American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.| 2004-09-04 | ISBN: 1585621048 | 179 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

This refreshing new work is a practical overview of religious and spiritual issues in psychiatric assessment and treatment. 11 distinguished contributors assert that everyone has a worldview and that these religious and spiritual variables can be collaborative partners of science, bringing critical insight to assessment and healing to treatment. Unlike other works in this field, which focus primarily on spiritual experience, this clearly written volume focuses on the cognitive aspects of belief and how personal worldview affects the behavior of both patient and clinician. Informative case vignettes and discussions illustrate how assessment, formulation, and treatment principles can be incorporated within different worldviews, including practical clinical information on major faith traditions and on atheist and agnostic worldviews.
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