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- Title
Religion and spirituality.
- Authors
Worthington, Everett L.; Hook, Joshua N.; Davis, Don E.; McDaniel, Michael A.
- Abstract
Many clients highly value religious and spiritual (R/S) commitments, and many psychotherapists have accommodated secular treatments to R/S perspectives. We meta-analyzed 51 samples from 46 studies ( N = 3,290) that examined the outcomes of religious accommodative therapies and nonreligious spirituality therapies. Comparisons on psychological and spiritual outcomes were made to a control condition, an alternate treatment, or a subset of those studies that used a dismantling design (similar in theory and duration of treatment, but including religious contents). Patients in R/S psychotherapies showed greater improvement than those in alternate secular psychotherapies both on psychological ( d =.26) and on spiritual ( d = .41) outcomes. Religiously accommodated treatments outperformed dismantling-design alternative treatments on spiritual ( d = .33) but not on psychological outcomes. Clinical examples are provided and therapeutic practices are recommended. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 67:204-214, 2011.
- Subjects
PSYCHOTHERAPY; THERAPEUTICS; MENTAL health personnel; MENTAL health counseling; ALTERNATIVE medicine
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2011, Vol 67, Issue 2, p204
- ISSN
0021-9762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jclp.20760