Religion and Psychology.

Intro -- RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY -- RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 CRITICAL METHODOLOGY IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 HOLISTIC HEALING IN RELIGION, MEDICINE AND PSYCHOLOGY -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NATURE OF HOLISTIC HEALING -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 BEING IN THE WORLD OF PEACEKEEPING: LIVING THE UNPRESENTABLE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PEACEKEEPERS -- Luke -- James -- Matt -- Paul -- Mary -- Peter -- Simon -- Thomas -- John -- Tim -- THE SITUATEDNESS OF CONTEMPORARY PEACEKEEPING -- FALLING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: TRANSITIONS IN SITUATEDNESS -- In the Rabbit Hole: An Oasis -- What Latitude or Longitude I've Got To? -- Jumping into the Hell Hole -- Going to the Hobbit House -- The Caucus Race -- The Rabbit Hole: Sights, Sounds and Smells -- Debriefing the Rabbit Hole: The Pits -- Debriefing the Rabbit Hole: The Old Vets -- Too Radical Extremes -- THE MILITARY FAMILY -- The Strings to Your Family Are Undone -- Tightening of the Military Family Bond -- THE CENTRALITY OF BROTHERHOOD AND GRIEVING LOSS IN THE MILITARY FAMILY -- My Brothers: Closer than My Own Brother -- That Was a Pretty Glorious Moment -- It is All So Connected, the Old Vets, the Old War and the More Recent Ones -- Suicide of a Brother in the Military Family -- Suicide in the Family: The Military Response -- The Airborne Disbanded: They Ripped Your Family Away -- The Airborne Is Bad: That's Your Family -- The Somalia Inquiry: They Disbanded the Airborne -- Adding Insult to Injury -- Shunned: Another Stigma Attached -- The Government Has Washed Their Hands of Me -- The Government Is Embarrassed into Giving a Medal: Recognized, Not Recognized -- THE POOL OF TEARS: LIVING THE UNPRESENTABLE -- Rules of Engagement: The Things That Restrict You.

Cambodia: Why Doesn't It Matter? -- Haiti: The Have Nots -- Reconciling Good and Evil -- What's Fair, What's Just, What's the Right Thing to Do? -- Evil Is Inhuman Machines? -- There Is No God. There Is No Devil -- What's Happened? It's Hatred -- Hatred That's Difficult to Comprehend -- The Church: How Does That Make Sense? -- The School: How Could You Call Yourself a Person? -- How Do You Make Sense? You Don't Make Sense of It -- This Is Senseless: It's Chaos -- It Makes No Sense -- All of a Sudden the World Opens Up -- What the Hell Is Going On Here: This Is Not a War! -- Soldiers Should Be Revered -- The Other Side of Insanity -- Turning into Them -- Chaos: From Spitting Out Your Gum to Genocide -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF TRAUMA HEALING -- ABSTRACT -- DEFINING PTSD -- THE ETIOLOGY OF PTSD -- TRADITIONAL TREATMENT -- RESEARCH ON THE OUTCOME OF PSYCHOTHERAPY -- IS THE TRADITIONAL PTSD TREATMENT EFFECTIVE? -- THE THERAPEUTIC ROLE OF FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY -- THE SURGE OF INTEREST IN SPIRITUALITY'S THERAPEUTIC ROLE -- A. The Disillusionment with Science -- B. The Impact of Modern Physics -- C. Mind/Body Medicine -- D. Research on Religion and Health -- FAITH AS AN ANCHOR POINT -- THE SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE -- THE SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY -- SUMMARY -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 IS THERE A PLACE FOR SPIRITUALITY IN THE CARE OF ELDERLY PATIENTS? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EVIDENCES OF AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH -- Religiosity and Mortality -- Religiosity and Functional Status -- Summary of Hypotheses Explaining the Association between Spirituality and Health -- CLINICAL INFLUENCE OF SPIRITUALITY IN THE CARE OF ELDERLY PATIENTS -- Positive Aspects of Spirituality on Clinical Care -- Negative Aspects of Spirituality on Clinical Care.

Spirituality As a Factor that Might Influence Patients' Medical Choices and Patient's Perception of Quality of Care -- ASSESSMENT OF SPIRITUALITY, INCLUDING RELIGIOSITY -- Qualitative Measures of Spirituality -- Quantitative Measure of Spirituality and Religiosity -- A. Measures of Religiosity -- B. Measures of General Spirituality -- C. Measures of Spiritual Well-Being -- D. Measures of Spiritual/Religious Coping -- E. Measures of Spiritual Needs -- Assessment of spirituality in clinical care -- SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTIONS: REMAINING QUESTIONS -- Ethical Questions Raised by Spiritual Assessment -- Who Should Perform Spiritual Assessment and Interventions? -- Are Spiritual Interventions Beneficial to Patients? -- THE PLACE OF THE SPIRITUALITY DIMENSION IN ELDERLY PATIENT CARE -- A Bio-Psycho-Social Model Revisited -- Conditions Required to Implement Spirituality Assessment and Care into the Institutional Setting -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 UNFORGIVENESS AND LIFETIME PREVALENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: FINDINGS FROM AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF UNITED STATES ADULTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Defining Forgiveness and Unforgiveness -- Connections between Forgiveness and Mental Health -- Correlational Studies -- Interventions -- Longitudinal Studies -- Population-Based Studies -- Present Study -- METHOD -- Sample and Procedures -- Unforgiveness Measures -- Diagnostic Interview -- Depression -- Dysthymia -- Generalized Anxiety -- Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia -- Social Phobia -- Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Anger -- Socio-Demographic Measures -- Missing Data Imputation -- Analyses -- RESULTS -- Descriptives -- Associations between Unforgiveness and Lifetime Prevalence of Psychopathology -- Unforgiving Tendencies -- Problems Due to Unforgiveness -- CONCLUSION -- Limitations -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 7 UNFORGIVENESS AND THE BROKEN HEART: UNFORGIVING TENDENCIES, PROBLEMS DUE TO UNFORGIVENESS, AND 12-MONTH PREVALENCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH CONDITIONS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Religiousness and Physical Health -- Religiousness and Forgiveness -- Forgiveness and Cardiovascular Health Outcomes -- Experiments -- Correlational Work -- Intervention -- Present Study -- METHOD -- Sample and Procedures -- Measures -- 12-Month Prevalence of Any Cardiovascular Incident -- Unforgiveness -- Anger -- Depression -- Socio-demographics -- Missing Data Imputation -- Analyses -- RESULTS -- Descriptives -- Associations between Unforgiveness and 12-Month Prevalence of Cardiovascular Incidents -- Unforgiving Tendencies -- Problems Due to Unforgiveness -- CONCLUSION -- Summary -- Connections to Existing Literature -- Conceptual Models, Mechanisms, and Evidence -- Limitations -- Future Directions -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 DISCOVERING A STRONGER SENSE OF SELF: THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY ON EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF INFERTILE WOMEN -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Emotional Responses to Infertility -- Holistic Care of Infertile Women -- Evolution of Research on Religion/Spirituality and Health -- The Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Well-Being -- Critiques on the Relationship between Religion and Health -- Religious Coping -- METHODS -- Setting -- Participants -- The Profile of the Participants -- Sampling -- Recruitment -- Data Sources -- Data Collection -- Ethical Considerations -- Rigour -- Data Analysis -- FINDINGS -- Reappraising the Meaning of Infertility -- Exploring the Causes of Infertility -- Demonstrating Various Emotions -- Positive Emotions -- Negative Emotions -- Adopting Coping Strategies -- Religious/Spiritual Coping Strategies -- Non-Religious Coping Strategies -- DISCUSSION -- IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE -- CONCLUSION.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 NAVIGATING THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF INFERTILITY: MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN INFERTILE WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Religious and Spiritual Care as a Component of Holistic Care for Infertile Women -- The Perspective of Religions Regarding Infertility -- Research Evidence on Infertility and Religion -- METHODS -- Design -- Setting -- Participants and Their Profile -- Sampling -- Recruitment -- Data Collection -- Ethical Considerations -- Rigour -- Data Analysis -- FINDINGS -- Encountering Infertility -- Religious/Spiritual Meaning-Making -- To Acknowledge New Identity and Trying to Cope -- Struggling for a Resolution -- Adjusting Marital Relationships -- Managing Social Issues -- Decision-Making for Treatment -- Expecting for Outcome -- DISCUSSION -- Limitations of the Study -- Contribution of the Study to Knowledge -- Implications for Practice -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 DISCOURSE ON VOLUNTEERING: THE BENEFITS AND BARRIERS -- ABSTRACT -- DISCOURSE ON VOLUNTEERING: THE BENEFITS AND BARRIERS -- FOCUS GROUPS AS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH -- Implementation of the Study -- Data Analysis -- Sample Demographics -- RESULTS -- Intrinsic Reasons for Volunteering -- Biological Health Outcomes -- Psychological Health Outcomes -- Social Health Outcomes -- Spiritual Health Outcomes -- Extrinsic Reasons for Volunteering -- Priceless Rewards -- Tangible Rewards -- Values Acquisitions -- Needs Identification -- Intrinsic Barriers -- Extrinsic Barriers -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 REPRESENTATIONS OF GOD UNCOVERED IN A SPIRITUALITY GROUP OF BORDERLINE INPATIENTS -- ABSTRACT -- PROCESSES OF THERAPEUTIC CHANGE IN A SPIRITUALITY GROUP FOR INPATIENTS WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER -- THE SPIRITUALITY GROUP -- SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE GROUP PROCESS -- AUTHOR NOTE.

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