Using the Bible to Facilitate Treatment of Religious Obsessions in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The professional literature shows that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is not caused by religion; thus, clinicians' removal of religion or religious literature (i.e., the Bible) from the therapeutic process in the name of symptom reduction is unnecessary and may result in lack of engagement...
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Format: | Print Article |
Language: | English |
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2018
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Journal of psychology and christianity
Year: 2018, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 112-124 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Obsessive compulsive disorder
/ Christian
/ Psychotherapy
/ Bible
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IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion HA Bible ZD Psychology |
Further subjects: | B
MENTAL depression
B obsessive-compulsive disorder B DISTRESS (Psychology) B AFFECTIVE disorders B EMOTIONS (Psychology) |