Spiritual Health and the Social Work

Mohammadreza Pourakbarianniaz¹ Davoud Pourakbarian Niaz²

1) PhD in Social Work, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
2) Civil engineering expert, Tabriz University, Iran

IOI Code : XEAC-KDHHH
Publication : 1st International Conference and 2nd National Conference on Psychology and Religion(cpruma.ir)
Abstract :
    Measuring human health and studying its threatening factors from different perspectives have always been of interest to researchers. People s health can be the subject of research in different dimensions, but in the conducted studies, sometimes only one dimension of health is considered individually, and sometimes different dimensions of health are considered at the same time. In addition to the fact that health threatening factors can harm more than one of these factors, the researches indicate the effects of health dimensions on each other. The current research has been conducted with the aim of introducing and directing the attention of social workers to the issue of spiritual health during counseling and specialized interventions of social workers. This research is qualitative and by conducting semi-structured interviews, looking for the role of spirituality in the treatment of diseases (four heart patients and five cancer patients) and improving their social health, by using the experiences of sick people and their family members, to analyze the relationships between The elements of health and spirituality have been discussed. The results of the research showed that sick people were more hopeful and determined to fight the disease in proportion to their spiritual health and did not despair of achieving physical health and had better social relationships.

Keywords : spiritual health social work health social health