Medium-term religious support program applied to suicidal psychiatric patients
Medium-term religious support program applied to suicidal psychiatric patients

Summary/Abstract: Psychiatric literature generally recognizes the importance of religion and spirituality in the care of religious psychiatric patients. In this work we aimed to investigate the influence of a supportive religious program on religious patients with suicidal ideation. The results confirmed the theoretical predictions of the psychiatric literature regarding the broad positive value of a complementary religious support applied to religious psychiatric patients. A potential negative effect of the most influential Christian Orthodox religious practices used in the therapy of suicidal patients was also noted. These findings may have significant implications for medium and long term psychiatric interventions in faith based settings.

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