Integrating Religion and Spirituality into Clinical Practice
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2015) | Viewed by 149560
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mind-body medicine approaches; spirituality and health; quality of life; coping; questionnaire development; integrative medicine; clinical studies; health service research; spiritual dryness; awe
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2. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Basel, 4037 Basel, Switzerland
3. Research Institute for Spirituality and Health RISH, 4900 Langenthal, Switzerland
4. Senior Consultant, Clinic SGM Langenthal, 4900 Langenthal, Switzerland
Interests: conceptual issues in whole person medicine; integrating religion and spirituality into clinical practice; impact of R/S on the outcome of holistic treatment approaches; spirituality and cardiovascular diseases; spirituality and pain
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Special Issue Information
The topic of the special issue covers the topic of the 4th European Conference on Religion, Spirituality and Health ECRSH14 (see www.ecrsh.eu) in Malta May 2014: “Integrating Religion and Spirituality into Clinical Practice”. This special issue documents the European conference, but is open to related topics continuing the discussion.
Prof. Dr. Arndt Büssing
Dr. med. René Hefti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- spirituality
- religion
- health
- clinical practice
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