Winding Road: Preliminary Support for a Spiritually Integrated Intervention Addressing College Students’ Spiritual Struggles

Abstract

Research and theory identify the college years as a period likely to evoke spiritual questions, tensions, and conflicts. At the same time, students frequently report that they have few resources for engaging these struggles. This paper describes the rationale, development, and initial evaluation of Winding Road , a novel, spiritually-integrated intervention designed to address spiritual struggles in a religiously diverse college student sample. Data from this small, open-trial study offer preliminary evidence that a university-supported program to address difficulties in the spiritual lives of college students is valuable and feasible and effective in improving psychological and spiritual outcomes. Application of Winding Road to other target risk populations, such as individuals facing other potentially difficult life-transitions (e.g., illness, post-deployment) is also discussed. Keywords:college students; psychological distress; spiritual struggle; Winding Road

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