Spirituality as a dimension of quality of life and well-being has recently begun to be more valued within person-centred treatment approaches to mental health in the UK. The aim of this paper is to provide indicators of the extent to which accessing a spiritual support group may be useful within mental health recovery from the view point of those in receipt of it. The study design was a small-scale exploratory study utilising mixed methods. Quantitative methods were used to map the mental health, general well-being and social networks of the group. These were complimented by a semi-structured open-ended interview which allowed for Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of the life-history accounts of nine individuals with mental health problems who attended a ‘spirituality support group’. Data from unstructured open-ended interviews with five faith chaplains and a mental health day centre manager were also analysed using thematic analysis. The views of 15 participants are therefore recounted. Participants reported that the group offered them: an alternative to more formal religious organisations, and an opportunity to settle spiritual confusions/fears. The ‘group’ was also reported to generally help individual’s subjective feelings of mental wellness through social support. Whilst the merits of spiritual care are appealing, convincing services to include it within treatment may still be difficult.
PROBLElIThe Illinois Test of l'sycholinguistic Abilities: Experimental Edition (ITPA) was devised by JlcCarthy and Kirk@) to m e s s different aspects of Osgood's(6) psycholinguistic model of communication which has three psycholinguistic processes (decoding, association, encoding), two levels of organization (automaticsequential, representational), and two channels of communication (vision, audition). The nine ITPA subtests are explicitly intended to assess different combinations of psycholinguistic process, level of organization, and communication channel.Factor analytic studies of the ITPA have not supported JlcCarthy and Kirk's intended ability specificity of each subtest; the bulk of the variance between subtests has been explained by fewer than nine factors('s, g ) . Results of factor analytic studies of the ITPA have been flawed by the insertion of unities in the main diagonal of the correlation matrix.I n general, communality estimates rather than unities are appropriately utilized where the investigator's intent is to give the best approximation for a set of observed correlations with the minimum number of factors(ap. ll9).Harman@) reviews the evidence indicating that the squared multiple correlation of each test or variable with the remaining tests is the lower bound and therefore conservative estimate of the true communality.This study investigated the ability specificity of the ITPA subtests through the use of appropriate factor analytic methodology. The squared multiple correlation was used as the communality estimate. This study also compared white and Xegro performances on the ITPA, since Negroes were not included in the ITPA norm group.
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