With the advent of the biopsychosocial approach in family therapy, the domain of spiritual issues is increasingly being recognized as important to families. This article will describe a graduate-level seminar on Spiritual Issues in Family Therapy at the University of San Diego that offers family therapy students the opportunity to examine issues of spirituality, religion, and meaning and their ...

We show how to generalize list comprehensions to work on abstract data types. First, we make comprehension notation automatically available for any data type that is specified as a constructor/destructor-pair (bialgebra). Second, we extend comprehensions to enable the use of different types in one comprehension and to allow to map between different types. Third, we refine the translation of com...

Issues related to psychological recovery following coronary bypass surgeries (CABG) have emerged in recent years. Other research has shown the effects of spiritual or religious activities on health and aging. However, little is known about the relationship of spiritual coping, including religious coping, to post-CABG adjustment. This study addressed multifactorial determinants of postoperative ...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: It is necessary to design some treatments and evaluate them based on the components of spiritual intelligence, in accordance with social – cultural situations and the type of disorder. Since this item is useful both for prevention and improvement of the health level, it's deserving that the researchers and therapists explore thi...

BACKGROUND Phase of Illness describes stages of advanced illness according to care needs of the individual, family and suitability of care plan. There is limited evidence on its association with other measures of symptoms, and health-related needs, in palliative care. AIMS The aims of the study are as follows. (1) Describe function, pain, other physical problems, psycho-spiritual problems and...