
Religion and Mental Health
Research and Clinical Applications
Description
Key Features
- Summarizes research findings on the relationship of religion to mental health
- Investigates religion’s positive and negative influence on coping
- Presents common findings across religions and specific faiths
- Identifies how these findings inform clinical practice interventions
- Describes how to use religious practices and beliefs as part of therapy
Readership
Researchers and practitioners in clinical psychology
Table of Contents
Part I. The Past and the Present
1. Historical background
2. Religion and coping
3. Religion and negative emotions
4. Religion and positive emotionsPart II. Specific Religions and Mental Health
5. Protestant Christianity
6. Catholic Christianity
7. Judaism
8. Islam
9. Hinduism and Buddhism
10. Spiritual but not religiousPart III. Clinical Applications
11. Applications in clinical practice
12. Evidence-based religious psychotherapies
13. Conclusions and recommendations
Product details
- No. of pages: 384
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: March 13, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128112823
- eBook ISBN: 9780128112830
About the Author
Harold Koenig
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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Tom M. Wed May 05 2021
An Important Resource
I stumbled upon this book while researching a dissertation and was stunned by the wide-ranging overview of relevant literature in one volume. Koenig has a positive view of the role of religion (backed up by the research he is exploring), though he's honest and forthright when the data undermines the 'religion is good for you' argument. Turns out there are many subtleties associated with the matter (race, class, nature of religious belief and practice, the religion one is part of--or not, etc.). It's all grist for the mill in a fine book for the professional or the student interested in the practical intersection of religion and religious faith/spirituality.