Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews
eISSN: 2395-6518, Vol 7, No 3, 2019, pp 176-180
https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2019.7327
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THE PATH OF PSYCHOSPIRITUAL INTERVENTION FOR SELF
HEALING: THE MULTI RELIGION PERSPECTIVES
Nisa Rachmah Nur Anganthi
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, Zahrotul Uyun
Fakultas Psikologi, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, Indonesia
Email:
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nisa.r.n.anganthi@ums.ac.id , zahrotul_uyun@ums.ac.id
Article History: Received on 10
th
February, Revised on 5th April, Published on 19
th
April 2019
Abstract
Purpose: The research of spiritual-religion diversity based on culture shows that psychological health gets through
worship, faith, and knowledge. The letter aims to find of self-healing method based on psycho-spiritual doctrine in the
Indonesian culture.
Methodology: The method of descriptive-qualitative is used to explore five informants who participate in every religion
including Islam, Christian, Catholic, Hindu, and Buddha. The selection of informants based on certain criteria that they
must have functional and structural of comprehensive spiritual-religious doctrine on the private higher education
institution based on religion in Yogyakarta and Center Java. Besides, the informants are lecturer, man, and at least thirty
years of age. Information gathering makes use of documentation, deep interview, and questionnaire method. Data
analysis uses content analysis that has abstracted from finding of verbatim themes.
Results: The result describes that each adherence of religion is convinced about all of the doctrine from their holy book.
They convince that the doctrine has a solution for the psychological problem of human being, but the procedure and
method are unique and specific, that is to become the identity of each religion. Healing level of the psychological
problem depends on their worship, faith, and knowledge.
Implications: The conclusion is that psycho-spiritual method based on religion can be able to increase the psychological
health of adherence through self-healing. The research implication shows that they need to sustainable examination for
the implementation of each method for adherence.
Keywords: Intervention, Psycho-spiritual, Self-healing, Multi-religion, Psychological Problem.
INTRODUCTION
Every individual has experienced pain. The condition of sick threatens the life of a person as a whole; physical, psychic,
social, and spiritual. (Mount, B. M., Boston, P. H., & Cohen, S. R. 2007;)Therefore health studies need to use a holistic
paradigm involving all dimensions of humanity, or often referred to as biopsychosocial-spiritual. Research(O’Donnell,
M. 2004)that proves that healing and healing practices have implications for the concept of holistic, health, and well-
being. This article highlights the experience of a person's spiritual life that is. The linkage between spirituality and
religion in the psychological intervention (psychotherapy) has always been controversial despite proven to have an
important role in mental. (Gonsiorek, J. C., Richards, P. S., Pargament, K. I., & McMinn, M. R. 2009; Ingavale, D. 2013)
Even it is reported in epidemiological studies there are effects of spirituality and religion in mental health. (Moritz, S.,
Quan, H., Rickhi, B., Liu, M., Angen, M., Vintila, R., Sawa, R., Soriano, J., and Toews, J. 2006). The spiritual dimension
is important in the counseling process. It is relevant and integrated dimension because it is the key in the culture and
socialization process. Significant healing of a physical treatment process not only should be done regularly but also
associated with psychological things, such as wholeness, narration, and spirituality. Healing is also associated with a
person's intention toward subjective experience as well as the meaning of the individual coming from events that cause
distress through his perception of the individual's wholeness. In other words, healing is one's experience of transcendence
toward suffering. (Egnew, T. R. 2005) Research (Mark, G., & Lyons, A. 2014; Jenaabadi & Khosropour, 2014; Ameen et
al., 2018) on the healing mechanism associated with the integration of mind, body, and spirit is relevant to health and
well-being. The results show that there is a difference between indigenous and non-indigenous counselors toward
spiritual healing. This is supported by research(Casarez, R. L. P., Engebretson, J. C., & Ostwald, S. K. 2010) who utilizes
qualitative studies to understand the orientation of African-Americans who practice spiritual in managing their diabetes.
The results are obtained that the spiritual function for healing includes (1) the spiritual practice as a method of self-
management, (2) the spiritual practice as a method of healing, and (3) the spiritual practice as a source in the process of
self-care. Nowadays, psychospiritual-oriented approach to understanding mental health emerges. (Pransky, J., & Kelley,
T. M. 2015)This approach consists of three principles (1) universal mind, (2) consciousness, and (3) thought introduced