OVERVIEW

Religion and Spiritualty in Lifestyle Medicine is organized by American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM).

Term of Approval: February 10, 2025 – February 09, 2028

Description:
Decades of research now support the positive relationship of religion/spirituality (R/S) with physical health, mental health, morbidity, and mortality. While lifestyle medicine (LM) practitioners often recognize R/S as important, they can face common challenges of how to integrate R/S into their holistic, patient-centered care. To help, this article presents a faith-practice framework, as a starting point for considering incorporating R/S into LM practice-in light of common concerns and challenges, as a guide for patient-centered care through adjusting lifestyle prescriptions to accommodate individualized R/S beliefs and practices for improved health behavior and outcomes, and as an encouragement to stimulate openness for positive, thoughtful discussion into the future of R/S in LM practice and research.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define and differentiate between religion, religiosity, secular spirituality, and spirituality  
  • State the percentage of adults who report that religion is an important part of their lives  
  • Describe how religion and spirituality fit within whole health models and among lifestyle medicine pillars   
  • Identify examples of faith-placed vs. faith-based (faith-recognized and faith-integrated) practices within communities and clinics  
  • Recall the proposed basic decision tree questions around religion and spiritually for patient-centered lifestyle medicine clinical care
Credits

Credit Designation Statements:

For Medicine: Rush University Medical Center designates this journal-based CME activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™️. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.  It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.


For Nursing: Rush University Medical Center designates this journal-based CME activity for a maximum of 1.0 nursing contact hour(s).


For Pharmacy: Rush University Medical Center designates this knowledge-based journal-based CME activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hour(s) for pharmacists.


For Psychologists: Rush University Medical Center designates this journal-based CME activity for 1.0 CE credits in psychology.  Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship in the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP).  The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.


For Dieticians: This journal-based CME activity has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration.  Completion of this activity awards 1.0 CPEUs.


For Social Work: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Rush University Medical Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved continuing education (ACE) program.  Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit.  Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 general continuing education credits.


For physical therapy or occupational therapy: Rush University Medical Center is an approved provider for physical therapy (216.000378) and occupational therapy (224.000220) by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. Rush University Medical Center designates this journal-based CME activity for 1.0 continuing education credits.

 

ABLM MOC: The American Board of Lifestyle Medicine has approved 1.0 maintenance of certification credits for this learning activity. 

  • 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1 MOC
  • 1 Contact Hours
  • 1 CE Credits
  • TARGET AUDIENCE

    PhysicianNursingPharmacistPrimary Care PhysicianPhysical TherapistsOccupational TherapistsNursesSocial WorkersDietiticianPsychologists

    SPECIALITIES

    Lifestyle Medicine

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