You may experience greater confidence, self-esteem, and self-control. It can help you make sense of your experiences in life. Spirituality is a central part of many cultures. It can be just as important to someone with intellectual disability, mental illness, dementia, or head injury as it is to anyone else.
It may become more important in times of emotional stress, physical and mental illness, loss, grief, or about to die. A body of research evidence indicates that spirituality plays an important role in the treatment of medical and psychological conditions (Stanard et al. The meta-analytic results of 31 studies investigating spiritually oriented psychotherapies provide empirical evidence of their benefits for people suffering from various psychological conditions, such as anxiety, eating disorders, depression, and stress (Smith et al. Spiritual health has a significant effect on coping with and recovering from illness.
Mental health indicators depend largely on spiritual health. Identifying the spiritual needs of patients and applying appropriate methods of care can reduce the complications of mental disorders in chronic patients. The type of education served as a criterion for dividing students into classes according to different approaches to physical health and the human body or to psychosocial health and the human mind and spirit, which, in turn, were expected to show a discrepancy in terms of spirituality and health-related behavior. Contemporary contributions to awareness describe positive and causal associations between spiritual well-being and mental health (Saad et al.
This distinction in self-referential awareness has recently re-emerged in neurocognitive science, particularly in experimental studies investigating the phenomenological self and consciousness. According to several researchers, personal growth, purpose in life, self-acceptance, and environmental dominance form a single scale. Ryff created a multidimensional construction of well-being, based on concepts such as Buhler's basic life tendencies (193), Erikson's psychosocial stages (195), Neugarten's personality changes (197), Jahoda's positive mental health criteria (195), Jung's account of individuation (193), Allport's formulation of maturity (196), Rogers' description of the fully functioning person (196), and Maslow's notion of self-realization (196). This is a treatment technique that incorporates spiritual values into cognitive behavioral therapy, which was developed and promoted at the University of Sydney.
Spirituality is a central construct, therapeutic factor, and mechanism of change inherent to 12SP (Kelly et al. In addition, very few studies have been conducted on the impact of spirituality on health-related behavior, although it was recognized that the first was one of the four dimensions of health (Harris et al. In a survey conducted in Australia, the vast majority of patients with psychiatric illnesses wanted their therapists to know their spiritual beliefs and needs and believed that their spiritual practices helped them to cope better. The results indicate that both spiritual and health-related behaviors were associated with psychological well-being.
Spirituality and health-related behaviors can play an important role in defining psychological well-being. Modern university curricula often lack deep philosophical content, which should play an important role in shaping the spirituality of young people. A variety of cultural factors, such as religious and spiritual beliefs, can have significant effects on the prevalence of stress, anxiety, and depression in patients with chronic illnesses.
