A Reflection on the Methodology of Spiritual Health Studies

"Spiritual health" unlike some other dimensions of health, is complex and interdisciplinary in nature. Aside from the concept of "Health", the most important complexity in this combination is the concept of "spirituality", which has emerged in religious and secular paradigms, various and contradictory interpretations of it. The aim of the current research is to explain the optimal methodology and harms of this field of study, considering the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of the issue of spiritual health.

The current research, with the analytical-philosophical method and with the approach of philosophy of science, has addressed the issue of the methodology of spiritual health studies, its quality and pathology.

Research in the field of spiritual health can proceed in two ways: 1. The integration of methods, which is included in the category of "methodological interdisciplinarity", in which problem solving is done using a range of methods. 2. The integration of theories, which is included in the category of "theoretical interdisciplinarity" and in which we will seek to combine views and theories (views). Single-method and single-view researches on the issue of spiritual health are considered as two serious harms in this field of study.

Although in mental health studies, we need both a methodical interdisciplinary and a theoretical interdisciplinary, the theoretical interdisciplinary provides the researcher with a higher and deeper level of interdisciplinary than the methodical interdisciplinary.