Religious/Spiritual Abuse, Meaning-Making, and Posttraumatic Growth

Religions Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI:10.3390/rel15070824
Sarah Perry
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While religion and spirituality (R/S) have been broadly studied for their positive mental health impacts, instances of abuse within religious or spiritual contexts remain under-researched. This scoping review aims to elucidate how individuals experiencing such abuse navigate their trauma, find meaning, and foster posttraumatic growth (PTG). The research was conducted using a scoping review methodology as a guide, and 10 articles were selected based on predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Synthesizing these articles revealed the following three central themes: recognizing abuse, relaying one’s story, and redefining spirituality. Survivors often face disbelief and stigma, hindering their ability to process their experiences. However, narrative sharing enables many to reclaim agency and healing through validation and the integration of the narrative into one’s life story. Additionally, survivors often transform spirituality, shifting from rigid frameworks to more nuanced and flexible understandings of the Divine and self. These findings underscore the importance of trauma-informed, spiritually sensitive clinical approaches that validate survivors’ experiences, facilitate narrative sharing, and support spiritual redefining. Future research must address knowledge gaps, including the development of improved assessment tools, exploration of effective treatment strategies, and the unifying of terms to better support survivors’ healing journeys and promote meaning-making and PTG in the aftermath of R/S abuse.
宗教/精神虐待、意义建构和创伤后成长
虽然宗教和灵性(R/S)对心理健康的积极影响已得到广泛研究,但在宗教或灵性背景下发生的虐待事件仍未得到充分研究。本范围界定综述旨在阐明遭受此类虐待的个人如何引导其创伤、寻找意义并促进创伤后成长(PTG)。研究以范围界定综述方法为指导,根据预先确定的纳入和排除标准,筛选出 10 篇文章。对这些文章进行综合后发现了以下三个中心主题:认识虐待、讲述自己的故事和重新定义灵性。幸存者常常面临不相信和污名化,这阻碍了他们处理自身经历的能力。然而,分享自己的经历可以让许多人重新获得自主权,并通过验证和将经历融入自己的人生故事来获得治愈。此外,幸存者通常会转变精神信仰,从僵化的框架转变为对神和自我更细致、更灵活的理解。这些发现强调了以创伤为基础、对灵性敏感的临床方法的重要性,这些方法可以验证幸存者的经历、促进叙事分享并支持灵性重新定义。未来的研究必须填补知识空白,包括开发更好的评估工具、探索有效的治疗策略以及统一术语,以更好地支持幸存者的愈合之旅,促进R/S虐待后的意义建构和PTG。
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