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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- Evidence-based treatments for PTSD -- Healing from war in religious scriptures -- Religion and coping with severe trauma -- Prevention of PTSD and impact of trauma on religion -- Recovery from PTSD and impact on posttraumatic growth -- Moral injury and PTSD -- Identifying moral injury -- Religious/spiritual treatments for PTSD and moral injury -- Spiritually-integrated cognitive processing therapy for moral injury and PTSD -- How religion affects PTSD -- Recommendations, summary and conclusions.

Life before the Navy -- Back in the Navy -- Sasebo, Japan -- San Diego -- Oakland -- Portsmouth -- Return to San Diego -- Bethesda -- Naval Medical Command, Washington -- Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington -- The Pentagon -- Deputy Surgeon General -- Surgeon General -- Life after the Navy -- Appendix: Acronyms.

Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Religion vs. Spirituality -- Abstract -- Constructs for research -- Religion -- Spirituality -- Summary of Definitions for Research Purposes -- Defining religion -- Defining spirituality -- Summary and conclusions -- Chapter 2: Measurement of Religiosity -- Abstract -- Measurement and quantification -- Measures of religiosity by dimension -- Multidimensional scales -- Most commonly used measures -- Choosing a measure -- Recommended measures of "spirituality" -- Statistical considerations -- Summary and conclusions -- Chapter 3: Religion and Coping -- Abstract -- Definition -- How does religion help? -- Religion as a barrier to coping -- Research on Religious Coping -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Negative Emotions and Behaviors -- Abstract -- Depression -- Suicide -- Anxiety -- Substance abuse -- Antisocial behaviors -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Chronic Mental and Neurocognitive Disorders -- Abstract -- Schizophrenia -- Bipolar disorder -- Major neurocognitive disorder (dementia) -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Positive Emotions -- Abstract -- Psychological well-being -- Hope -- Optimism -- Purpose and meaning in life -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 7: Mechanisms -- Abstract -- Genetic factors -- Biological factors -- Psychological factors -- Social factors -- Environmental factors -- Individual factors -- Interactions between categories -- Religion as a determinant of mental health -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 8: Religious Struggles and Doubt -- Abstract -- Religious Struggles -- Religious doubt -- Struggle in pantheistic religions -- Related issues -- Religious struggles and mental health -- Recent research on religious struggle/doubt

Terms of the debate -- Medicine in the twenty-first century -- From mind to body -- Religion and health -- Mental health -- The immune and endocrine systems -- The cardiovascular system -- Diseases related to stress and behavior -- Longevity -- Physical disability -- Clinical applications -- Final thoughts

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