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Spirituality As A Protective Factor

2. Overview of Workshop. Explore how faith community can use spiritual nurturing to prevent substance abuse and support recovery.Look at contributions faith organizations make to welfare of the community.Discuss the role congregations can play in positive youth development.. 3. Risk/Protective Factors.

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Spirituality As A Protective Factor

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    2. 2 Overview of Workshop Explore how faith community can use spiritual nurturing to prevent substance abuse and support recovery. Look at contributions faith organizations make to welfare of the community. Discuss the role congregations can play in positive youth development.

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    5. 5 Handout on parental monitoring of children’s activities Do you have example of community rewards for prosocial behavior?Handout on parental monitoring of children’s activities Do you have example of community rewards for prosocial behavior?

    6. 6 Do as I say, not as I do… Parents are actually the first to introduce children to alcohol or other drugs Can you think of examples of risk factors for older adults?Do as I say, not as I do… Parents are actually the first to introduce children to alcohol or other drugs Can you think of examples of risk factors for older adults?

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    8. 8 People with strong religious or spiritual beliefs are healthier, heal faster, and live longer than those without them. (National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Columbia University, So Help Me God, 2001) Religiousness is positively associated with prosocial values and behavior. Likewise, it is negatively related to suicide ideations and attempts, substance abuse, premature sexual involvement, and delinquency. (Search Institute)

    9. 9 Proscribe means to forbid or prohibit Sample alcohol policiesProscribe means to forbid or prohibit Sample alcohol policies

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    12. 12 19 million youth say religious beliefs are important, but only 8 million attend religious service 25x or more per year – what does that suggest?19 million youth say religious beliefs are important, but only 8 million attend religious service 25x or more per year – what does that suggest?

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    15. 15 Why Involve Faith Organizations in Substance Abuse Efforts? In some communities, the faith organization represents the hub of the neighborhood. There are between some 200,000 and 300,000 congregations in the United States. The faith community can be powerful and influential. Highly religious people are more likely to engage in helping behaviors. (Gallup Poll, 2008). 9 of 10 Americans identify with some type of religion. (Gallup Poll, 2007).

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    18. 18 Why Involve Faith Organizations in Substance Abuse Efforts? Faith communities have the vocabulary, the influence, and the knowledge to be a primary force in organizing communities to help the suffering addict, to prevent the future addict, and to support the recovering individual. Faith organizations can easily incorporate prevention messages into their existing youth or older adult ministries or programs. Faith organizations can provide youth and older adults with positive alternative activities.

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    21. 21 What is Spirituality? Different from religion Has cognitive, experiential, and behavioral aspects (search for meaning, purpose and truth in life; the beliefs and values by which a person lives; feelings of hope, love, connection, inner peace, comfort, and support) Has to do with an individual’s intuition of being part of the universe, of being connected to all of life

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    23. 23 What is Religion? Belief in deity Doctrine of salvation Code of conduct Use of sacred stories Religious rituals

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    28. 28 Helping People Learn to Nurture Their Spirits Help them discover their purpose in life by tapping into what they are passionate about Teach them to pray and meditate Help them live one day at a time Help them realize that some parts of life can be managed and others cannot. Serenity is found when people understand and accept what can be controlled and what cannot

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    30. 30 Knight in shining armor concept Success is measured by how much stuff you have. People with a lot of stuff aren’t necessarily happy.Knight in shining armor concept Success is measured by how much stuff you have. People with a lot of stuff aren’t necessarily happy.

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    35. 35 Role of Spirituality/Religion in Recovery Nursing journals report religious patients and their families better able to cope with illness and less likely to commit suicide Prayer and specific beliefs and cognitions about God and the meaning of life are particularly important in Black women’s efforts to cope with difficult life events

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