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- Lots of research have come up in recent years
that show that,
you know, people who participate in religious activities
have a just a better health generally.
Physical and mental health, generally.
People who are more religious
and they participate regularly
in their religious activities
are physically healthier,
they have healthier lifestyles,
they require fewer health services.
That's just broadly speaking.
But then, women research that have looked at women
who attended weekly religious services
found that they had lower mortality
compared to those who did not.
And the more frequent they attended the religious services,
the lower the mortality rate.
- Wow.
- Which is really interesting.
Attenders at religious services people found,
were associated with decrease in depression.
And a six fold reduction in suicide risk.
- Wow.
- So just the subjecting of these ideas into research
is showing these benefits that high intrinsic religiosity,
often leads to more rapid remission of depression
to those individuals who have depression.
And people also who have this high intrinsic religiosity,
they adapt more successfully to stress
and more quickly than those who do not have it.
So that's just generally looking at it that.
That there's a general overall general benefit
to physical health and mental health
when you participate more in religion, spiritual,
and you have faith.
But the types of treatment that we're talking about now
that I'm excited about is the fact that
people have compared for example,
existing treatment modalities
like cognitive behavioral therapy
on the one hand.
And then cognitive behavioral therapy,
plus religious augmented with spirituality
and compared the two of them.
They found that religious CBT models for depression,
or spiritually focused therapy generally,
religious echo therapy for depression and anxiety,
or spiritually augmented cognitive behavioral therapy
have all been more effective
than the psychotherapy alone by itself.
Than the cognitive behavioral therapy alone by itself.
Spiritually augmented cognitive behavioral therapy
has been very beneficial
in decreasing hopelessness and despair,
improving collaboration of care with patients,
decreasing relapse rates,
enhancing functioning and recovery for patients.
Now, they have been found to improve depression,
they've been found to improve anxiety,
psychological problems, psychosomatic problems.
But what is actually really interesting
is that, two things are interesting about this therapy.
The therapist who is non-religious,
a non-religion therapist have actually been found to have
more effective at providing this care.
- Wow.
- than religious therapist.
I was really blown away by that.
- Wow. Non-expected.
- So, yeah, there's the most recent one that came out
was it last year or this year? I'm not sure now.
Where group psychotherapy.
So a group psychotherapy was carried out in hospitals,
in residential homes and intensive treatment programs.
And that group psychotherapy, they added spirituality to it.
So it's spiritual psychotherapy in all these areas.
They also found that the therapist
who was not religious had a higher effectiveness
at this than others.
The other thing they found was that everyone improved
whether they had religious affiliation or not.
They all improved.
They had significant benefits regardless.
Of setting, whether the setting was in a hospital,
in residential home or in outpatient intensive treatment
and also regardless of the patient's connection
or lack thereof to spiritual beliefs.
So this is really exciting, I think.
- Yeah.
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