- BC’s Mental Health Journal Visions: Spirituality & Recovery – Spring 2001: Mental Illness, Health and Spirituality — Mind Over Mind: The Health Effects of Spirituality —
- Community Mental Health Professionals’ Perspectives on Incorporating Spirituality in their Care of Clients with Serious Mental Illness: A Qualitive Inquiry – Spirituality has emerged as an important components of mental health care. A growing amount of empirical and theoretical development exists on the effects of spirituality and positive mental health outcomes….
- “Religion and Spirituality in the context of Bipolar Disorder: a Literature review” – “Religion and spirituality (R/S) may play an important role for individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) by providing a means of coping with, and an explanatory model for, their disorder.. Updated! 06/16
- Spirituality and Mental Health – Issue Identification: There is a need to understand the intricate relationship between spirituality and mental health with a specific focus on depression.
- “Spiritual Care and Psychiatric Treatment: an introduction” – The Patron of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has pointed out the irony involved in recording patients’ religion, without seeking to discover that all this means to them in terms of understanding and coping with their illness (HRH The Prince of Wales, 1991)….
- Spirituality and Psychiatry in Canada – Psychiatric Practice compared with Patient Expectations.This study compares psychiatrists’ and psychiatric patients’ practice, attitudes, and expectations regarding spirituality and religion.
- Standards of Spiritual and Religious Care for Health Services in Canada – 1. Pastoral Medicine 2. Church work with the Sick 3. Health Facilities – Administration 4. Sick – Religions Life 5. Catholic Health Association of Canada. II. Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and Education……
- Taking a Spiritual History – ” The rationale for assessing the spiritual needs of psychiatric patients is examined as a prelude to addressing the question of how to do this.