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Religiousness and Spirituality: Life-Course Trajectories and Psychosocial Implications
This two-year project examines longitudinal life-course interview and questionnaire data spanning 60 years to investigate the life-course trajectories, antecedents and implications of religion for psychosocial functioning in late adulthood.
Terman Spirituality and Health Project
This effort is designed to use newly developed measures of spirituality and religiousness to investigate respondents’ spiritual development and how that development relates to health and well-being across the life span. The project provides for an exhaustive search of the Terman archive to develop seven cross-sectional measurements of respondents’ spirituality and religiousness.
Medical Curriculum Programs in Spirituality and Health
The Gwish Spirituality and Medicine Residency Training Curricular Awards
This two-year project examines longitudinal life-course interview and questionnaire data spanning 60 years to investigate the life-course trajectories, antecedents and implications of religion for psychosocial functioning in late adulthood.
Terman Spirituality and Health Project
Awards will be made to U.S. medical residency training programs for outstanding spirituality and medicine curriculum. Awards will also be made to primary care residency training programs and psychiatry residency training programs. The program aims to link effectively science and spirituality through interdisciplinary collaboration, providing new physicians with insight into the role spirituality plays in medicine and the well-being of their patients.
The Gwish Spirituality and Medicine U.S. Curricular Awards
Medical schools are awarded grants for outstanding spirituality and medicine curricula for medical students. The vision for the program is to inspire accredited medical schools in the United States to incorporate spirituality into their curriculum, thereby helping future physicians understand the value of patients’ spirituality as vital to patient care.
Research Fellowships
Duke University Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships in Religion/Spirituality and Healing
This program helps train scientists to conduct high-quality research in the area of religion/spirituality and health, to represent the next generation of research leaders in this field. Post-doctoral fellows at the M.D. or Ph.D. level who have shown academic promise receive the background, technical training and network of contacts in the field so that they can work independently on NIH-level research on religion/spirituality and health.
HealthCare Chaplaincy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Under this three-year program, two post-doctoral research fellows will work under the supervision of The HealthCare Chaplaincy's experienced pastoral researchers. This initiative will help ensure a successor generation of qualified and dedicated researchers in this specialty area of spirituality and health by associating them early in their professional careers with a distinguished team of pastoral care clinicians and scholars.
Spirituality and Religious Coping in Patients One Year After Cardiac Surgery
Researchers based at the University of Washington are studying how spirituality and religious coping affect health—physical and mental—of 300 patients one year after cardiac surgery, which is a major prevalent stressor. The study investigates both direct effects of spirituality and religious coping on adjustment and the hypothesized mediating effects of some psychological and physiological factors.
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