The View of Religion on Mental Health: The Christian Worldview

Abstract

The Bible is the standard for Christianity otherwise known as the inspired word of God written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. This paper seeks to assess the impact of biblical Christian teachings on mental health. It also seeks to review the modern Christianity view on mental health and compare them with scientific views. The paper was guided by the social psychology theory which posits that social influences, perception and interaction are vital in understanding social behaviour. The paper adopted a secondary research design to gather the required data for the topic. Documents review was the main method of data collection.  This paper established that the Christian religious teachings had a positive view on mental health in the sense that they gave hope to the mentally ill and prescribed remedies which in turn helped in bringing about and or maintained mental health. This paper recommends that Christian religious beliefs should be upheld to improve mental health