HEALING SURVEY

The national survey for the Healing Initiative will be run in the early spring of 2005.  Orthodox Christian Professionals in Medicine, Psychology, and Religion will participate in this study.

Sample questionnaires are available below.

Sample National Survey Questionaires

THE HEALING INITIATIVE

CLERGY QUESTIONNAIRE:

This questionnaire seeks to ascertain your understanding and professional management as a clergyman with particular reference to your spiritual convictions and practices concerning healing.

This questionnaire is anonymous to insure confidentiality.  Because no link exists between your answers and this study, if you wish to receive more information about this and similar projects of the Institute for Medicine, Psychology, and Religion please join our mailing list on IMPR.com.

Kindly answer the following questionnaire and submit it online or print it out and return it at your earliest convenience to IMPR, P.O BOX 380958, CAMBRIDGE,  MA.  02138.  Your cooperation is very helpful.

Profession Archdiocese

1. Do you practice services of healing in your community?   

Which services?                      How often?

 

 

2. Do you think religious practice affects physical and/or emotional healing?

3. Do you think oneÕs spirituality affects physical and/or emotional healing?

4. How do you understand that we are healed through our religious practice?

5. Do your religious beliefs affect the way in which you understand and practice healing in your own life?

If so, how do you understand how your faith affects your life physically, emotionally, and spiritually?

(IF YOU ANSWERED ÒYESÓ TO QUESTION 5, PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS; OTHERWISE PLEASE PROCEED TO QUESTION 12. YOU MAY OFFER COMMENTS AT THE END OF THIS FORM.)

6. What helps you to discern how faith may be introduced in the healing of your parishioners?

Check all that apply:

I assume that all of my parishioners have strong faith. 

A parishioner must be ready.  Faith takes time to grow, 

I listen carefully to parishioners in order to determine how they see their own faith and how it should be incorporated. 

Scripture calls us to incorporate faith in healing. 

Faith heals by reminding parishioners that they are important to God. 

Parishioners must accept the will of God.         

7. Do you ever pray for healing of your parishioners? 

If so, are the parishioners within your religious tradition?

Approximately what percentage of your parishioners that you individually counsel do you offer specific prayers for (apart from the petitions for the church.)

Under what circumstances might you pray for a parishioner?

Can you cite an example?

8. Have you ever felt part of Divine (miraculous) healing through your ministry?

Can you cite an example?

     

9. Do you think that one should pray for healing before consulting with health professionals, simultaneously, or following?              

Can you explain your thoughts on this question?

10. How do you understand the relationship between healing from God and healing through professional interventions?

Check all the apply:

Professional intervention is a lesser substitute for GodÕs healing. 

Professional healing is more reliable than miraculous healing.

God is the source of all healingÐÐboth from professionals and from miracles. 

The approaches of professionals and faith compliment each other, so long as professionals do not reject the idea of God. 

Professional healing and faith should be seamless and integrated.

11. Do you think Orthodox Christianity has particular insights to assist health providers?

Please explain:

12. Would you be interested in learning more about how professional services may be enhanced through integration of spiritual aspects of healing?

COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS, AND THOUGHTS ON THIS TOPIC: