Spirituality, Art Therapy, and the Chemically Dependent Person

Miller, Mary Ann; Carn,; Bls,

doi:10.1300/j034v05n02_10

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“…Spirituality might be a domain that increases within longer periods of time; maybe just one year of follow-up is not enough to foster spirituality during the recovery, as reported by qualitative research [23]. Other investigators found that changes in individuals' purpose in life or sense of meaning, leads to increases in likelihood of alcoholic abstinence [76][77][78] and changes in these dimensions may as well take long periods.…”

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“…Alcoholics Anonymous' twelve-step programmes recognise spirituality as key in the recovery, Miller identified [23] key elements that define twelve-step programmes as spiritual by submitting to the higher power, a regular use of spiritual practices and connectedness with the others to carry the spiritual awakening of the programme. Many of the steps are related with connecting the spiritual, forgiveness or relatedness with the self and the others [24,25].…”

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Spiritus contra Spiritum: Including Spirituality in Addiction Treatments for Recovery, a Systematic Review

Garcia¹,

Babarro²,

Toldos-Romero³

2017

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Spirituality had been acknowledged as a key construct to observe in the treatment and recovery from addictions. Due to the individualistic nature of the construct and overlap with religion, it is still not clear how spirituality influence treatment and recovery of individuals. Different treatments and approaches like AA philosophy or spiritual practices embrace the whole construct to obtain better outcomes in recovery for addictions. The aim of this review was to examine the effects of this construct and its relationship with recovery. A search strategy was followed to retrieve 457 scientific papers related with the matter of study. A total of 14 studies were selected and assessed for quality. Experimental and observational studies were categorised by design, and reviewed through narrative synthesis. Results showed that due to the lack of experimental research, poor quality and diverse conceptions of the construct, spiritual treatments are not more effective than other treatments whereas high levels of spirituality and spiritual practices tend to reduce the substance use outcomes and improve in other areas of recovery. From the findings reviewed which need to be considered with caution, it was concluded that implementing this construct within the therapy or approach may improve, in many cases, to achieve a successful recovery. More research is needed to determine if spiritual-related treatments have better outcomes, and some recommendations were addressed for future research, in addition to an encouragement for the inclusion of spirituality with its diversity into different domains of clinical practice.

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Section: Relevant Findings On Spirituality and Its Importance For Recmentioning

confidence: 99%