The Effect of Baseline Patterns of Spiritual Coping, Forgiveness, and Gratitude on the Completion of an Alcohol Addiction Treatment Program

The purpose of this study was to identify distinct profiles of persons beginning alcohol addiction therapy with similar baseline configurations of spiritual coping, forgiveness, and gratitude. The associations between latent profile membership and the completion of therapy were also examined. The sample was composed of 358 alcohol-dependent persons receiving an outpatient treatment program. The Spiritual Coping Questionnaire, the Forgiveness Scale, and the Gratitude Questionnaire were used to assess the baseline levels of spirituality-related variables. Using latent profile analysis, five profiles were identified: (1) both moderately positive and negative dimensions of spirituality (33.2%), (2) moderately positive dimensions of spirituality (21.0%), (3) predominantly negative dimensions of spirituality (20.2%), (4) mixed dimensions of spirituality with the lowest positive religious coping (14.0%), and (5) highly positive dimensions of spirituality (11.6%). Notably, the latent profiles differed in terms of the treatment completion rates. The results suggest the need to carry out a multidimensional assessment of spiritual functioning of persons beginning alcohol addiction therapy to provide treatment that is adjusted to patients’ spiritual potential and deficits.

Introduction to the Core Concepts of Christian Psychotherapy

Christian psychotherapy comes out of the two-thousand year long spiritual practice in Christianity. Its core is based upon the foundations of Christian anthropology, which defines and focuses on the human soul. The purpose of this paper is to establish Christian psychotherapy as a contemporary theory of personality development, with its own method that enables personality development and growth to a complete spiritual self-actualization and self-realization. Christian psychotherapy opens a new perspective towards man’s psychological and spiritual functioning; a new dynamic model is offered for his inner functioning – not only at a psychological, but also at a spiritual level – which is useful and practically applicable with the other trends in psychotherapy. Via a descriptive method, the basic concepts are defined: (1) Stages of spiritual development; (2) A comparative parallel between the stages of spiritual development and the stages of spiritual and mental disorders with clinical psychopathological entities; (3) Primary and secondary function of the mind; (4) The FCP method (systematized by the author), which has a central role, and the client-therapist relationship; The systematization of the spiritual development of personality is found only within the frames of Christian psychotherapy; this type of systematization of the spiritual development – including a parallel comparison with the three stages of spiritual and mental disorders – has been introduced for the first time.

Asuhan Keperawatan Klien dengan Fraktur

Konsep asuhan keperawatan klien dengan fraktur sudah banyak yang telah membahasnya. Namun tidak ada salahnya diulas kembali sebagai sumber bacaan bagi perawat lapangan, agar praktik keperawatan yang dilaksanakan dapat berdasarkan ilmu keperawatan praktis. Trauma muskuskeletal, khususnya fraktur memerlukan pemberian asuhan keperawatan yang komprehensif. Asuhan terutama ditujukan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan dasar klien yang terganggu dan mencegah mengurangi komplikasi terutama terhadap immobilisasi. Pendidikan kesehatan juga dapat diberikan untuk mencegah cedera lebih lanjut sehingga klien secara bertahap dapat mengoptimalkan fungsi bio-psiko-sosio-spiritualnya. The concept of nursing care for client with fracture has been discussed by many authors. But it is always interesting to discuss it as reference for nurses working in the hospital.Musculoskeletal trauma, especially fracture requires a comprehensive nursing care. The purpose of nursing care is to meet the disturbed basic human need of the client and to prevent client from further complication caused by immobilization.The purpose of health education is to prevent the impact of injury and to support the client to obtain the optimal level of bio-psycho-sosio-spiritual functioning.

Spiritual Genograms: A Generational Approach to Assessing Spirituality

Clients' spiritual and religious beliefs are often significantly shaped by family influences, particularly among many minority populations. Spiritual genograms offer an assessment method that highlights the spiritual and religious strengths that may exist within clients' families and depicts how these multi-generational dynamics inform current spiritual functioning. Information is provided on how to construct a spiritual genogram, as well as how to conduct an assessment, elicit spiritual strengths, and shift toward planning interventions. A case study is delineated, a number of spiritually-based interventions that flow from the instrument are reviewed, and sample questions are provided. The paper concludes by offering a number of suggestions as to when spiritual genograms may be particularly applicable.