Caring For Your Health

This Spiritual Assessment Website is a resource for chaplains, hospitals, clinics, and churches interested in using religious faith and spirituality to maintain health, prevent disease, and treat illness. It seeks to further understand the relationship between religion, religious values and practrices, and healthcare outcomes. Its goal is to expand the dialogue between physicians, nurses, behavioral scientists, chaplains, pastoral couselors, and religious leaders to collaborate and gain greater understanding of physical, mental, and spiritual health, and their interdependence with one another. This website seeks to provide a spiritual assessment instrument that demonstrates the value spirituality and religious practices have for the health and well-being of the human communidty.