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Mental Health and Christianity for Young Adults - Coggle Diagram
Mental Health and Christianity for Young Adults
Interpersonal (family/team)
Different models for pastoral counseling
Stigma
Lack of training within churches to recognize and assist with mental illness related crises
Non heterosexual couples in the church
Covid-19 Spiritual First Aid
Language that pastors and leaders within the church use when discussing mental health
Benefit for mental health is a sense of community
Church response to natural disasters and mental health relief
Social influence and social learning theories
focus groups
preventative care
Churches following up with members regarding mental health care
Individual (psychological)
The supernatural
Feeling as though mental health issues are caused by sinning
Mental illness as aign of weakness
Homosexuality
Sex
Shame and guilt associated with drug and alcohol use
Growing up with religion may lessen future mental health issues
Misunderstanding
Institutional (government/law)
Lack of counselors within the church
Ideas surrounding mental health are not often offered in sermons
Misinterpretation
Government can't make laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion
institutional power of psychiatry was ONCE held by the church
Democratic vs republican views on laws the church should or should not support-- abortion example. This is correlated to mental health
Who governs? Church or state
conversion therapy
how does this get past the law? It is always "behind the scenes"
Alana Faith Chen article
Campus wide ministry leaders promoting mental health
Churches push back on anti discriminatory laws as they might hinder their right to freedom of speech, etc., as an institution
Affordability of services
Executive teams at churches (especially non-denominational) are very aware and supportive of mental health. They want to learn how to help.
PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
Non- profits working to educate churches on mental health!!
Why have I not heard of this? Is this a commonly known thing?
Are churches around me using these resources?
Individuals affected
Priests/pastors
Priests need to take care of their own mental health
They were originally told you just need to pray over people struggling with mental health
They are learning more about MH and how to take care of other people
Psychological testing before becoming a priest
"Problem Priests" not a good way to phrase....
families
college-aged students
Internet use
People of color
racial disparities already with mental health care
May be more likely to seek help from the pastor at their church than a local mental health care provider
Teenagers
People recovering from drug abuse
young people who did not go to college
Sexual addiction and religious counseling
Men vs Women
The church's history with mental health
Rocky History
Discerning sin from mental illness
never speaking about mental health
not recognizing mental health as an illness
stigma
mental health looked at as demonic infestation
In Africa, pastors scope of mental illness had to do primarily with psychotic disorders
60% of people with psychotic disorders believe they are sent from god or some sort of religious prophesy
How do we distinguish between the experience of psychiatric patients and those of religious figures in history?
Ingestion of hallucinogenic substances
Jesus hallucinated due to starvation
Almost all of the people written about in the bible experienced mental health issues (often extreme)
No changes seen for a very long period of time regarding how the church viewed mental health