Spirituality, Theology and Health Seminars

Current and Upcoming Seminars (via Zoom) (12:00-1:00 EST)

See PDF of all 2024-2025 Research Seminars

Duke University encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about these seminars, please contact Dr. Koenig at 919-949-3854 (cell phone) in advance of your participation.

October 1, 2024: Spiritual Competency Training in Mental Health (PDF of PowerPoint)

October 1, 2024: Spiritual Competency Training in Mental Health (video of webinar)

August 27, 2024: Trauma, Culture, Resiliency, & Spirituality (PDF of PowerPoint)

August 27, 2024: Trauma, Culture, Resiliency, & Spirituality (video of webinar)

July 30, 2024: The Critical Need for The Sacred in Clinical Care (video of webinar)

June 25, 2024: The NIH Religion, Spirituality, and Health Scientific Interest Group (RSH-SIG):  Overview and Aspirations (PDF of PowerPoint)

June 25,  2024: The NIH Religion, Spirituality, and Health Scientific Interest Group (RSH-SIG):  Overview and Aspirations (video of webinar)

May 28, 2024: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Moral Injury (PDF of PowerPoint)

May 28, 2024: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Moral Injury (video of webinar)

April 16, 2024: Tackling the Dementia Burden: Spirituality and Cognitive Health (PDF of PowerPoint)

April 16, 2024: Tackling the Dementia Burden: Spirituality and Cognitive Health (video of webinar)

March 26, 2024: The Spirit & Science of Humility (PDF of PowerPoint)

March 26, 2024: The Spirit & Science of Humility (video of webinar)

February 27, 2024: Forgiveness as a Vital Sign: An evolutionary and theological perspective  (PDF of PowerPoint)

February 27, 2024: Forgiveness as a Vital Sign: An evolutionary and theological perspective  (video of webinar)

January 30, 2024: Spiritual Struggles in Film, Part 3: The Divine & Ultimate Meaning Struggles in Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Seventh Seal’ (PDF of PowerPoint)

January 30, 2024: Spiritual Struggles in Film, Part 3: The Divine & Ultimate Meaning Struggles in Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Seventh Seal’ (video of webinar)

December 19, 2023: The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice (PDF of PowerPoint)

December 19, 2023: The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice (video of webinar)

November 28, 2023: Spiritual Struggles in Film, Part 2: The Interpersonal, Demonic, and Moral Struggles in Carl Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (PDF of PowerPoint)

November 28, 2023: Spiritual Struggles in Film, Part 2: The Interpersonal, Demonic, and Moral Struggles in Carl Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (video of webinar)

October 31, 2023: Spiritual Struggles in Film, Part 1: The Struggles with Ultimate Meaning in Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ikiru’ (PDF of PowerPoint)

October 31, 2023: Spiritual Struggles in Film, Part 1: The Struggles with Ultimate Meaning in Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ikiru’ (video of webinar)

September 26, 2023: The Road to Jerusalem: A Psychiatrist’s Journey to a Holistic Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Approach to Mental Health Recovery  (PDF of PowerPoint)

September 26, 2023: The Road to Jerusalem: A Psychiatrist’s Journey to a Holistic Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Approach to Mental Health Recovery (video of webinar)

August 29, 2023: Two Longitudinal Studies on Spirituality and Survival  (PDF of PowerPoint)

August 29, 2023: Two Longitudinal Studies on Spirituality and Survival  (video of webinar by Dr. Gail Ironson from the University of Miami)

July 25, 2023: The Moral Injury Experience Wheel (PDF of PowerPoint)

July 25, 2023: The Moral Injury Experience Wheel (video of webinar)

June 27, 2023: Where Do Religion and Spirituality Appear in the DSM-5-TR? (PDF of PowerPoint)

June 27, 2023: Where Do Religion and Spirituality Appear in the DSM-5-TR? (video of webinar)

May 30, 2023: Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health (PDF of PowerPoint)

May 30, 2023: Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health (video of webinar)

Apr 11, 2023:  Toward a Translational Epidemiology of Religion: Challenges and Applications (PDF of PowerPoint)

Apr 11, 2023:  Toward a Translational Epidemiology of Religion: Challenges and Applications (video of webinar)

Mar 28, 2023: Beyond Well-Being: Lessons from Sartre, Aristotle, and the Blue Zones (PDF of PowerPoint)

Mar 28, 2023: Beyond Well-Being: Lessons from Sartre, Aristotle, and the Blue Zones (video of webinar)

Feb 28, 2023: Spiritual Psychotherapy for Inpatient, Residential & Intensive Treatment (SPIRIT) (PDF of PowerPoint)

Feb 28, 2023: Spiritual Psychotherapy for Inpatient, Residential & Intensive Treatment (SPIRIT) (video of webinar)

Jan 31, 2023: Spirituality, Recovery, and Resilience: A Holistic Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Approach to Mental Health Treatment (PDF of PowerPoint)

Jan 31, 2023: Spirituality, Recovery, and Resilience: A Holistic Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Approach to Mental Health Treatment (video of webinar)

Dec 20, 2022: Spiritual and Religious Competencies for Mental Health Care: Moving from Research to Routine Practice (PDF of PowerPoint)

Dec 20, 2022: Spiritual and Religious Competencies for Mental Health Care: Moving from Research to Routine Practice (video of webinar)

Nov 29, 2022: Spiritually-Integrated Cognitive Processing Therapy (SICPT): Treatment Approach for Moral Injury (PDF of PowerPoint)

Nov 29, 2022: Spiritually-Integrated Cognitive Processing Therapy (SICPT): Treatment Approach for Moral Injury (video of webinar)

Oct 25, 2022: Heart, Soul, and Spirit – The Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Cardiovascular Disease (PDF of PowerPoint)

Oct 25, 2022: Heart, Soul, and Spirit – The Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Cardiovascular Disease (video of webinar)

Sept 27, 2022: Christianity and Psychiatry (PDF of PowerPoint)

Sept 27, 2022: Christianity and Psychiatry (video of webinar)

Aug 23, 2022: Spiritual Readiness in the Military (PDF of PowerPoint)

Aug 23, 2022: Spiritual Readiness in the Military (video of webinar)

July 26, 2022: Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy:  From Research to Practice (PDF of PowerPoint)

July 26, 2022: Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy:  From Research to Practice (video of webinar)

July 5, 2022: Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease (PDF of PowerPoint)

July 5, 2022: Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease (video of webinar)

May 10, 2022: A Theoretical Framework on the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Moral Injury (PDF of PowerPoint)

May 10, 2022: A Theoretical Framework on the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Moral Injury (video of webinar)

April 19, 2022: Spirituality and Religion in Clinical Practice. The role of belief systems explored (video of webinar)

April 19, 2022: Spirituality and Religion in Clinical Practice. The role of belief systems explored (PDF of PowerPoint)

April 12, 2022: Secularism, the Church, and the Way Forward (video of webinar)

March 29, 2022: C. G. Jung and The Religious Instinct (PDF of PowerPoint)

March 29, 2022: C. G. Jung and The Religious Instinct  (video of webinar)

March 28, 2022: 20th Annual David B. Larson Memorial Lecture by Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D. (PDF of PowerPoint)

Feb 22, 2022: Anxiety and Vedic Wisdom (PDF of PowerPoint)

Feb 22, 2022: Anxiety and Vedic Wisdom (video of webinar)

Jan 18, 2022: Religiously Integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression (PDF of PowerPoint)

Jan 18, 2022: Religiously Integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression (video of webinar)

Dec 14, 2021: World Psychiatric Association Position Statement on Religion/Spirituality and Implications for Clinical Practice (PDF of PowerPoint)

Dec 14, 2021: Ethics at the Interface of Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatric Practice (PDF of paper by Francis Lu, M.D.; for additional info on cultural psychiatry, go to https://a.co/8lp0jpw)

Dec 14, 2021: World Psychiatric Association Position Statement on Religion/Spirituality and Implications for Clinical Practice (video of webinar)

Nov 16, 2021: Using spirituality to cope with Covid-19: the experiences of African-American breast cancer survivors (PDF of PowerPoint)

Nov 16, 2021: Using spirituality to cope with Covid-19: the experiences of African-American breast cancer survivors (video of webinar)

Oct 19, 2021: Current Concepts in Sleep & Insomnia (PDF of PowerPoint)

Oct 19, 2021: Current Concepts in Sleep & Insomnia (video of webinar)

Sept 21, 2021: Why Don’t People Stand on Their Head to Pray? Mind-Body Connections in Religious Practice (PDF of PowerPoint)

Sept 21, 2021: Why Don’t People Stand on Their Head to Pray? Mind-Body Connections in Religious Practice (video of webinar)

Aug 24, 2021: Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease (PDF of PowerPoint)

Aug 24, 2021: Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease (video of webinar)

July 27, 2021: Spirituality and Mental Health of Muslims in America (PDF of PowerPoint)

July 27, 2021: Spirituality and Mental Health of Muslims in America (video of webinar)

June 29, 2021: From Design Thinking to Brain Spirit Desks — Bridging the Mental Healthcare Gap in Ghana (PDF of PowerPoint)

June 29, 2021: From Design Thinking to Brain Spirit Desks – Bridging the Mental Health Care Gap in Ghana (video of webinar)

May 18, 2021: Teaching the History of Religious Healing (PDF of PowerPoint)

May 18, 2021: Teaching the History of Religious Healing (video of webinar)

April 27, 2021: Religion and Mental Health: Is the Relationship Causal? (PDF of PowerPoint)

April 27, 2021: Religion and Mental Health: Is the Relationship Causal? (video of webinar)

Mar 30, 2021: Diseases and Deaths of Despair: Interpretation and Responses as Practices of Care (video of webinar)

Mar 11, 2021: David B. Larson Memorial Lecture: From the Broad Street Pump, to Call the Midwife, to the Ebola Crisis: Lessons for Partnerships in Religion and Public Health for the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF of PowerPoint)

Mar 11, 2021: David B. Larson Memorial Lecture (video of presentation)

Feb 23, 2021: SPEARS: The Essence of Space. A Therapeutic Tool Bridging Faith and Science (PDF of PowerPoint)

Feb 23, 2021: SPEARS Worksheet (PDF)

Feb 23, 2021: SPEARS: The Essence of Space. A Therapeutic Tool Bridging Faith and Sciences (video of webinar)

Jan 26, 2021: Narrative Medicine for Spiritual Health: The Case of Moral Injury in Healthcare Professionals (PDF of PowerPoint)

Jan 26, 2021: Narrative Medicine for Spiritual Health: The Case of Moral Injury in Healthcare Professionals (video of webinar)

Dec 15, 2020: Holistic and Spiritually Integrated Approaches to the Prevention of Suicide and Treatment of Moral Injury in Veterans with PTSD (PDF of PowerPoint)

Dec 15, 2020: Holistic and Spiritually Integrated Approaches to the Prevention of Suicide and Treatment of Moral Injury in Veterans with PTSD (video of webinar)

Nov 17, 2020: It Takes a Village: Counseling & Older Adult Kinship Caregivers (PDF of PowerPoint)

Nov 17, 2020: It Takes a Village: Counseling & Oldeer Adult Kinship Caregivers (video of webinar)

Oct 27, 2020: Laughter:Benefits to Mind, Body, and Spirit (PDF of PowerPoint)

Oct 27, 2020: Laughter: Benefits to Mind, Body, and Spirit (video of webinar)

Sept 29, 2020: Food, Faith and Health from a Christian Context (PDF of PowerPoint)

Sept 29, 2020: Food, Faith and Health from a Christian Context (video of webinar)

Aug 25, 2020: Islam and Mental Health – Beliefs, Research, and Clinical Applications (PDF of PowerPoint)

Aug 25, 2020: Islam and Mental Health – Beliefs, Research, and Clinical Applications (video of webinar)

July 29, 2020: COVID-19, Religion and Health (PDF of PowerPoint)

July 29, 2020: COVID-19, Religion and Health (video of webinar)

 

Miscellaneous Seminars

Oct 10,  2022: Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health (lecture, Tasmania, Australia) (PDF)

Oct 10, 2022: Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health (video)

Oct 2, 2020: Spirituality and Religion in Healthcare (PDF of PowerPoint)

Oct 2, 2020: Spirituality and Religion in Healthcare (video of lecture to undergraduate nursing and physiotherapy students at Lleida University in Spain)

Oct 26, 2020: Interview by Mohammad Baazm (of the Ministry of Health in Iran) with Dr. Koenig regarding research on religion and health (video)

Nov 10, 2020: Spirituality and the Lifetime Course of Mental Illness: Support by the Faith Community (video) (sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Columbia University, with Harold Koenig and Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church with Rick Warren)

Nov 11, 2020: Spiritually Charged Deliveries (panel discussion on effects of religious faith on pregnancy/delivery in Muslim communities; Wasat Institute Webinar) (video)

Nov 12, 2020: Religion and Mental Health (Dr. Koenig presenting at International Mental Health Festival in The Netherlands (remotely) (video)

 

Past Seminars

2010 Seminars

2009 Seminars

2008 Seminars

2007 Seminars