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    A STUDY OF THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF FAITH AND MENTORS IN MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
    (Department of Psychology, University of Peshawar, 1986-05) SYEDA Farhana Jahangir; Dr.S. Zulfiqar Gilani
    The present research was designed to study the therepeutic effects of faith and religious mentors in mental health problems. For this purpose number of different religious mentors were approached. They helped in the selection and contact with the subjects who once suffered from psychological problems and received faith therapy. It was also ascertained that these subjects did not receive any other kind of therepeutic treatment. The information regarding the nature of psychological disturbance, severity of the problem and duration of faith therapy was collected and cross checked by interviewing the subjects and their families. On the basis of this information every, subject's case history was prepared. The symptoms shown at the time of distrubance were taken from their case histories and diagnosed with the help of DSM-III. It was noticed that the majority of the subjects included in the present study were severly disturbed and their psychopathology bordered on the psychotic or was clearly psychotic. At the time of this research five different objective and standardzed tests were adminstered to every subject individually, to measure psychological health. According to these test results as well as the verbal reports of the subjects, they are all functioning normally at present. The results indicate that people Living in this culture are likely to benifit from faith therapy. An attempt is made to explain these results within the context of our socio-religious culture.