Research
Interests:
Mental
health services delivery. Intervention research designed to promote
the continuity of mental health care through reciprocal collaboration
between clergy and mental health professionals.
The
goal of my research is to investigate the role of cultural beliefs on
the provision and acceptance of mental health care. The focus of my
research is on religion. Through investigating the role of clergy and
their religious congregations, I seek both to design intervention studies
directed at optimizing the provision of mental health care, and to create
programs to reduce the prevalence and severity of mental disorders.
Recent publications:
Religious practice and depression among geriatric homecare patients,
The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
Assessing problems with religious content: a comparison of rabbis and
psychologists, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Ethnic differences in the interpretation of mental illness: Perspectives
of caregivers, Research in Community and Mental Health: The Family
and Mental Illness, JAI Press.
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