Hansong ZhangJoshua N. HookDaryl R. Van TongerenEdward B. Davis...
16页
查看更多>>摘要：Traumatic events, such as natural disasters, often lead to significant resource loss for survivors, which can negatively affect emotional well-being. In these situations, it is common for people to draw on their religious or spiritual faith to cope with their pain and struggle. One construct that has received increased attention within the field of religious/ spiritual coping is spiritual fortitude (SF). SF refers to one's ability to draw on spiritual resources to transcend negative emotions in the face of stressors (Van Tongeren et al., 2019). In this review, we analyze eight empirical studies with 3,455 total participants. Specifically, we explore the relationship between SF and mental health and well-being, with a particular focus on its role in traumatic contexts (e.g., natural disasters). SF has been found to demonstrate a series of positive mental health benefits including higher meaning in life, spiritual well-being, positive religious coping, and perceived posttrau-matic growth. We discuss areas for future research and implications for clinical practice, with specific consideration to coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hansong ZhangJoshua N. HookAdam S. HodgeSteven P. Coomes...
17页
查看更多>>摘要：The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect countless individuals. Traumatic events like COVID-19 can often lead to significant resource loss and negatively affect mental health. As a result, people often go through various types of struggles, including those that are religious or spiritual (e.g., existential doubt). Also, in the wake of trauma, people often try to engage in coping strategies, including drawing on religious or spiritual resources, to work through negative emotions in the face of adversity. The current qualitative study explored religious and spiritual struggles and coping strategies in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants (N = 172) described the types of religious and spiritual struggles they experienced, as well as the types of coping strategies they engaged in. Four themes of religious and spiritual struggles emerged: interpersonal struggles, moral struggles, doubt struggles, and ultimate meaning struggles. Four themes of coping strategies emerged: psychological coping, health-related coping, religious/spiritual (R/S) coping, and interpersonal/social coping. These themes suggested a wide range of R/S struggles and coping strategies and provided implications for the intersection between R/S and trauma as well as patterns of coping in a pandemic context.
查看更多>>摘要：While the COVID-19 global pandemic has wrecked havoc for over a year in ways that we have not seen in our lifetimes, many important positive lessons have been learned during these tumultuous and what has felt like apocalyptic times. Upon close reflection, four critical and positive lessons were learned by this author that have implications for how we productively move forward in our efforts to provide spiritually and religiously informed psychotherapy services both now and in the future. These important lessons include the benefits of telehealth and "telespirit" services as well as highlighting the advantages of reflection, discernment, and resetting our life priorities. Although the pandemic took many lives and created economic chaos for countless people across the globe, several positive developments emerged that will provide an opportunity for better spiritually informed clinical practice in the future.
Hansong ZhangJoshua N. HookAdam S. HodgeDavid K. Mosher...
13页
查看更多>>摘要：Survivors of disasters or traumatic experiences often experience religious/spiritual (R/S) and mental health consequences (e.g., anxiety, depression). In coping with these negative experiences, people draw on a variety of coping strategies. Past research highlights the role of R/S coping as an important factor for navigating disasters, traumatic experiences, and R/S struggles. One promising, newly researched R/S coping strategy is spiritual fortitude (SF), which refers to one's ability to draw on transcendent, spiritual resources to deal with negative emotions when facing severe stressors. In this study, we recruited 295 adults who reported experiencing a disaster. Results suggested that resource loss was positively associated with both R/S struggles and mental health symptoms. Furthermore, SF moderated the relationship between resource loss and (a) R/S struggles and (b) post-traumatic stress disorder, but not the relationships between resource loss and (a) anxiety or (b) depression. We discussed limitations, areas for future research, and practical implications.
Sarah BowenCameron LaueDebesh MallikVanessa C. Somohano...
9页
查看更多>>摘要：Buddhism and radical behaviorism have distinctly different origins and were formed and practiced in unique and diverse cultures and contexts. Differences in their approaches to understanding and changing human behavior are apparent. While many Buddhist practices focus on clear understanding of the truths underlying human experience through systematic observation of internal processes, radical behaviorism has historically focused more on observation of external, objectively observable events to understand human behavior, and manipulation of external contingencies surrounding an individual to effect change. Despite these differences, however, these two perspectives and systems of understanding contain several commonalities, including emphasis on systematic observation and empirical learning, a critique of misconceptions of the "self" as separate and static, and human behavior as a function of learning history or conditioning. When overlayed, these approaches have the potential to better inform our understanding of both the causes underlying suffering, and of how to better the human experience.
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