Conducting a randomized controlled trial in spiritually integrated mental health care /

There are comparatively few randomized controlled trials of spiritually integrated psychotherapy. As a result, many methods questions, such as selecting outcome measures, control conditions, and types of therapists, required independent and innovative consideration. This case report shares our effor...

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Main Authors: Harris, J. Irene (Author), Usset, Timothy J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020.
Series:SAGE Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:There are comparatively few randomized controlled trials of spiritually integrated psychotherapy. As a result, many methods questions, such as selecting outcome measures, control conditions, and types of therapists, required independent and innovative consideration. This case report shares our efforts to empirically test a manualized, spiritually integrated group therapy protocol targeting post-traumatic stress disorder and moral injury/spiritual distress in military service members and veterans. We confronted multiple methodological challenges, including (a) identifying, hiring, training, and supervising chaplains in a research setting; (b) providing an ethically, therapeutically, and methodologically sound control condition; and (c) finding measures for moral injury as an outcome when ideal measures had not yet been developed.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781529725186
1529725186