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Published on: June 21, 2010
Spirituality review on mental health and psychiatric nursing
Gabriel Lavorato Neto1, Larissa Rodrigues1, Diego Alexandre Rozendo da Silva2
1Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Enfermagem. Campinas-SP, Brasil.
Objective:
Gather the concepts, theories and interventions about spirituality, its nature and functions in mental health and psychiatric nursing.
Method:
A literature review proceeded on February 2016. It has integrated 214 studies published until December 2015 by crossing Spirituality and Psychiatric Nursing mesh terms in databases.
Results:
Conceptualization about spirituality and religion, their complexity in nursing research, education, and clinical approach; their functions to human being correlated to the purpose of life, transcendental connections, and support in mental health; the professional boundaries in address to spirituality in mental health scenery, and a descriptive literature recommendations and a instruments catalog.
Conclusions:
Spirituality in nursing mental health and psychiatry remains a theoretical problem, and has a clinical mischaracterized approach; recently publications try to promote a human and holistic trend in the practice, as a challenge to lead the current circumstances to valid nursing bases.
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