Religion and Coping in Mental Health Care

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-420-1997-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: International Series in the Psychology of Religion

Joseph Pieper and Marinus van Uden have proposed a book consisting of previously published papers on the topics of religion, coping, and mental health care. It covers quite a bit of territory: the complex relationships between religion and mental health, surveys that present the views of therapists and patients about the interface between religion and mental health, a case study of a religious patient struggling with psychological problems, empirical studies of religious coping among various groups, and a method for teaching the clinical psychology of religion.
Although the papers are diverse, they are unified by several themes. First, the papers convey a balanced approach to religion and psychology. They speak to the potentially positive and negative contributions religion can make to health and well-being. Second, several of the papers focus on the role of religious coping among patients in the Netherlands. This focus is noteworthy since the large majority of this theory and research has been limited to the USA. Third, they underscore the value of a cross-cultural approach to the field. Their surveys point to the importance of religious/worldview perspectives to many patients (and therapists) in the Netherlands, even though the culture is more secularised than the USA. However, their papers also suggest that the manifestation of these religious/worldview perspectives may take different shape in the Netherlands. Fourth, the papers have clinical relevance. The case history of the obsessive-compulsive patient by Van Uden (ch. 4) contains an excellent example of the way in which religious resources can be accessed to counter dysfunctional behaviours.
This volume shows initial effort in a newly emerging area of study. It is encouraging to see a significant body of research and practice on the psychology of religion and coping coming out of the Netherlands. It could stimulate further advances in a more cross-culturally sensitive, clinical psychology of religion.

Kenneth Pargament
Professor of Psychology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio,USA.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pieper, Joseph

Uden, Marinus van

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ch. 1: Mental Health and Religion: A Complex Relationship
Ch. 2: Religion in Mental Health Care: Patients’ Views
Ch. 3: Religion in Mental Health Care: Psychotherapists’ Views
Ch. 4: Psychotherapy and Religious Problems: Illustration by Means of a Case History
Ch. 5: Religious Coping in Two Samples of Psychiatric Inpatients
Ch. 6: “When I Find Myself in Times of Trouble …”: Pargament’s Religious Coping Scales in the Netherlands
Ch. 7: “Bridge over Troubled Water”: Further Results Regarding The Receptive Coping Scale
Ch. 8: Clinical Psychology of Religion. A Training Model
Bibliography
Subject Index
About the authors

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Joseph Z.T. Pieper (1953) is assistant professor of psychology of religion and pastoral psychology at the Department of Theology at Utrecht University and at the Catholic Theological University Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Prof. dr. Marinus H.F. van Uden (1952) is professor of clinical psychology of religion at Tilburg University and Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychotherapist.