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A Pragmatic Approach to Teaching Psychiatry Residents the Assessment and Treatment of Religious Patients

Received October 28, 2005; revised March 10, 2006; accepted June 6, 2006. Dr. Blass is affiliated with Abarbanel Mental Health Center, Bat Yam, Israel, an affiliate of the Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, as well as with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Address correspondence to Dr. Blass, Abarbanel Mental Health Center, 15 Keren Kayemet Street, Bat Yam, Israel, 59436; dmblass{at}jhmi.edu (e-mail).

OBJECTIVE: The authors descripe a pragmatic and atheoretical frameword for teaching psychiatry residents how to assess and treat religious patients. RESULTS: The psychiatrist's goals in assessing the religious history are clarified. These goals differ between the assessment and treatment phases. During assessment, attention is paid to psychiatric phenomenology and careful history-taking, utilizing knowledgeable outside informants. A framework is presented for engaging religious patients, fostering therapeutic alliance, avoiding pitfalls, and facilitating treatment within the patient's religious context. CONCLUSIONS: Emphasizing knowledge of phenomenology and information gathering skills may be more effective than emphasizing broad knowledge of many religions, except for clinicians practicing within a particular religious community.

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