OBJECTIVES Despite growing research interest in spirituality and health, and recommendations on the importance of spiritual care in advanced cancer and palliative care, relationships between spiritual belief and psychological health near death remain unclear. We investigated (i) relationships between strength of spiritual beliefs and anxiety and depression, intake of psychotropic/analgesic medi...

Chaplaincy Today • Volume 23 Number 2 • Autumn/Winter 2007 Medical practitioners and researchers continue to explore the association between spiritual/religious (SR) concerns and illness and medical care. Koenig et al. summarize over 1600 publications that describe this relationship. In a previous publication, we reported the statistically significant web of associations between the personal/pr...

During the last 10 years there has been a considerable increase in the number of studies showing positive associations between spirituality and health [1, 2]. Incorporating spirituality into medical practice, however, continues to pose many challenges [3]. These include the multicultural milieu in which medicine is practiced and the deeply personal meaning these issues carry for both patients a...

The article presents the results of a theoretical analysis importance spiritual and moral values in professional activity modern Russian teacher general education organization. General as an important social institution performs functions reproduction younger generation. We substantiated relevance model study content teacher’s culture, spiritual, basis its formation (it is based on brief public...

Covering one sixth of the planet's surface and experiencing global climate change, Arctic is a place where indigenous peoples' lifestyles, eco-spiritual values unique flora fauna species are reproduced. Planetary humanitarian thought centres around Ocean, metaphorically referred to as modern Mediterranean. The challenge recognise spiritual intellectual heritage peoples in development resources ...

How to develop the character of leaders is a challenging question pursued by managers, psychologists, and consultants. To address this question, the authors introduce a developmental model for character growth. The model proposes that the integration of the leader’s core values and beliefs into the self-identity is at the heart of character development. The supporting character strengths of age...