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The current bio-psycho-social approach in South African psychiatry refers to Engel’s extended model of health care. It forms the basis of the existing collaboration between medicine, nursing, psychology, occupational therapy and social work. Psychiatry also has to bridge the multi-cultural, multi-religious and spiritual diverse reality of everyday practice. It has become important to establish how, within accepted boundaries, spirituality should be incorporated into the model for practice. Referring to methods described for nursing theory development, a defined core concept was used to construct a model. It may contribute to the discourse on spirituality in local psychiatry, health and mental health.
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Note In this paragraph and the Appendix, bold (for concepts) and underlined text are used to identify essential and related criteria for the definition of the elements of the single core concept, as derived from the dictionary definition and subject meaning.
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This research was supported by the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg by awarding two individual grants during 2009 and 2010 to the first author.
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Janse van Rensburg, B., Poggenpoel, M., Myburgh, C.P.H. et al. A Model for the Role of Defined Spirituality in South African Specialist Psychiatric Practice and Training. J Relig Health 53, 393–412 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-012-9644-3
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