The Center for Spirituality and Healthcare serves as a mechanism for promoting spiritually based research, education, and treatment in the field of mental health at NYU.

Physicians are coming to realize that spiritual needs—and not just biomedical treatments—are important to people’s ability to cope with illness. Some examples of the areas that go beyond everyday practice are complementary and alternative medicine, Twelve-Step programs, and meditation. And this is true not only for certain physical problems, but also for helping people understand what good health, psychological well-being, and illness mean to them.

In order to address what people need for spiritual and emotional support, our Center has undertaken a number of projects which meet the highest standards of medical education, research, and treatment. These include studies on training and practice for physicians and nurses, on adolescent needs, on substance abuse, and on treating mental illness.

How Spiritual are you: and how do we define spirituality?

Faculty members at New York University have developed a set of six simple statements to measure a person’s level of spirituality.  So you can get your spirituality “score” and then compare it to some groups of people who scored themselves as well.  Then we will describe how we define spirituality and provide you with some information on how this might be useful to you.

This book, describing the field of spirituality in medicine, was published by Oxford University Press

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Training Manual for Spirituality Discussion Groups for Mental Health with Focus on Cultural Competency. Please click here