title: "What do you mean by spirituality? Please draw me a picture!" Complementary faith-based addiction treatment in Switzerland from the client's perspective.
abstract: This article reviews: (1) the relative importance of spirituality and religion in Switzerland and the United States, (2) the rationale for faith-based addiction intervention programs and the drawbacks of measurement approaches, and (3) results from a pilot study exploring the meaning of spirituality and religiosity from the consumer's perspective. Twenty-three patients entering the Swiss Südhang clinic in-patient alcohol user treatment program during the first five months in 2012 participated upon their admission in a video-taped drawing task, designed to provide their personal visualized definitions of the terms "spirituality" and "religiosity." Nine dimensions emerged pointing to a high complexity of the concepts.
authors.affiliation: Clinic Südhang, Kirchlindach and atf , Switzerland.
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Klingemann
authors.forename: Katrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schläfli
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Steiner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012114:Residential Treatment; D029181:Spirituality; D013557:Switzerland; D014481:United States