mental health
When you’re questioning your faith after being hurt by your religious community, here are 3 ways to cope
By Christine D. Gonzales-Wong — September 21, 2022
(The Conversation) — A professor of counseling explains how to find therapists and support communities that can help work through these unique challenges.
An interfaith discussion on the role of religion in mental health
By Thalia Plata and Emily Costello — August 18, 2022
(The Conversation) — Academics and religious leaders address the role of faith and community in managing mental health issues in young people and society as a whole.
Religions have long known that getting away from it all is good for the mind, body and spirit
By Kristen Lucken — August 16, 2022
(The Conversation) — Rituals of rest and contemplation are woven into many religious traditions around the world.
Spirituality and service play essential and understudied roles in mental health
By Daniel Bergner — June 22, 2022
(RNS) — Given the walls biomedical psychiatry has run into, it’s time to pay attention to the connections experts are drawing among spirituality, service and mental health.
Clergy of color face unprecedented mental health challenges
By Deepa Bharath and Adelle M. Banks — June 2, 2022
(AP/RNS) — Exhausted faith leaders are left with serious questions about how to care for their own physical and mental well-being while helping congregants in a meaningful way.
How the role and visibility of chaplains changed over the past century
By Wendy Cadge and Michael Skaggs — June 1, 2022
(The Conversation) — Chaplaincy emerged as a professional field in the mid-20th century. In the years since, their roles have evolved and they have also come to include many diverse religious traditions.
Campus ministries, counselors join to tackle mental health
By Giovanna Dell’Orto and Kathryn Post — June 1, 2022
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP/RNS) — On Ivy League campuses, large public institutions and faith-based colleges, chaplains and psychologists are teaming up.
Faith on the ground in Buffalo: Voice Buffalo executive director Denise Walden
By Adelle M. Banks — May 17, 2022
(RNS) — ‘They are some of the matriarchs and the pillars of our community,’ Buffalo minister says of residents killed in attack.
From the cushion to the couch: Buddhism’s powerful influence on psychotherapy
By Ira Rifkin — April 5, 2022
(RNS) — Your therapist might be a Buddhist, and you'd never know it.
Fortitude through faith: The Muslim pandemic experience
By Omar Suleiman, Rania Awaad, and Taimur Kouser — March 31, 2022
(RNS) — Mental health increasingly — and erroneously — operates under the umbrella of secularism.
Can clergy avoid burnout?
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 21, 2022
(RNS) — Religious leaders cannot be everything and they cannot do everything. Ask Mordecai, the hero of Purim.
Study: Clergy feel ill-equipped to help Black and Latino congregants with mental health
By Alejandra Molina — February 9, 2022
(RNS) — Pastors, whether they want to be or not, 'are on the front lines of this mental health crisis,' said an author of the study.
How COVID-19 has made the lives of aspiring clergy more daunting
By Camille Daniels — December 27, 2021
(RNS) — The increasing stressors of being a pastor in a pandemic are affecting how many seminarians are thinking about their mental health and their careers.
Americans are in a mental health crisis – especially African Americans. Can churches help?
By Brad R. Fulton — October 1, 2021
(The Conversation) — More houses of worship are offering mental health programs, especially African American congregations.
Suicide prevention for our youth is doable: We must act now
By Glen Bloomstrom — September 24, 2021
(RNS) — September is National Suicide Prevention Month. And there is no better time for parents, youth leaders, community leaders and clergy to take the step to be trained in suicide prevention measures.
