2005
DOI: 10.1037/0022-006x.73.4.610
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Psychosis or Faith? Clinicians' Assessment of Religious Beliefs.

Abstract: This study investigated mental health professionals' assessment of the pathognomonic significance of religious beliefs. A total of 110 participants reviewed 3 vignettes depicting individuals possessing the religious beliefs associated with Catholicism, Mormonism, and Nation of Islam. The religious beliefs of the individuals in the vignettes were identified as either being integral to a religious tradition or not and also as either resulting in a threat to harm another or not. Identifying beliefs as religious r… Show more

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“…However, the beliefs for Nation of Islam were rated as highly pathological regardless of whether they were described as part of the religion or not. Clinicians' lack of familiarity with the less mainstream religions (e.g., Mormonism and Nation of Islam) may have been responsible for the discrepancy in ratings of psychotic pathology (O'Connor & Vandenberg, 2005). This may be particularly troubling because such unfamiliarity may be more the rule than the exception.…”
Section: Therapists and Religion/spiritualitymentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…However, the beliefs for Nation of Islam were rated as highly pathological regardless of whether they were described as part of the religion or not. Clinicians' lack of familiarity with the less mainstream religions (e.g., Mormonism and Nation of Islam) may have been responsible for the discrepancy in ratings of psychotic pathology (O'Connor & Vandenberg, 2005). This may be particularly troubling because such unfamiliarity may be more the rule than the exception.…”
Section: Therapists and Religion/spiritualitymentioning
confidence: 97%
“…A recent analogue study illustrated that clinical judgment can be altered when practitioners are unfamiliar with the religious beliefs of a client (O'Connor & Vandenberg, 2005). After reading one of three vignettes depicting clients possessing The further a religious belief was from mainstream religious beliefs (i.e., Christianity), the higher rating of pathology it was assigned.…”
Section: Therapists and Religion/spiritualitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…El DSM-III no hace referencia a la cultura, el DSM-IIIR (revisado) hace sólo una referencia breve a la cultura (Rogler, 1993), la cual se hace presente con fuerza recién en el DSM-IV. Éste incluye información en la cual prescindir del contexto cultural puede llevar a diagnósticos errados (O'Connor & Vanderberg, 2005). Pese a este reciente cambio en la conceptualización del rol de la cultura a la hora de evaluar los comportamientos y las conductas, existe una fuerte controversia respecto de este rol que aún no ha sido resuelta.…”
Section: El Dsm-iv Lo Cultural Y Lo Religiosounclassified
“…ej., no es un artículo de fe religiosa)… " (p. 783). Mediante esta defi nición el DSM-IV, implícitamente, da a la religión el lugar de una cultura o subcultura, consideración que eximiría las creencias religiosas de signifi cación patológica (O'Connor & Vanderberg, 2005). Si una creencia se encuentra relacionada con un tipo particular de religión, ella no debería poseer signifi cación patológica al momento de encontrarse compartida por otras personas.…”
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