Grounded theory analysis of data obtained in 10 interviews with Roman Catholic Christian professional counselors identified six themes. Three themes were common to all interviews: the value and beauty faith; autonomy obedience; healing, renewal, call. other themes, appearing topics both religion counseling within individual interviews, integrated whole, relational concerns, meshing theories. Re...

August 2005 | Volume 2 | Issue 8 | e256 Armed with the power to prescribe, doctors are in a position to fl ood their patients’ bodies with potent medicines at a stroke of their pen—and they have been consistently wooed by the pharmaceutical industry. Doctors in Nepal have started to become targets for the pharmaceutical industry’s promotional activities. The mountainous, landlocked, developing ...

Poor adherence to psychotropics undermines the possibility of effective drug treatment in psychiatric disorders. The reasons (Cooper, 2007) described for not taking drugs as prescribed were forgetting, losing, running out; thinking medication unnecessary; reluctance to take drugs and side effects. Rest other reasons for non-compliance could be violence, greater substance use, complexity of the ...

Cultural factors have influenced the presentation, diagnoses, and treatment of anxiety disorders in India for several centuries. This review covers the antecedents, prevalence, phenomenology, and treatment modalities of anxiety disorders in the Indian cultural context. It covers the history of the depiction of anxiety in India and the concept of culture in the classification of anxiety disorder...

OBJECTIVE Historical and contemporary research has posited links between eating disorders and religious asceticism. This study aimed to examine relationships between eating disorders, religion, and treatment. METHOD Qualitative study using purposeful sampling, applying audiotaped and transcribed depth interview, subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis. RESULTS Participants wer...

into the nature of the Healing Ministry of the Church and, on the other hand, medicine has increasingly turned its attention to the non-physical origins of disease and the place of psychological methods in its treatment. It is important that there should be greater mutual understanding between these two streams of knowledge and experience. Psychiatry occupies a half-way position between these t...