WE SYSTEMATICALLY REVIEWED THE RESEARCH LITERATURE ON SPIRITUALLY AND RELIGIOUSLY INTEGRATED GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING THREE QUESTIONS: first, how are spirituality and religiosity defined; second, how are spiritual and religious factors characterized and integrated into group psychotherapy; and, third, what is the outcome of the group psychotherapies? We searched in two databa...

This paper reports on a survey completed by Chaplains, Religious Education and Student Welfare Coordinators in State, Catholic and Independent schools in Victoria. Results from this survey support the model of spiritual well-being, which was seen to be reflected in the quality of relationships that people develop with themselves, others, the environment, and with a Transcendent Other. The staff...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine what patients with cancer and primary family caregivers expect from nurses with regard to having their spiritual needs addressed. RESEARCH APPROACH Descriptive, cross-sectional, qualitative study using Miles and Huberman s approach to data reduction. SETTING Outpatient and inpatient settings in a county hospital and a comprehensive cancer center, both located...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among spiritual and religious beliefs and practices, social support, and diabetes self-care activities in African Americans with type 2 diabetes, hypothesizing that there would be a positive association. METHOD This cohort study used a cross-sectional design that focused on baseline data from a larger randomized control tria...

BACKGROUND Recognizing that many Americans draw on religious or spiritual beliefs when confronted by serious illness, some medical educators have recommended that physicians routinely ask about spirituality or religion when conducting a medical history. The most appropriate wording for such an inquiry remains unknown. OBJECTIVE To examine patient acceptance of including the following question...

Ruth Melissa A.B.___________________ (writer) (Last Name) (First) (Initial) Mental Health Clients’ Preferences for Spiritually Oriented Treatment_______________ (Title) Guidance and Counseling, Mental Health Dr. Tom Franklin October, 2000 63 pages (Graduate Major) (Research Advisor) (Mo./Yr) (Pages) Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 4 Edition___________ (Name of Styl...

This paper examines how the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (DSES) relates to range of prosocial behaviors, using a large, nationally representative U.S. data set. It finds that daily spiritual experiences are a statistically and substantively significant predictor of volunteering, charitable giving, and helping individuals one knows personally. Daily spiritual experiences better predict help...

background and objectives: the aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between dimensions of religious and spiritual wellbeing, stress, anxiety, and depression in students of qom university of medical sciences and as well as to access the predictability of stress, anxiety, and depression from the levels of religious-spiritual dimension in students. methods: in this descriptiv...

Since the last Research Review (Lukoff, Turner & Lu, 1992), which focused on the psychoreligious dimensions of healing, there have been significant developments on several fronts. In the diagnostic nomenclature, the medical and psychiatric establishments, and the media, spirituality has been acknowledged as an important aspect of a person's well-being. Most encouraging for transpersonally-orien...