Spirituality in Primary Care Settings: Addressing the Whole Person through Christian Mindfulness

Spirituality is integral to the provision of high-quality health and mental healthcare. Despite this, there is limited research on how to assess and address spiritual determinants of health within primary care settings. Many individuals initiate care within primary care settings, and several will on...

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1. VerfasserIn: Cooper, Zach (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Jahr: 2022, Band: 13, Heft: 4
weitere Schlagwörter:B Spirituality
B integrated care
B whole person care
B Christian mindfulness
B Healthcare
B spiritual integration
B primary care behavioral health
B Primary Care
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Zusammenfassung:Spirituality is integral to the provision of high-quality health and mental healthcare. Despite this, there is limited research on how to assess and address spiritual determinants of health within primary care settings. Many individuals initiate care within primary care settings, and several will only receive care from their primary care provider. The high prevalence of individuals receiving care within primary care settings coupled with the positive impact spirituality has on health and mental health reveal the need to care for spiritual needs within primary care settings. Integrated care is a model of treatment that addresses the fragmentation of healthcare by assessing and addressing the psychosocial determinants of health within primary care settings. The structure of integrated care models is designed to treat the biological and psychosocial determinants of health and, as a result, provide suitable context for assessing and addressing spirituality in primary care settings. The purpose of this paper is to (1) summarize the efforts to integrate spirituality within primary care (whole person care models), (2) summarize the integrated care efforts to promote psychosocial integration, (3) highlight Christian mindfulness as a potential form of intervention to address spirituality within integrated care models, and (4) operationalize the delivery of Christian mindfulness within a fully integrated care model. The conclusions from the conceptual review include both practice innovation for the assessment and intervention of spirituality in integrated care as well as potential direction for future research to study Christian mindfulness within integrated care settings.
ISSN:2077-1444
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel13040346