# Integrating religion and spirituality into psychiatry: scientific evidence or a change in the therapeutic relationship? - URL: https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/k1087 - Language: en - Last updated: not specified - Page title: Integrating religion and spirituality into psychiatry: scientific evidence or a change in the therapeutic relationship? | WCP 2026 Summary > Integrating religion and spirituality into mental health care is not merely a matter of scientific evidence, but a shift in values that requires professionals… This page was translated automatically from Turkish. [Read the original](https://alisanburak.com/wcp-2026-posterler/k1087) This page is an AI-assisted Turkish summary of the study presented at the 26th World Congress of Psychiatry. The study belongs to the presenting authors; please refer to the original source when citing it. Symposium PresentationMigration and Transcultural PsychiatryReview / Opinion # Integrating religion and spirituality into psychiatry: scientific evidence or a change in the therapeutic relationship? Tailoring issues of r/s in psychiatry: scientific evidence or shift in engagement Presenter: Arjan W. Braam Country: Netherlands Session: 3480 - TAILORING ISSUES OF RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY (R/S) IN PSYCHIATRY FROM A MULTI-CONTINENTAL, SCIENCE-BASED PERSPECTIVE Date: Fri, 25.09.2026, 09:15 - 09:30 Room: Hall K11 Integrating religion and spirituality into mental health care is not merely a matter of scientific evidence, but a shift in values that requires professionals to adopt a more egalitarian approach to their relationships with patients. The talk asks whether, given the growing importance of religion, spirituality, and existential issues for patients experiencing psychiatric episodes in contemporary mental health care, the biopsychosocial approach can simply be transformed into a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach. It notes that this transformation may be problematic; for example, professionals in secularized countries may prefer to avoid the term spiritual. It suggests that identifying specific values and virtues in mental health care may help clarify which spiritual or existential themes deserve attention. From another theoretical perspective, religion and spirituality can be incorporated into prevention approaches, with fundamental differences between primary prevention (supporting lifestyle strategies), secondary prevention (addressing spiritual and existential conflicts), and tertiary prevention (issues of substitution or recovery). Alongside scientific and practice-based evidence, a shift in values that allows for a more egalitarian professional relationship in mental health care also comes into focus. The interdisciplinary practice guideline on meaning and spirituality in Dutch mental health care is presented as an example that encourages professionals to attend carefully to religion, spirituality, and existential issues, at least as a means of improving the effectiveness of standard treatment options. How to cite this study APA 7: Braam, A. W., et al. (2026, September 25). Tailoring issues of r/s in psychiatry: scientific evidence or shift in engagement [Symposium presentation]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026), Stockholm, Sweden. Vancouver: Braam AW, et al. Tailoring issues of r/s in psychiatry: scientific evidence or shift in engagement [symposium presentation]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026); 2026 Sep 23-26; Stockholm, Sweden. Author names and title formatting were generated automatically from the congress system; please check them against the original poster before use. ## On the same topic - [Psikiyatrik hastalık ve şiddet: aile ruh sağlığı ve kültürlerarası yönlere odaklanma](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0096) - [İspanyolca konuşan popülasyonlar için bir dijital kliniğin kültürel ve dilsel uyarlaması](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0438) - [Göçmen ruh sağlığında eğitim boşluklarının incelenmesi: ülke genelinde bir ABD psikiyatri asistanı örnekleminin bakış açıları](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0519) - [Kültürler arasında aşk: göç ve kültürlerarası ilişkilerde çift terapisi](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0592) - [İran kültürünün ebeveynlik biçimi aracılığıyla çocukluktan yetişkinliğe gelişim üzerindeki etkisinin Y ve Z kuşaklarında incelenmesi](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0594) [All WCP 2026 summaries](https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler) --- Kaynak / Source: https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/k1087 İletişim / Contact: Bağdat Caddesi, Veli Güneysu Apt. No:453 K:4 D:9, Suadiye / Kadıköy, İstanbul · +90 532 642 95 25 · info@alisanburak.com · https://alisanburak.com/bagdat-caddesi-psikoterapi-iletisim