Positive effects of spirituality in facilitating recovery for people with severe mental illness
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Spirituality, Recovery, Mental IllnessAbstract
This study aims at exploring positive impacts of spirituality on helping people with severe mental illness to overcome loss and despair in recovery. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with six Chinese people having severe mental illness who relied on spir- ituality to facilitate their recovery. Five themes of spirituality are identified helping individuals to overcome profound loss and despair in recovery, including: positive meaning towards mental illness; hope for recovery; forgiveness; social support, and spiritual coping.
Spirituality is found to have positive effects on mental health recovery. Benefits of spiritual interventions, e.g. forgiveness therapy, on mental health recovery worthwhile further study.
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