المؤلفون: Steward, Robbie J., Mille, Matthew A., Roberts, Amber, Slavin, Rebecca, Breland, Alfiee, Neil, Douglas

المصدر: Religion & Education; Spring2007, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p27-54, 28p

مصطلحات موضوعية: RELIGION, CHRISTIANITY, COUNSELING, EDUCATION, PSYCHOLOGY & religion, RELIGIOUS psychology, FAITH development, PSYCHOLOGICAL distress, BREAST cancer

مستخلص: The article presents a brief overview of the empirical studies that attend to the influence of religion in client characteristics, efficacy of treatment modalities and on practitioners' counseling competence. A number of empirical studies that support the notion that religious devoutness is construed as pathology within psychology. No significant differences were found between religious and non-religious students in prevalence of depression, shame or psychological well-being. Religious female clients in early stages of breast cancer reported religion as having a mediating effect of optimism on distress.