The Role of Spirituality in the Treatment of Trauma and Eating Disorders: Recommendations for Clinical Practice

Berrett, Michael E.; Hardman, Randy K.; O’Grady, Kari A.; Richards, P. Scott

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“…In a qualitative survey of 24 inpatients with eating disorder who had experienced various forms of trauma (i.e., sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, serious illness, divorce of parents, death of family members), Berrett, Hardman, O'Grady, and Richards (2007) found that patients perceived that the trauma they had experienced had injured their sense of spirituality. Many of the patients also perceived that recovering their faith and sense of spirituality was an important part of their journey toward recovery.…”

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Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy for Trauma and Meaning Making Among Ethnically Diverse Individuals in the United States

Allen

Richards

Lea

2017

Reconstructing Meaning After Trauma

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Esmeralda, a 42-year-old Latina woman from Mexico, had moved to the Reconstructing Meaning After Trauma 98 there still remains more research and understanding needed to employ these strategies in the counseling session (Richards & Bergin, 2014). Additional training from experts and practitioners using these interventions with diverse populations in session would be helpful for psychotherapists who may want to incorporate spiritually oriented strategies with their clients. We hope that this chapter will stimulate interest of other educators, scholars, and researchers to advance the understanding and knowledge of spiritually oriented psychotherapy strategies for trauma among diverse populations. Many lives affected with traumatic experiences, such as the loss of Esmeralda's son, thankfully, can be helped through hope and spiritual strategies. Frankl (1985), a concentration camp survivor during World War II, believed that life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones. He contends that our main motivation for living is found in our will to find meaning in life. This opportunity to utilize spiritual methods to find meaning in what we do, and what we experience, or at least in the stand we take when faced with a situation of suffering, gives us hope and courage to continue.

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Section: Empirical Connections Between Trauma and Spiritualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy for Trauma and Meaning Making Among Ethnically Diverse Individuals in the United States

Allen

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Lea

2017

Reconstructing Meaning After Trauma

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“…Although clients may report engaging primarily in one type of religious coping, clients may also voice an inner conflict about religious beliefs. Berrett, Hardman, O'Grady, and Richards (2007) described a client who seemed to experience such an internal conflict; this client, who struggled with an eating disorder, noted that she presently lacked trust in God, but cognitively realized a need to “rebuild that trust” (p. 376). Researchers also reported that some clients with eating disorders changed certain religious beliefs during the course of therapy (Marsden, Karagianni, & Morgan, 2007).…”

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Religious Coping, Body Dissatisfaction, and Bulimic Symptomatology

Buser

Bernard

2013

Counseling and Values

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The authors explored the association among body dissatisfaction, religious coping, and bulimic symptomatology. The results suggest that spiritual discontent religious coping was detrimental for the college female participants (N = 398) when considered in relationship to bulimic symptomatology. Implications of the findings for theory refinement, future research, and clinical practice are discussed.

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“…Para algunos autores, tanto las experiencias traumáticas como los TCA pueden distanciar a las mujeres de su propia espiritualidad, socavando una fuente terapéutica potencialmente importante 59,60 . Las intervenciones espirituales son escasamente utilizadas en los programas de tratamientos contemporáneos y existe poca confi rmación en la práctica clínica disponible en relación a su efi cacia; no obstante, se dispone de publicaciones concluyentes que se refi eren al valor del componente espiritual en las aproximaciones terapéuticas a considerar en estas pacientes.…”

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Espiritualidad y ascetismo en la anorexia nerviosa

2012

Rev. chil. neuro-psiquiatr.

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Background: Spirituality and asceticism are relevant characteristics of patients suffering from anorexia nervosa (AN). Objective: To describe the evidence on spirituality and asceticism in AN. Method: Medline/Pubmed databases were used to look for evidence on spirituality and asceticism in AN. Results: From an historical point of view, asceticism of medieval saints ("holy anorexia") and that of the modern anorexics, display common features; nevertheless, the former wanted to reach sacredness and the latest seek thinness, so valuable socioculturally. Contemporary Protestantism and AN share distinctive characteristics of protestant ethics, mainly self-discipline, self-control, self-sacrifi ce, rationality, effi ciency and goals achievement. Although asceticism has been signifi cantly correlated to worse outcome, more treatment dropouts, perfectionism, immaturity and purgative behaviors, is also associated to creative and adaptative skills and its connection to spiritual and religious proneness may help the improvement of psychopathological and/or behavioral symptoms in AN. Conclusions: Spirituality may stimulate the motivation, contention and increase therapeutic adherence in patients suffering from AN. It should be considered as a helpful and eventually routine therapeutic tool in the treatment of anorexic patients.

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The Role of Spirituality in the Treatment of Trauma and Eating Disorders: Recommendations for Clinical Practice

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy for Trauma and Meaning Making Among Ethnically Diverse Individuals in the United States

Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy for Trauma and Meaning Making Among Ethnically Diverse Individuals in the United States

Religious Coping, Body Dissatisfaction, and Bulimic Symptomatology

Espiritualidad y ascetismo en la anorexia nerviosa

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