Browsing by Author "Rosmarin, David"
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Attitudes toward spirituality/religion among members of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Rosmarin, David Hillel; Green, Dovid; Pirutinsky, Steven; McKay, Dean (American Psychological Association (APA), 2013)Attitudes toward spirituality and religion (S/R) have not been systematically surveyed among practitioners of cognitive– behavior therapy. We therefore administered a brief survey about S/R ton n = 262 members of the ... -
Beyond descriptive research: advancing the study of spirituality and health
Rosmarin, David Hillel; Wachholtz, Amy; Ai, Amy (Springer Science + Business Media, 2011)The past three decades have witnessed a surge in research on spirituality and health. This growing body of literature has linked many aspects of spirituality as well as religion to both positive and negative indices of ... -
Brief Trust/Mistrust in God Scale: psychometric properties of the Farsi version in Muslims
Hafizi, Sina; Rosmarin, David Hillel; G. Koenig, Harold (Informa UK Limited, 2013)In Iran, a Middle Eastern Islamic country, far too little attention has been paid to the validation and cultural adaptation of measures of religion/spirituality. This has limited the potential for research in this area. ... -
Community attitudes towards culture-influenced mental illness: scrupulosity vs. nonreligious OCD among orthodox jews
Pirutinsky, Steven; Rosmarin, David Hillel; Pargament, Kenneth I. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)Culture may particularly influence community attitudes towards mental illness, when the illness itself is shaped by a cultural context. To explore the influence of culture-specific, religious symptoms on Orthodox Jewish ... -
Dental utilization disparities in a Jewish context: reasons and potential solutions
Lazarus, Z; Pirutinsky, S; Korbman, M; Rosmarin, David Hillel (2015)Demographic discrepancies in dental healthcare utilization and access to care have historically been studied and attributed to such factors as socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity. Such potential discrepancies and ... -
Depression Stigma and Treatment Preferences Among Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Jews
Baruch, David E.; Kanter, Jonathan W.; Pirutinsky, Steven; Murphy, Joseph; Rosmarin, David Hillel (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2014)Anecdotal reports of increased stigma toward mental illness among Orthodox Jews seems to conflict with an existing literature describing less stigmatization toward depression among Jewish individuals. This online survey ... -
Do Medical Models of Mental Illness Relate to Increased or Decreased Stigmatization of Mental Illness Among Orthodox Jews?
Pirutinsky, Steven; Rosen, Daniel; Shapiro Safran, Rachel; Rosmarin, David Hillel (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2010)Research suggests that attributing mental illness to moral causes and perceiving it as dangerous relates to greater stigma, whereas belief in biomedical factors is associated with less. Within the family-centric Orthodox ... -
Do Spiritual Struggles Predict Poorer Physical/Mental Health Among Jews?
Rosmarin, David Hillel; Pargament, Kenneth I.; Flannelly, Kevin J. (Informa UK Limited, 2009)Although spirituality and religion are generally associated with higher levels of physical and mental well-being, spiritual struggles, which involve tension in regard to spiritual issues, have been identified as a risk ... -
Does negative religious coping accompany, precede, or follow depression among Orthodox Jews?
Pirutinsky, Steven; Rosmarin, David Hillel; Pargament, Kenneth I.; Midlarsky, Elizabeth (Elsevier BV, 2011)Background: Cross sectional research suggests that negative religious coping (e.g., anger at God and religious disengagement) strongly correlates with depression and anxiety. However, causality is difficult to establish ... -
Does social support mediate the moderating effect of intrinsic religiosity on the relationship between physical health and depressive symptoms among Jews?
Pirutinsky, Steven; Rosmarin, David Hillel; Holt, Cheryl L.; Feldman, Robert H.; Caplan, Lee S.; Midlarsky, Elizabeth; Pargament, Kenneth I. (Springer Nature, 2011)Previous research in the general population suggests that intrinsic religiosity moderates (mitigates) the effect of poor physical health on depression. However, few studies have focused specifically on the Jewish community. ... -
Does Symptom Type Moderate the Relationship Between Insight and Outcome in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis? A Preliminary Investigation
Kuller, Andrew M; Libben, Maya R.; Rosmarin, David Hillel; Bjorgvinsson, Throstur (Informa UK Limited, 2012)Insight has emerged as a potential predictor variable in cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp). However, previous research has produced mixed results. The present study aimed to clarify whether symptom type is ... -
Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Severe Mood Disorders in an Acute Psychiatric Naturalistic Setting: A Benchmarking Study
Bjorgvinsson, Throstur; Kertz, Sarah J.; Bigda-Peyton, Joseph S.; Rosmarin, David Hillel; Aderka, Idan M.; Neuhaus, Edmund Conrad (Informa UK Limited, 2014)The current study examined the effectiveness of brief cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for severe mood disorders in an acute naturalistic setting. The sample included 951 individuals with either major depressive disorder ... -
Family size and psychological functioning in the Orthodox Jewish community
Pirutinsky, Steven; Schechter, Issac; Kor, Ariel; Rosmarin, David Hillel (Informa UK Limited, 2015)Caring for children is a known psychosocial stressor; however, its effects on psychological functioning may have substantial cross-cultural variance. We explored relationships between family size and a variety of ... -
Grateful to God or just plain grateful? A comparison of religious and general gratitude
Rosmarin, David Hillel; Pirutinsky, Steven; Cohen, Adam B.; Galler, Yardana; Krumrei, Elizabeth J. (Informa UK Limited, 2011)Psychological science has consistently highlighted links between gratitude and religion, however mediating pathways by which religion relates to gratitude remain ambiguous. Further, it is unclear whether religious gratitude ... -
Incorporating spiritual beliefs into a cognitive model of worry
Rosmarin, David Hillel; Pirutinsky, Steven; Auerbach, Randy Patrick; Bjorgvinsson, Throstur; Bigda-Peyton, Joseph; Andersson, Gerhard; Pargament, Kenneth I.; Krumrei, Elizabeth J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)Cognitive theory and research have traditionally highlighted the relevance of the core beliefs about oneself, the world, and the future to human emotions. For some individuals, however, core beliefs may also explicitly ... -
Integrating Spirituality Into a Behavioral Model of Depression
Agishtein, Peryl; Pirutinsky, Steven; Kor, Ariel; Baruch, David; Kanter, Jonathan; Rosmarin, David Hillel (2013)A protective association between spirituality and depression is well-established, but the processes driving this association, as well as its clinical implications, remain unclear. We postulate that one mechanism driving ... -
Integrating Spirituality Into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in an Acute Psychiatric Setting: A Pilot Study
Rosmarin, David Hillel; Auerbach, Randy Patrick; Bigda-Peyton, Joseph S.; Bjorgvinsson, Throstur; Levendusky, Philip George (Springer Publishing Company, 2011)Results from national studies in the United States suggest that spiritually integrated psycho- therapy may be desired by and beneficial for a specific subset of patients. However, protocols to facilitate these aims within ... -
Interest in spiritually integrated psychotherapy among acute psychiatric patients.
Rosmarin, David Hillel; Forester, Brent Peter; Shassian, Daniel M.; Webb, Christian A; Bjorgvinsson, Throstur (American Psychological Association (APA), 2015)Objective: Spiritually integrated psychotherapy (SIP) is increasingly common, though systematic assessment of interest in such treatments, and predictors of such interest, has not yet been conducted among acute psychiatric ... -
Maintaining a grateful disposition in the face of distress: The role of religious coping.
Rosmarin, David Hillel; Pirutinsky, Steven; Greer, Devora; Korbman, Miriam (American Psychological Association (APA), 2016)Despite a surge in psychological research on gratitude over the past several years, a number of important questions remain unanswered about this highly valued trait. It is largely unknown, for example, how gratitude is ... -
A randomized controlled evaluation of a spiritually integrated treatment for subclinical anxiety in the Jewish community, delivered via the Internet
Rosmarin, David Hillel; Pargament, Kenneth I.; Pirutinsky, Steven; Mahoney, Annette (Elsevier BV, 2010)OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the efficacy of a spiritually integrated treatment (SIT) for subclinical anxiety in the Jewish community. METHOD: One hundred and twenty-five self-reported religious Jewish individuals with ...