The following is based on an opening statement for a recent debate I participated in: To begin, I would like to summarize the state of the scientific literature concerning the relationship between Mormonism and mental health. Quite often in debates like this, you’ll get both parties cherry picking studies that agree with them and then the debate turns into quibbles over methodology or whose studies are more biased. While these are important conversations to be had, for the sake of time I want to bypass this problem by giving you an overview of all the studies that have been published on this subject over the last several decades. When researchers want to know what the state of the literature is on a given subject, they conduct a literature review where they search for all the studies that have been published on a subject within a certain time period and then they summarize their findings. To date, there have been 3 such reviews that have been published on this subject. In 1996, Dr.
Mormonism and Mental Health
Mormonism and Mental Health
Mormonism and Mental Health
The following is based on an opening statement for a recent debate I participated in: To begin, I would like to summarize the state of the scientific literature concerning the relationship between Mormonism and mental health. Quite often in debates like this, you’ll get both parties cherry picking studies that agree with them and then the debate turns into quibbles over methodology or whose studies are more biased. While these are important conversations to be had, for the sake of time I want to bypass this problem by giving you an overview of all the studies that have been published on this subject over the last several decades. When researchers want to know what the state of the literature is on a given subject, they conduct a literature review where they search for all the studies that have been published on a subject within a certain time period and then they summarize their findings. To date, there have been 3 such reviews that have been published on this subject. In 1996, Dr.