Health Help-Seeking Behaviour in Spiritual Healing Practice: Records from the Panacea Society’s Healing Department, 1924–1997

Why people seek help is a question shared by both health psychologists and scholars of spiritual healing. This overlap, however, has gone unexplored. This article shows convergence between health help-seeking behaviours in spiritual healing and secular professional health services. It does so by dra...

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Authors: Williams, Ryan J. (Author) ; Watts, Fraser N. 1946- (Author) ; Lockhart, Alastair (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. 2022
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2022, Volume: 61, Issue: 3, Pages: 2417-2432
Further subjects:B Health Belief Model
B Help-seeking
B Ritual
B Spiritual / faith healing
B religious participation
B gender differences
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