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- Struggling to make spiritual sense of a trauma can cause significant distress because spirituality is one core aspect of cultural diversity that helps inform people's worldviews. Because of this, it may be helpful to directly address religion or spirituality within treatment for trauma.
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Mar 25, 2024 · Struggling to make spiritual sense of a trauma can cause significant distress because spirituality is one core aspect of cultural diversity that helps inform people's worldviews. Because of this, it may be helpful to directly address religion or spirituality within treatment for trauma.
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Given the pervasive roles of spirituality and religiousness in many indi-viduals’ responses to traumatic events and in their efforts to cope with them, attending to the ways in which religion and spirituality impede or foster resil-ience in trauma survivors and the ways that trauma may shape people’s sub-sequent religious or spiritual lives will...
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This volume helps mental health practitioners — many of whom are less religious than their clients — understand the important relationship between trauma and spirituality, and how to best help survivors create meaning out of their experiences.
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Oct 19, 2021 · The aim of this study was to expand the understanding of spirituality and vicarious trauma and vicarious growth by examining the lived experiences of frontline health care providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, or physician assistants) dealing with trauma patients.
- Beth L. Muehlhausen
- 2021
Nurses can help determine whether the patient needs more spiritual care than can reasonably be provided, perhaps obtaining a clergy member to assist at that point. Really, though, it should not be an either-or situation.
- Richard H. Savel, Cindy L. Munro
- 2014
This volume helps mental health practitioners — many of whom are less religious than their clients — understand the important relationship between trauma and spirituality, and how to best help survivors create meaning out of their experiences.
Spirituality can provide solace in the aftermath of trauma as well as resources for coping with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related sequelae. However, traumatic events can also undermine one’s spiritual meaning system, and struggles in this domain might complicate the treatment process.
