Religiosity And Mental Health Services An Exploratory Study

Moreno, O., Cardemil, E. (2013). Religiosity and mental health services: An exploratory study of help seeking among Latinos. Journal of Latina/o Psychology, 1(1), 53. A qualitative study of 17 religious Latino men and women evaluated religiosity, coping with adversity, and facilitators to seeking different types of mental health services. Participants were found to prefer religious counseling services that were consistent with their religious beliefs, circumstances that were exceptions included encountering serious mental health problems and encountering problems believed to be biological in nature. There was a strength in the study from the use of qualitative methodology and thematic analysis to code the interviews of the participants.†¦show more content†¦In a future qualitative study there could be distinctions made between levels of help seeking and age in participants. A study that included levels of acculturation and compared them to different minority ethnic populations would allow for higher validity of the results. The idea of preference for mental health services coming from a prior relationship was discussed in this study. This is an interesting idea to evaluate further in meeting the needs of this people group and respecting the counselor ethics code on dual relationships. When evaluating the relationship with religious counselors the positive feelings were found to come from positive preexisting relationships. An evaluation of social support in this population is needed as this study found that the social networks were a strength that participants received from their religious participation. Parker, M., Lee Roff, L., Klemmack, D. L., Koenig, H. G., Baker, P., Allman, R. M. (2003). Religiosity and mental health in southern, community-dwelling older adults. Aging Mental Health, 7(5), 390-397. This study evaluated the interaction effect of organized religiosity, non-organized religiosity, and intrinsic religiosity on general mental health and depression. In a random stratified sample of 1000 participants from Alabama counties those who scored high in all three dimensions of religiosity reported fewer depression symptoms and better mental health. Generally speaking the greatest strength of this studyShow MoreRelatedOpenness in Personality10561 Words   |  43 Pagesstyles of thinking are useful in different environments. The intellectual style of the open person may serve a professor well, but research has shown that closed thinking is related to superior job performance in police work, sales, and a number of service occupations. Openness to experience is one of the domains which are used to describe human personality in the Five Factor Model[1][2] Openness involves active imagination, aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for varietyRead MoreMoral decadence among teenagers6921 Words   |  28 Pagesof the Sunnah, one will be able to abide the nowadays moral challenges. 2. Literature Review Studies on awareness and attitudes are among the favorite type of research in the field of social science. Its being frequently used has made the exact definition of awareness been left undetermined. Nevertheless, the term of awareness is perpetually accompanied with the level of knowledge, as seen the studies of Aadam T. Aris (2012), Joyce K.H. Nga (2010) and Indrani R. Halady, 2010), or with certain Read MoreOcd - Symptoms, Causes, Treatment131367 Words   |  526 Pagesseverity of obsessive and compulsive symptoms. Dr. Clark has received a number of research grants to study the cognitive basis of emotional disorders, the most recent being a Canadian federal grant to investigate intentional control of unwanted intrusive thoughts. He is also a founding member of the Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group, an international research group devoted to the study of the cognitive aspects of OCD, and the past Associate Editor of Cognitive Therapy and Research.