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Health
Professions 2001
Topics
in Health Professions:
Spirituality and Health
Winter
Semester 2007
 Brick
Johnstone, Ph.D.
110 Ellis Fischel (Wed - Fri): 882-6290
307A Cornell Hall (Mon - Tues): 882-2837
johnstoneg@health.missouri.edu
Class
Time: Tuesdays, 10:00 - 10:50am
Classroom: Arts and Science Building
301
Textbook:
Handbook of the Psychology
of Religion and Spirituality (2005).
Raymond F. Paloutzian and Crystal
L. Park (Eds). New York: The Guilford
Press.
Objectives:
To learn about the scientific relationships
that exist among spirituality, religion,
and health; to learn about different
cultural and religious beliefs and
practices and how they impact individual's
health and health care; and to learn
the current professional issues that
are relevant to spiritual and religious
aspects of health care.
Class
Topics/Readings
Definitions
and Measurement
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1.
January 16: Overview
2.
January 23: Defining and
Measuring Spirituality and Religion
• Chapter 2 - Religiousness
and Spirituality
• Chapter 3 - Measurement
in the Psychology of Religion
and Spirituality: Current Status
and Evaluation
• Chapter 19 - Mystical,
Spiritual, and Religious Experiences
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Genetics/Neuroscience
of Spirituality
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3.
January 30: The Genetics of
Spirituality
• Chapter 14 - The Role of
Personality in Understanding Religious
and Spiritual Constructs
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4.
January 31: The Neurophysiology
of Spirituality
• Chapter 11 - The Neuropsychology
of Religious Experience
5. February
6: The Neuropsychology of Spirituality
Spirituality,
Religion, and Health
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6.
February 13: Spirituality,
Religion, and Physical Health
• Chapter 24 - Do Religion
and Spirituality Influence Health?
7.
February 20: Spirituality
and Psychoneuroimmunology
8.
February 27: Spirituality,
Religion, and Mental Health
• Chapter 25 - Relationships
of Religiosity and Spirituality
with Mental Health and Psychopathology.
9.
March 6: Spirituality as
a Coping Mechanism
• Chapter 26 - The Religious
Dimension of Coping: Advances
in Theory, Research, and Practice.
10.
March 13: Midterm
11.
March 20: Prayer, Meditation,
and Health
• Chapter 20 - Religious
Practice, Ritual, and Prayer
12.
March 27: Spring Break
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Spirituality,
Religion, and Culture
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13.
April 3: Health Care, Religion,
and Culture I
14.
April 10: Health Care, Religion,
and Culture II
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Spirituality,
Religion, and Professional Issues
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14.
April 17: Research in Religion
and Health: What is Appropriate?
• Chapter 28 - From Advocacy
to Science: The Next Steps in
Workplace Spirituality Research.
15.
April 24: Professional Training
Guidelines in Religion/Spirituality
• Chapter 27 - The Psychology
of Religion in Clinical and
Counseling Psychology.
16.
May 1: Spirituality, Religion,
and Health: What does the future
hold?
• Chapter 30 - One Step
Toward Integration and an Expansive
Future.
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Class Requirements:
1. Regular Attendance
2. Regular Participation
3. 1 Class project
4. Midterm examination
5. Final examination
i. introductions
ii. Expectations
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attend
- participate
- learn
- open minded and respectful
- not about God, about human
experience of religion/spirituality |
ii. Expectations
iii. requirements
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read chapters/articles
- midterm
- final
- occasional class projects |
iv. Overview
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definitions/measurement (take
several tests)
- genetics/neuroscience (God
Gene; Twin studies)
- neurophysiology (brain during
meditation/prayer)
- Neuropsychology (brain injury
study)
- Spirituality and Health (more
the better; church attendance;
negative authoritative is worse)
- Psychoneuroimmunology (mind
controls neuron controls immuno
leads to health; Chinese moon
harvest, jewish and Sabbath)
- Spirituality and mental health
(abnormal delusions; spirituality
as coping, stress management)
- Prayer and health (is it helpful;
subjective yes, objective, probably
not)
- Culture, religion, and health
(need to know if health professional)
- Professional training (current
guides, past taboos)
- Future directions |
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