Religiously integrated cognitive behavioral therapy: A new method of treatment for major depression in patients with chronic medical illness.

Pearce, Michelle J.; Koenig, Harold G.; Robins, Clive J.; Nelson, Bruce; Shaw, Sally F.; Cohen, Harvey Jay; King, Michael

doi:10.1037/a0036448

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“…For instance, contemplative practice and awareness of interconnectedness is fostered in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (Segal et al, 2012), and along with love, in spiritual awareness psychotherapy (Miller, 2007). Reflection and commitment (an examined life) is part of religiously integrated cognitive behavioral therapy (Pearce et al, 2015), as well as in spiritually oriented therapy (Sperry and Shafranske, 2005). Loving-kindness meditation (Hofmann et al, 2011; Gilbert, 2014) draws upon awareness and cultivation of love and altruism.…”

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Phenotypic Dimensions of Spirituality: Implications for Mental Health in China, India, and the United States

2016

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While the field of empirical study on religion and spirituality in relation to mental health has rapidly expanded over the past decade, little is known about underlying dimensions of spirituality cross-culturally conceived. We aimed to bridge this gap by inductively deriving potential universal dimensions of spirituality through a large-scale, multi-national data collection, and examining the relationships of these dimensions with common psychiatric conditions. Five-thousand five-hundred and twelve participants from China, India, and the United States completed a two-hour online survey consisting of wide-ranging measures of the lived experience of spirituality, as well as clinical assessments. A series of inductive Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and cross-validating Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM) were conducted to derive common underlying dimensions of spirituality. Logistic regression analyses were then conducted with each dimension to predict depression, suicidal ideation, generalized anxiety, and substance-related disorders. Preliminary EFA results were consistently supported by ESEM findings. Analyses of 40 spirituality measures revealed five invariant factors across countries which were interpreted as five dimensions of universal spiritual experience, specifically: love, in the fabric of relationships and as a sacred reality; unifying interconnectedness, as a sense of energetic oneness with other beings in the universe; altruism, as a commitment beyond the self with care and service; contemplative practice, such as meditation, prayer, yoga, or qigong; and religious and spiritual reflection and commitment, as a life well-examined. Love, interconnectedness, and altruism were associated with less risk of psychopathology for all countries. Religious and spiritual reflection and commitment and contemplative practice were associated with less risk in India and the United States but associated with greater risk in China. Education was directly associated with dimensions of spiritual awareness in India and China but inversely associated with dimensions in the United States. Findings support the notion that spirituality is a universal phenomenon with potentially universal dimensions. These aspects of spirituality may each offer protective effects against psychiatric symptoms and disorders and suggest new directions for treatment.

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Phenotypic Dimensions of Spirituality: Implications for Mental Health in China, India, and the United States

2016

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“…This too seems aligned with concepts of achieving inner peace, meaning and hope. Indeed, CBT frameworks have been developed that more deliberately emphasise religious constructs (Pearce et al, 2015). The results from this study may help in understanding what components of standard psychological treatments may be helpful adapting into the treatment of eating disorders, taking into account differing cultural, religious and spiritual affiliations.…”

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The relationship between spiritual, religious and personal beliefs and disordered eating psychopathology

Akrawi

Bartrop

Surgenor

et al. 2017

Translational Developmental Psychiatry

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Links between religiosity, spirituality and disordered eating have been posited theoretically and empirically, though most studies have accessed predominantly Christian or Jewish samples from private educational institutions, using surveys which contain a heavy JudeoChristian bias. The aim of the current study is to explore the relationship between disordered eating psychopathology (DEP) and spiritual, religious and personal beliefs (SRPBs) in a diverse sample of students with a wide range of cultural, religious and spiritual affiliations. Using a cross-sectional design, female students (n = 687) across two universities in Sydney, Australia completed the Eating Disorder Inventory-3 and the SRPB portion of the World Health Organisation Quality of Life -Spiritual, Religious and Personal Beliefs bref (WHOQOL-SRPB bref) questionnaire. While both existential and religious beliefs were significantly correlated with lower levels of DEP, multivariate analysis found that existential beliefs alone predicted DEP (p < 0.001). These results reveal that spiritual and personal beliefs may have a greater role in predicting lower levels of DEP than religious beliefs in a secular university setting. Furthermore, the findings may have important clinical implications including the exploration of existential and religious mechanisms within current treatment models.

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“…Pearce et al. (), for example, have developed religiously integrated cognitive‐behavioral therapy (RCBT), a novel religiously integrated form of cognitive‐behavioral therapy for the treatment of major depression.…”

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Dimensions of Religion Associated with Suicide Attempt and Suicide Ideation in Depressed, Religiously Affiliated Patients

Jongkind¹,

Brink²,

Schaap‐Jonker³

et al. 2018

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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There is substantial evidence to support the claim that religion can protect against suicide ideation, suicide attempts, and completed suicide. There is also evidence that religion does not always protect against suicidality. More insight is needed into the relationship between suicidal parameters and dimensions of religion. A total of 155 in- and outpatients with major depression from a Christian Mental Health Care institution were included. The following religious factors were assessed: religious service attendance, frequency of prayer, religious salience, type of God representation, and moral objections to suicide (MOS). Multiple regression analyses were computed. MOS have a unique and prominent (negative) association with suicide ideation and the lifetime history of suicide attempts, even after controlling for demographic features and severity of depression. The type of God representation is an independent statistical predictor of the severity of suicide ideation. A positive-supportive God representation is negatively correlated with suicide ideation. A passive-distressing God representation has a positive correlation with suicide ideation. High MOS and a positive-supportive God representation in Christian patients with depression are negatively correlated with suicide ideation. Both are likely to be important markers for assessment and further development of therapeutic strategies.

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Religiously integrated cognitive behavioral therapy: A new method of treatment for major depression in patients with chronic medical illness.

Cited by 157 publications

References 53 publications

Phenotypic Dimensions of Spirituality: Implications for Mental Health in China, India, and the United States

Phenotypic Dimensions of Spirituality: Implications for Mental Health in China, India, and the United States

The relationship between spiritual, religious and personal beliefs and disordered eating psychopathology

Dimensions of Religion Associated with Suicide Attempt and Suicide Ideation in Depressed, Religiously Affiliated Patients

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