Music has a great capacity to afford spiritual experiences, but are those experiences intrinsic or extrinsic to the music? This paper reports the results of research aimed at answering that research question. One hundred and seventeen self-reported Christian religious people completed a survey, answering eight rating-item questions about strong musical experiences, both in a religious and a non...

This paper extends the reporting of contemporary use of the Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM), which provides flexibility to researchers, enabling them to choose the version of the instrument that best suits the cohort under investigation. SHALOM was built on a solid theoretical foundation, provided by the Four Domains Model of Spiritual Health/Well-Being. It comprises 20 i...

background despite the paramount importance and direct relationship of spirituality and spiritual care with health and well-being, they are relatively neglected aspects of nursing care. objectives the aim of this study is to explore iranian nurses’ perceptions and experiences of the facilitators of spiritual care delivery. materials and methods for this qualitative content analysis study, a pur...

Objective: To review research articles in psychiatry and psychology involving Latin American populations and/or produced by Latin American scholars to investigate the differential diagnosis between spiritual/anomalous experiences and mental disorders in order to contribute to the validity of the International Classification of Diseases towards its 11 edition in this area. Method: We searched el...

This paper focuses on spirituality as part of a broad understanding of intelligence and the inquiry into human abilities. Based on a theistic approach, spiritual intelligence is perceived as an ability to understand the world and oneself through God-centeredness and to adapt one’s life accordingly. It is a basic ability that shapes and directs all other abilities. Relying on the personal experi...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore nurses' and physicians' experiences with the ars moriendi model (AMM) for spiritual assessment. DESIGN Convergent, parallel, mixed-methods. SETTING Palliative home care in Belgium. SAMPLE 17 nurses and 4 family physicians (FPs) in the quantitative phase, and 19 nurses and 5 FPs in the later qualitative phase. METHODS A survey was used to investigate first i...