This is not a course in religious indoctrination. This course, therefore, is not a forum for students with strong religious beliefs to witness or seek to evangelize other students. Nor is it a forum for skeptics to harass believers. Half of the course will reveal what this data is. Actual cases will be used throughout the course.
Spirituality includes, but is more comprehensive than religion.
This focus on learning what the data is and what techniques you can use to put what you learn into practice sets the tone for this course's lectures and group discussions. Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, Agnostic, Atheist, Shinto, Buddhist, New Age. The course assumes that we can take advantage of this diversity as a source of learning and insight. Students will understand that the large majority of their patients take spirituality and religion seriously with respect to how they think, live, grapple with illness, respond to therapy, and strive to be healthy. Students will understand that the spirituality of many patients has positive or negative impacts on healing and health.