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By Augustine Meier, Thomas St. James O'Connor, Peter L. VanKatwyk
Spirituality and overall healthiness: Multidisciplinary Explorations examines the connection among health/well-being and spirituality. Chap-lains and pastoral counsellors provide evidence-based study at the value of spirituality in holistic well-being care, and practitioners within the fields of occupational treatment, medical psychology, nursing, and oncology proportion how spirituality enters into their therapeutic practices. distinct for its variety, this assortment explores the connection among biomedical, mental, and non secular issues of view approximately future health and therapeutic.
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The cognitive theory and treatment of depression illustrates how theological material can be addressed in a therapeutic situation without damaging the client’s faith and without the therapist proselytizing. A BRIEF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE At the beginning of the twentieth century, religion was an important focus for the newly emerging science of psychology. Major researchers of this period included Edwin Starbuck, William James, G. Stanley Hall, and George Coe, all of whom contributed to establishing the importance of studying religious phenomena (Arveson, 1992).
Moreover, there is no explanation offered as to more fundamental questions such as what makes an experience religious? And who adjudicates that claim? Without a firm theoretical base that addresses such questions, there is the danger that measures of religious orientation may involve the “religification” of personality differences (Van Wicklin, 1990). Finally, the population from which samples have been drawn is overwhelmingly made up of Christian college students. It would require A Critical Dialogue between Theology and Psychology 27 some extensive rewording of orientation scales to accommodate faith expressions other than Christian (Van Wicklin, 1990).
Medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, psychiatry, physiotherapy, and most of the other health care professions have adopted empirical research evidence as the basis for their professional practice. Research evidence, in this 11 12 FAITH P ERSPECTIVES AND C HALLENGES view, ought to justify and inform the practice. This approach is known as evidence-based research, and was initially developed at McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences (Donald, 1992; Rosenberg & Donald, 1995; O’Connor & Meakes, 1998; McKibbon, 1999).