and quality of life. Limited studies have examined its applicabili...
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Realizing the power of thought and innate mental health:two overlooked ingredients for resolving traumatic memories Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Thomas Michael Kelley, Ken Manning
ABSTRACT We use the logic of the spiritual Principles of Universal Mind, Consciousness, and Thought to describe two often overlooked ingredients for the resolution of traumatic memories – the power of Thought and innate mental health. We first review the three Principles and use their logic to explain why these two typically unrecognized ingredients can improve and sustain treatment outcomes for people
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Beyond mindfulness: Buddhist psychology and the Abhidharma Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Brendan D. Kelly
ABSTRACT Buddhist psychology increasingly informs mental healthcare through therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), as well as explicitly Buddhist therapies. The central tenets of Buddhist psychology are explored in the Abhidharma, a collection of psychological works from the traditional canon. The Abhidharma includes detailed expositions of the
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Self-transcendent dispositions and spirituality: the mediating role of believing in a benevolent world Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Alice Chirico, Marta Pizzolante, Daniela Villani
ABSTRACT The considerable connection between religiosity/spirituality and positivity in life in general has been widely demonstrated. However, preliminary evidence has shown that when also a cognitive component is included, the direction of this relationship seems to emerge more clearly. Specifically, the differential pathways linking specific positive self-transcendent (ST) experiences and religiosity/spirituality
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Spirituality and Religiosity Profiles among Diverse Young Adults: The Relationship with Meaning Making Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Caroline Cecil Kaufman, Kristoffer Berlin, Theresa Okwumabua, Idia Thurston
ABSTRACT This study explored how patterns of spirituality/religiosity relate to meaning-making among 199 racially diverse young adults (74.5% non-Hispanic Black, 65.1% Christian, and 49% female). Participants completed measures of demographics, spirituality/religiosity, and meaning-making. Latent profile analysis revealed four profiles: “Average Spirituality/Religiosity, Higher Negative Religious Coping
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Ibn qayyim al-jawzīyah’s islāmic psychology: psychological and spiritual diseases Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-04-27 G. Hussein Rassool, Mugheera Luqman
ABSTRACT Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīyah is one of the flag bearers of Islāmic psychology. Ibn Qayyim had rightly identified the relation between the physical and spiritual ailments. He has contributed both in the fields of spiritual and physical health. For curing psycho-spiritual diseases, he has proposed number of spiritual interventions that include faith in God, worship, dhikr (remembrance of God) patience
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Imagined Conversations with God during Divine Struggles: Relationships with Global Views of God and Struggle-Specific Interactions Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Joshua A. Wilt, Julie J. Exline, Peter Jeong, Dorothy Yun, Joyce T. Takahashi, Kenneth I. Pargament
ABSTRACT In a sample of undergraduates who reported divine struggles (N= 290), we coded imagined conversations with God about the struggle for salient themes. We examined how these themes related to global views of God and struggle-specific responses to God. As hypothesized, participants with more positive global God concepts included more communal themes in their imagined expressions to God (e.g.
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Measurements of spirituality in the context of 12-step treatment: problem with theological analysis Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Sergei Korchevoi
ABSTRACT Despite more than the 80-year history of the AA movement, there is a gap in academic knowledge about the essence of AA spiritual concepts. One particularly important lacuna about AA practice is weakness of theoretical frame for the often-used measuring tools of spiritual variables in quantitative studies. This article argues that theological analysis of AA practice can be a very useful part
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Psychometrics properties of the spiritual transcendence scale (STS) among Iranian university students Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Mahdi Moshki, Fatemeh SabetiKakhk, Afrooz Mousavi, Mitra Dogonchi
ABSTRACT In this cross sectional study, the subjects were 390 students. The findings revealed two components of spiritual transcendence and spiritual openness and also the questions that had high factor loadings with these components are largely consistent with the findings of the scale’s authors. Construct validity and reliability were ascertained and the goodness of fit was determined for the Spiritual
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Reclaiming faith identity: through progressive journaling Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Jeffrey D. Cook, Thomas L. Cook
ABSTRACT In our multicultural world, the counselor must provide a safe environment within which the client’s recognition of healthy and unhealthy beliefs are facilitated. Communications between counselor and client depend critically on the faith narrative each has developed over time from the brain’s natural inclination to organize and interpret accumulated personal experience. It is crucial for the
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Identifying alternative mental health interventions: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials of chanting and breathwork Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2022-01-22 Shikha Malviya, Pamela Meredith, Barbra Zupan, Lachlan Kerley
ABSTRACT This systematic review of randomized controlled trials investigated the effects of two religious/spiritual (R/S) practices (breathwork and chanting) on mental health outcomes (depression, anxiety, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms). After registering with PROSPERO (CRD42020136645), a systematic search of four major databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and ProQuest)
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The dark side of Dharma: meditation, madness and other Maladies on the contemplative path. A book review Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Priscilla Boyd
Published in Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2022)
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Psycho-religious counseling approach towards the existential “meaning of being” Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Ginalber L. O. Serra
ABSTRACT The assertions outlined throughout this article are intrinsic to the “search for meaning” as centrality of human nature. The approach consists of a systematic study from the theoretical link Religion-Philosophy-Psychology underlying the spirituality and religiosity of the counselees in their way they manifest themselves in the sense of existing in relation with reality. It consists of a psycho-religious
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Spiritually competent counseling practice with children Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2021-11-28 Steffany J. Joslin, Dr. Heather Davediuk Gingrich
ABSTRACT Spiritual competency encompasses the ability to conceptualize and utilize a client’s spiritual experience in clinical contexts while mitigating one’s own bias through self-awareness and knowledge. In this article, spiritual competency in clinical work with children is explored. Findings showed an interplay between conceptualization and participation in such settings. A framework of spiritual
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Stepping carefully on sacred ground: religion and spirituality in psychotherapy Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Lars Mandelkow, Anne Austad, Henning Freund
ABSTRACT This article explores the significance of religious/spiritual approaches to existential issues in psychotherapy in Norway, with its secular, Western-European society. A content analysis of eight semi-structured interviews with psychologists who are experienced in the intersection of psychotherapy and religion/spirituality confirms the perceived therapeutic benefit of addressing religion/spirituality