Annals of Behavioral Medicine: Spirituality, Religiousness, and Health: From Research to Clinical (Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Vol 24, Number 1, 2002)

The impetus for this special issue arose from a panel presentation on spirituality, religiousness, and health at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Together, the articles provide readers with an appreciation of the numerous research and clinical challenges involved in understanding the impact of spiritual beliefs and practices on health, and the creative approaches being taken to address them. Spirituality, religiousness, and health: from research to clinical practice -- Paul J. Mills Spirituality and health: what's the evidence and what's needed? -- Carl E. Thoresen, and Alex H.S. Harris Claims about religious involvement and health outcomes -- Richard P. Sloan, Emilia Bagiella The daily spiritual experience: development, theoretical descriptions, reliability, exploratory factor analysis, and preliminary construct validity using health-related data -- Lynn G. Underwood, Jeanne A. Teresi The Ironson-Woods spirituality/religiousness index is associated with long survival, health behaviors, less distress, and low cortisol in people with HIV/AIDS -- Gail Ironson, George F. Solomon, Elizabeth G. Balbin, Connal O'Cleirigh, and Annie George, Mahendra Kumar, David Larson, Teresa E. Woods Measuring spiritual well-being in people with cancer: the functional assessment of chronic illness therapy: spiritual well-being scale (FACIT-Sp) -- Amy H. Peterman, George Fitchett, Marianne J. Brady, Lesbia Hernandez, David Cella Correlates of self-perception of spirituality in American adults -- Leila Shaabi, and Lynda H. Powell, Marc A. Musick, Kenneth I. Pargament, Carl E. Thoresen, David Williams, Lynn Underwood, Marcia A. Ory Should clinicians incorporate positive sprituality into their practices? What does the evidence say? -- Walter L. Larimore, Michael Parker, Marilyn Crowther The witches' brew of spirituality and medicine -- Raymond J. lawrence. This is a study of spirituality, religiousness, and health and looks at topics including: religious involvement and health outcomes; the daily spiritual experience scale; and HIV/AIDS.