ArticleJournal of international humanitarian action2022
Mental health and spiritual well-being in humanitarian crises: the role of faith communities providing spiritual and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Unseen repercussions of war: psychological effects on Jordanians during the Israeli Palestinian war.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- The role of positive spirituality in preventing child maltreatment and promoting resilience: a perspective on policy and practice.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Commentary: Rethinking pathways to well-being: the function of faith practice in distress alleviation among displaced Muslim women affected by war.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Pre- and Post-Pandemic Religiosity and Mental Health Outcomes: A Prospective Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Posttraumatic Growth Among Survivors of Natural Disaster in Indonesia: A Qualitative Study.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
Across the globe, people's reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns highlighted, and continued to stress, the relevance of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in responding to crises, including in low-income and emergency settings. They also demonstrated the importance of faith practices and communities of faith as core needs and important coping mechanisms for many affected people in times of crisis. Drawing on data collected by World Vision International, the world's largest child-focused humanitarian and development organisation, in the course of its response to COVID-19 in 70 different countries, this article explores the ways in which faith groups and faith leaders responded to the perceived needs of their communities. While keen to offer psychosocial support to people suffering anxiety and fear in the context of the crisis, this has often been integrated with spiritual support. Analysing their work from the framework of a rights-based approach to mental health, we conclude that they did contribute to psychosocial support through their MHPSS, in part through their provision of spiritual care. However, spiritual well-being should not be conflated with psychosocial well-being. While faith groups play an important role in MHPSS, their primary role is to offer spiritual care.
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