Date

5-22-2024

Department

School of Behavioral Sciences

Degree

Doctor of Education in Community Care and Counseling (EdD)

Chair

Frederick Volk

Keywords

spiritual disciplines, prayer, bible, scripture reading, spiritual coping, resilience, resilience and spirituality, adjustment disorder, anxiety, depression, religion and spirituality, cognitive behavior therapy, faith based cognitive behavioral therapy, internet interventions, prayer coping, scripture coping, God attachment, Christian spiritual coping, adjustment disorder with anxious mood, adjustment disorder with depressed mood, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depression, resilience and religion

Disciplines

Christianity | Counseling

Abstract

The outcome of anxiety and depression’s symptomology is an ever-rising global economy cost of 1 trillion U.S. dollars, due to medical costs and loss of productivity, leading researchers and clinicians to search for effective cost saving solutions (Chodavadia et al., 2023). Religion/Spirituality (RS) based cognitive therapy treatments are recognized in alleviating maladaptive behaviors and cognitive distortions, offering comfort to the afflicted, hope and belief that God is available for the seeker (Ramos et al., 2018). Therefore, the researcher conducted an internet-based, self-paced intervention of a mixed methods study of a 40-Day Biblical Worldview Educational Treatment Program of a convenience sample of women (n= 5) ages 20-45 with adjustment disorder with anxious mood or depressed mood or mixed anxiety/depression. The current investigation addressed whether Christian spiritual disciplines (reading Scripture and prayer) build resilience in the cognitive dimension and whether there is a correlation between Christian spiritual disciplines (reading Scripture and prayer) and Christian spiritual coping (reading Scripture and prayer), and whether Christian spiritual coping (reading Scripture and prayer) decrease the common symptomology of anxiety and depression. The majority participants (80%) experienced a decrease in negative mood symptomology post 40-Day Biblical Worldview Educational Treatment Program, with qualitative data revealing increased resilience and spiritual coping. Nevertheless, the paired samples t test indicated the small sample size of the current investigation to not be statistically significant with the pre- and post-depression scores (M = 3, t = 0.900, and p = 0.209), the pre and post anxiety scores (M = 2.6, t = 0.905, p = 0.208), the pre and post stress scores (M = 5.2, t = 0.927, p = .203) all showing a decrease in the Mean, however, not enough to be statistically significant.

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