Mental health and spiritual well-being in humanitarian crises: the role of faith communities providing spiritual and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mental health and spiritual well-being in humanitarian crises: the role of faith communities providing spiritual and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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10.1186/s41018-022-00127-w
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2022
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在地球仪各地，人们对COVID-19大流行及其伴随的封锁的反应突显并继续强调心理健康和心理社会支持（MHPSS）在应对危机（包括在低收入和紧急情况下）中的重要性。这些活动还表明，在危机时期，信仰实践和信仰团体是许多受影响民众的核心需求和重要应对机制。世界宣明会是世界上最大的以儿童为重点的人道主义和发展组织，它在70个不同国家应对COVID-19的过程中收集了数据，本文探讨了信仰团体和信仰领袖应对社区需求的方式。虽然热衷于向在危机中遭受焦虑和恐惧的人提供心理社会支助，但这往往与精神支助结合在一起。从基于权利的精神健康方法的框架分析他们的工作，我们得出结论，他们确实有助于心理社会支持，通过他们的MHPSS，部分通过他们提供的精神护理。然而，精神福祉不应与社会心理福祉混为一谈。虽然信仰团体在MHPSS中发挥着重要作用，但他们的主要作用是提供精神关怀。
Across the globe, people’s reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns highlighted, and continued to stress, the relevance of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in responding to crises, including in low-income and emergency settings. They also demonstrated the importance of faith practices and communities of faith as core needs and important coping mechanisms for many affected people in times of crisis. Drawing on data collected by World Vision International, the world’s largest child-focused humanitarian and development organisation, in the course of its response to COVID-19 in 70 different countries, this article explores the ways in which faith groups and faith leaders responded to the perceived needs of their communities. While keen to offer psychosocial support to people suffering anxiety and fear in the context of the crisis, this has often been integrated with spiritual support. Analysing their work from the framework of a rights-based approach to mental health, we conclude that they did contribute to psychosocial support through their MHPSS, in part through their provision of spiritual care. However, spiritual well-being should not be conflated with psychosocial well-being. While faith groups play an important role in MHPSS, their primary role is to offer spiritual care.