Church: An Overlooked Mental-Health Resource
In a multi-perspective survey of mental-health consumer needs, 50% of the stakeholders in the Alaska mental-health system identified "participation in church or religious activities" as important. However, the publicly supported mental-health service system has a tradition of rarely using...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and health |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[1998]
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| In: |
Journal of religion and health
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| Further subjects: | B
Traditional Avoidance
B Potential Resource B Psychiatric Rehabilitation B Religious Activity B Service System |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | In a multi-perspective survey of mental-health consumer needs, 50% of the stakeholders in the Alaska mental-health system identified "participation in church or religious activities" as important. However, the publicly supported mental-health service system has a tradition of rarely using church-based resources for its clients. In today's climate of diminishing government, this may be the time for publicly supported mental-health and other social-service providers to rethink their traditional avoidance of church and religious activities. For many consumers, church and religious activities may be a considerable potential resource within the continuum of resources needed for psychiatric rehabilitation. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1022909016746 |