Title: The Positive Link Between Spirituality and Mental Health
Headings: The Connection Between Spirituality and Mental Health
The Connection Between Spirituality and Mental Health
Is There a Connection between Faith and Mental Health?
What Is Spiritual Health?
Mental Health as It Relates to Spiritual Health
How Can People Invest More Time in Their Spirituality and Mental Health?
Have You Been Ignoring Your Spirit?
About Kristina Robb-Dover

Content: In a similar vein, addressing spiritual concerns during treatment helps some people but not everyone. For many people, though, spiritual beliefs and practices do serve as an important coping tool for recovery. Mental health is not a choice, and recovery looks different for each person. But there has long been a discussion in both the scientific and faith-based communities about the connection between spirituality and mental health, whether it exists, and how it can hurt or help with recovery. According to the American Psychological Association, about 80 percent of people have some form of spiritual belief. Failing to address them in therapy is ignoring an important aspect of these people’s lives. Is There a Connection between Faith and Mental Health? All across the country, centers that offer mental health and addiction therapies are embracing holistic treatment models–models that address the individual’s physical, mental, and spiritual needs. There are also treatment programs that focus more on faith than on evidence-based treatments to support recovery from a mental health or addiction problem. These faith-based programs tend to focus on one form of faith, but not always.