Spiritual understandings of psychosis: the perspectives of spiritual care staff

Pathologizing spiritual beliefs has been an ongoing challenge in mental health services. Spiritual care services have been working alongside clinicians in discerning psychosis-like experiences that present with a spiritual or religious content. This study aimed to explore how spiritual care staff ma...

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Auteur principal: Al Taher, Reham (Auteur)
Collaborateurs: Fox, Andrew ; Wilson, Carol
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: 2024
Dans: Journal of spirituality in mental health
Année: 2024, Volume: 26, Numéro: 4, Pages: 368–387
Sujets non-standardisés:B Psychosis
B Chaplaincy
B Spirituality
B Soins palliatifs spirituels
B voice-hearing
B IPA
B Qualitative
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Résumé:Pathologizing spiritual beliefs has been an ongoing challenge in mental health services. Spiritual care services have been working alongside clinicians in discerning psychosis-like experiences that present with a spiritual or religious content. This study aimed to explore how spiritual care staff make sense of experiences otherwise termed as “psychosis” by interviewing a multi-faith sample of six participants using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Participants acknowledged “psychosis” as a label applied to certain experiences that are spiritual in nature, emphasizing holisticism. Mental health services were described as predominantly biomedical and that spiritual care integration requires conceptual, collaborative, and practical considerations.
ISSN:1934-9645
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of spirituality in mental health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/19349637.2023.2239799