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Religious coping in highly religious psychiatric inpatients
- Author:
- PIEPER Joseph Z. P.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Religion and Culture, 7(4), December 2004, pp.349-363.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study among highly religious psychiatric patients in a mental hospital in the Netherlands focused on the following issues: their religious and spiritual beliefs and activities; their religious coping activities, measured using Pargament's three coping styles and a positive religious coping scale; the influence of religious coping on psychological and existential well-being; and the predictive value of general religiousness, as compared with religious coping activities, regarding psychological and existential well-being. For this population of inpatients, religion had a positive influence on their ways of dealing with mental problems; religious coping was positively correlated with existential and psychological well-being. General religiousness as well as religious coping were positively correlated with existential well-being, whereas psychological well-being primarily was predicted by positive religious coping. Results are discussed in the context of theoretical notions of religious coping, addressing in particular the positive influence of religious beliefs, relying on God, religious activities and religious social support in psychological and existential times of crisis.
From a ‘state mental Hospital' to new homes in the city: longitudinal research into the use of intramural facilities by long-stay care-dependent psychiatric clients in Amsterdam
- Authors:
- DUURKOOP Pim, VAN DYCK Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 39(1), February 2003, pp.77-92.
- Publisher:
- Springer
In 1986, the traditional psychiatric hospital where 70% of Amsterdam's intramural treatment took place, was closed down. The progress of two groups of long-stay patients was followed for five years after their transferral to new small-scale facilities in Amsterdam. The ADL (activities of daily living) functioning of the most severely impaired clients improved and their psychiatric symptoms decreased, while no improvement was seen in the functioning of the more independent clients. This evaluation makes clear that the improvement of the severely disabled patients depends on the intensity of care given. The improvement in the new facilities is no guarantee for a further development into a less care-intensive environment. The more independent clients, however, could more easily be transferred to less care-intensive facilities.