Calling for Awareness and Knowledge: Perspectives on Religiosity, Spirituality and Mental Health in a Religious Sample from Portugal (a Mixed-Methods Study)

Recent studies have demonstrated that when suffering or in psychological distress, religious clients tend to recover faster and with better outcomes when mental health professionals (MHPs) seek to integrate their clients’ religious beliefs and practices in psychotherapy. As described in the literatu...

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Authors: Freire, Jaclin’ (Author) ; Moleiro, Carla (Author) ; Rosmarin, David H. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2016
In: Open theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 681–699
Further subjects:B religious clients’ perspectives
B mixed-methods approach
B Psychotherapy
B Multicultural
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