Handbook of Religion and Health

by Harold G. Koenig

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The Handbook of Religion and Mental Health is a useful resource for mental health professionals, religious professionals, and counselors. The book describes how religious beliefs and practices relate to mental health and influence mental health care. It presents research on the association between religion and personality, coping behavior, anxiety, depression, psychoses, and successes in psychotherapy and includes discussions on specific religions and their perspectives on mental health. Key show more Features* Provides a useful resource for religious and mental health professionals show less

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Harold G. Koenig, MD is on the faculty at Duke as professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and associate professor of medicine. Dr. Koenig is also director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health at Duke University Medical Center, and is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr. show more Koenig has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with over four hundred scientific peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and more than forty books in print or in preparation. He has given invited testimony to both the U S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on the role of religion in public health, and is the recipient of the 2012 Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association. show less

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Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
DDC/MDS
291.1ReligionOther religions[Formerly: General Religious Topics][formerly: Religious mythology, general classes of religion, interreligious relations and attitudes, social theology. Relocated to 201]
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BL65 .M4 .K646Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionReligions. Mythology. RationalismReligions. Mythology. RationalismPhilosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion
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English
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Paper, Ebook
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