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  • Title: A pragmatic approach to teaching psychiatry residents the assessment and treatment of religious patients.
    Author: Blass DM.
    Journal: Acad Psychiatry; 2007; 31(1):25-31. PubMed ID: 17242049.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: The authors describe 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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