What is it about?
This review examines how religious and spiritual involvement relates to ten major psychiatric conditions, finding predominantly protective effects on depression and substance use while documenting mixed or harmful effects depending on the nature of a person's religious experience.
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Why is it important?
Clinicians routinely overlook spirituality in assessment and treatment planning despite the fact that most Americans hold religious beliefs and those beliefs measurably shape how psychiatric symptoms develop, progress, and respond to care.
Perspectives
Religion is not a variable clinicians can afford to ignore. I wrote this because the evidence is there and the clinical integration largely is not, and that gap has real consequences for patients who are either helped or harmed by something their providers never think to ask about.
Dr. Keith Robert Head
Independent Researcher
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This page is a summary of: Spirituality, Religiousness, and Mental Health: A Literature Review of Religion's Impact in Mental Health, International Journal of Social Science Studies, November 2025, Redfame Publishing,
DOI: 10.11114/ijsss.v13i4.7882.
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