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Competent care rests on basic knowledge about religious and spiritual diversity, understanding of how religion and spirituality are interwoven into adaptive and maladaptive human behavior, and skills in assessing and addressing religious and spiritual issues that arise in treatment.
Religious faith can lead to positive mental benefits, writes Stanford anthropologist. Creating a relationship with a supernatural other takes effort that can lead to meaningful change, says Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann.
Religion and Mental Health have been found to be linked to several studies which seem to suggest that religion is an important way to have a meaning and purpose in life as well as a sense of well-being. Moreover, religious experiences have often coexisted with positive mental health.
Both religion and spirituality can have a positive impact on mental health. In some ways, they provide the same impact. For example: Both religion and spirituality can help a person tolerate stress by generating peace, purpose and forgiveness.
The five papers included here in this Special Issue of Mental Health, Religion & Culture, entitled Religious Healing and Mental Health, examine religious healing and mental health in diverse contexts and using differing methodologies.
It is critical to understand the religious barriers to appropriate and efficient mental health delivery to different populations. The present review article focuses on potential barriers to access to mental health services among people with religious involvement.
Religiously reinforced stigma toward mental illness is an obstacle to effective treatment worldwide (1, 2). Examples include competition from traditional healers, the use of prayer rather than medication for depression, and exorcisms performed for psychosis.
The effects of S/R on mental health are likely bidirectional, and the manner in which religious beliefs are used to cope with distress (i.e. negative and positive), may affect mental health outcomes. Despite these findings, the mechanisms that explain these associations and the role of S/R interventions need further study.
Several studies have been assessing the role of spirituality and religiousness (S/R) on well-being, quality of life (QoL), survival and physical and mental health worldwide 1–8. Likewise, there is promising evidence that spirituality may enhance positive clinical outcomes in clinical practice 3,9–12.
Does religion contribute to mental health and well-being? If so, is this link universal? This chapter reviews the interdisciplinary literature on religion and mental health.