Mental Health, Religion & Culture

EDITORS

BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR

Currently, work in the expanding field of mental health and religion is published in a very large number of journals covering a wide range of disciplines. The growing number of professionals and academics for whom religion and culture in relation to mental health is a major focus have difficulty in keeping track. This journal will provide a forum and a single point of reference.

This journal will publish empirically-based work exploring the relationships between mental health and aspects of religion and culture, and discussing conceptual and philosophical aspects. Contributions are encouraged from a range of disciplines: psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, sociology and other social sciences, philosophy, theology and religious studies, community and social work, counselling and pastoral work.

Published papers will include clinical and other case material, observational and interview material, survey, questionnaire, psychometric and other quantified data. There is scope for scholarly review and presentation of historical material, religious texts and other textual material. Systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and theoretical and philosophical analysis are welcomed. The journal will publish papers on topics such as:

• When and how do religious behaviours become psychiatric symptoms?
• When and how are religious behaviours seen as psychiatric symptoms?
• Religious prescriptions regarding mood
• Cultural variations in psychiatric disease entities: religious influences
• Religious coping methods and their efficacy
• Religious healing and mental disorders and their efficacy
• Religious activities and their mental health consequences
• Religious influences on childrearing and mental health consequences
• Religiously-influenced beliefs about the causes of mental disorders
• Religious group incorporation (conversion) and exiting: mental health consequences
• Religious aspects of identity and relations with mental health
• Religious influences on interpersonal behaviour: mental health consequences
• Religious issues in psychotherapy, psychiatry, clinical psychology and counselling
• Spirit possession and mental health
• Spirituality and physical and mental health
• Religion, magic and witchcraft: relations to mental health
• Delusions and hallucinations
• The role of religious personnel in the multi-disciplinary mental health team
  
  

Abstracting

Mental Health Religion & Culture is indexed in Caredata Abstracts, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Theology Digest and Sociological Abstracts.

Subscriptions