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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Spirituality and Religion"”.
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An Examination of the Relationship between Spirituality and Religion and Selected Risk-Taking Behaviors in College Underclassmen
Nearly one third of all Americans believe religion to be the most important part of their life. Nearly two thirds of Americans believe religion to be an important part of their life. The majority of Americans (94%) claim to have a belief in a supreme deity or God. The purpose of this study was to …
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An Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Counselors who Integrate Spirituality and Religion into Therapy with African American Clients: A Phenomenological Study
<p>Spirituality is important when it comes to a client's identity, mental health functioning, treatment planning, recovery, and prevention work. However, in the United States, there tends to be a separation between the sacred and the secular. Integrating spirituality within the therapeutic setting …
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Spirituality in psychotherapy : a hidden dimension : an exploratory study
Many in the caring professions consider spirituality to be a fundamental dimension of human experience and identity. Consequently, some claim that this dimension cannot be ignored in disciplines such as psychotherapy that deals with the human being and with human experience. Moreover, the increase …
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The roles of client religion, counselor religiosity, and spiritual competence in counselors' clinical judgment
… therapists' spiritual/religious beliefs, and therapists' attitudes toward spirituality and religion may play in how therapists conceptualize a prospective client case. The study also explored the role that the construct “spiritual competence” played in moderating the relationship between …
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The Stories We Tell: Narratives of Spiritual Development of Black Undergraduates
… John L. Jackson, Jr. Discourse surrounding religion in the American public sphere, especially as it relates to young adults, primarily exists within church decline narratives; or the declining significance of faith traditions and institutions. Yet, when a framework that dismisses the role of …
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A Sociological Study of Atheism and Naturalism as Minority Identities in Appalachia.
… study aims to provide a sociological understanding of people who hold minority beliefs about spirituality and religion and to improve our sociological and social-psychological understanding of a-religious and alternatively religious people. Data were collected through indepth interviews with …
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Religiosity and spirituality in African American children.
… to augment the current literature on religiosity and spirituality by identifying and systematically measuring the salient variables and underlying constructs regarding spirituality and religion in African American families and their children between the ages of 7 to 12. The study examined …
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Psychological therapists' narratives of spirituality within the context of their clinical practice
… to explore psychological therapists’ understanding of spirituality within the context of their clinical practice, and how their understanding reflects their spiritual sentiments, purposes, valuations and judgments. Narrative interviews were conducted with six individuals, and analysed using …
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Spirituality and alcohol consumption in a general population
This study examined the relationship between spirituality and alcohol consumption in a general population because spirituality is important when it comes to the treatment and continued recovery from addiction. In order to measure spirituality, we used three psychometrically tested measures; The …
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Spirituality and Physical Health: Identifying Possible Mediators Utilizing the Quadripartite Framework of Spirituality
… purpose of this study was to further understand the relationship between spirituality and physical health. Contrary to popular assumption, spirituality and religion do not relate to physical health in the same manner. In this investigation, although religious attendance was significantly …
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Religion and Crime: A Study of Inmates in State and Federal Prisons in the United States.
… crime rates through effective interventions. Spirituality and religion are considered to play a major part in determining an individual's attitude towards committing a crime. This study analyzed if inmates in State and Federal prisons in the US are involved in prison religious activities and …
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Depression and Nigerian-born immigrant women in the United States: A phenomenological study
… immigrant women in the United States and their portrayal of depression. Through face-to-face, semi-structured, audiotaped interviews incorporating open-ended questions and probes to facilitate discussion, the study examined a purposive sample of 19 Nigerian-born immigrant women's …
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Journeying together towards goodness: participant understanding of practices and narratives in a University of the Nations Discipleship Training School
… develops a new hybrid theoretical framework and uses it for an empirical moral inquiry. By investigating participants’ understandings of social practices and narratives in the University of the Nations (UofN) Discipleship Training School (DTS) using a multiple individual case study approach, …
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Hospice Chaplains' Communication With Patients and Their Family Members
Hospice chaplains work with dying patients and their family members as part of the historically valued and often mandated provision of spiritual support in hospice programs. Because hospice chaplains work with families who are facing the extremely challenging prospect of losing a family member in …
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Ascribed and Acquired Identities: Women's Collective Renegotiation of Social and Personal Identity Following Brain Injury
… eleven women's accounts of recovery from and living with brain injury. It is a qualitative depth interview and semi-ethnographic study methodologically grounded in interpretive interactionism and narrative theory. The broad focus is on the ways and contexts in which these women negotiate …
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The Eugenic Sterilization of Puerto Rican Women: A Case of US Interests and Religious/Spiritual Freedom
<p>Between the 1930s and 1970s, approximately one-third of Puerto Rican women of childbearing age (20–49) were sterilized— the highest rate in the world during that time. Driven by U.S. political and economic interests, and underpinned by eugenic ideology, Governor Blanton Winship and President …
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Japanese Worldviews, Ideologies, and Foreign Aid Policy
… research in political science on perception and foreign policy decision-making, Japanese political economy, economic and technological development, foreign aid, and in anthropology on perception, worldview, and international development.</p> <p>The main goal of the research is to answer the …
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An investigation into organisational commitment to spirituality in the workplace.
This study examined the emerging debate on spirituality in the workplace. As spirituality gains impetus, organisations have proactively accommodated the needs of their multi-ethnic and multi-faith workforce and have started integrating spirituality into their policies. The study sought to gauge the …
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An exploration of the patients' lived experience with antineoplastic medicines for colorectal cancer in Malta.
… administered with the intent to relieve symptoms and achieve cure or prolong life. Consequently, patients have to cope with the burden of this treatment in addition to the symptoms of a life-threatening illness. This can be challenging and is poorly understood. The overall aim of this research was …
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