Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is the most common resource people rely on when faced with trauma?
Spirituality
Spirituality is intimately connected with what of most people?
Personal values
What percent of american believe in God?
95%
What fraction of people are affiliated with a religious organization?
2/3
How can spirituality be involved in the coping process?
Stable resource
Intervention
Coping response
Outcome
How can your coping choice affect you?
Physically
Psychologically
Socially
What does spirituality provide people?
A variety of pathways for living
What is the definition of coping?
A process such as a search for significance in times of stress that is goal oriented and value driven
What do people strive for and regain during coping strategies?
Strive for meaning and enhanced spirituality
Regain a sense of control or strengthened intimate connections
What is a person’s pursuit during coping?
pursuit towards significance or towards goals worthy of pursuit
What is the definition of spirituality?
a search for the sacred
What are other words that can used for search in the spirituality definition?
efforts to discover
experience
conserve
transform the sacred
What is the definition of sacred?
Those things considered holy or divine
Can sacred things be non theistic?
Yes- life force, or energy can be considered sacred
What is the definition of institutional religion?
Organized beliefs and practices based on a social institution and related to the sacred
What is the definition of spiritual orienting system?
The worldview that people draw from as a foundation for their lives.
What does the spiritual orienting system usually consist of?
Typical behavior Attitudes Values Patterns to relating to others Beliefs Personality
Which famous psychologist considered spirituality as detrimental to psychological health?
Freud
Why did Freud think spirituality detrimental?
It propagates irrational belief or it functions as a defense mechanism (denial)
Avoiding anxiety
passively coping with stress and trauma
What is the first stereotype of spirituality?
Spirituality is a strategy to avoid anxiety
What are the arguments against the 1st stereotype of spirituality?
Religion may create anxiety
There are multiple pathways dealing with spirituality so you can’t generalize
Most converts found greater purpose
Helps people find self actualization
People have different spiritual orientations
What is the 1st spiritual orientation?
Psychological or social goals- reduced distress and belonging
What is the 2nd spiritual orientation?
Motivation towards religion as an end in and of itself
What is the intrinsic orientation?
Achieve closeness with divine or gain spiritual enlightenment
What is the second stereotype of spirituality?
It’s a form of denial
What is the argument against the second stereotype?
Spirituality is broad and has many systems that help them interpret and cope with trauma
Tragedy may be seen as a life lesson
Positive reframing is linked with positive health oucomes
What are the positive health outcomes that are linked with positive reframing?
self esteem
psychological adjustment
personal growth
What is the third stereotype of spirituality?
Spirituality is a passive, avoidant way of coping and defering problems to God
What is the argument against the third stereotype of spirituality?
People see God as a partner not sole controller
Some coping forms are related to active coping
Spirituality is related to increased personal control not decreased
People see God working through, alongside, or supporting them
What is the definition of positive spiritual coping?
Strategies that reflect a benevolent and supportive image of God and the spiritual community
What is included in positive spiritual coping?
spiritual forgiveness seeking spiritual support collaborative coping spiritual connection benevolent spiritual reappraisals