title: Crisis as opportunity for spiritual growth.
abstract: Life-history data from two hundred crisis families and two hundred non-crisis families are examined to specify the influence of crisis conditions on spiritual growth. Members of crisis families making spiritual values their basis for life-orientation appear to live more productively and experience more life-satisfaction than members of crisis families or non-crisis families making no conscious effort to examine values or life-orientation.These findings invite further substantiation of crisis as opportunity for spiritual growth. A clinical implication is that research on optimal functioning, recovery, and spiritual growth is perhaps more needed at present than continued research on pathology and dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C, USA.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Hall