Restarting Spirituality And Guiding Health:A Practical Exploration Of Local Spiritual Social Work For Relieving Negative Emotions In The Elderly With Hypertension

In the background aging of society is becoming increasingly serious today,healthy aging concepts has been put on the agenda.Hypertension,a kind of psychosomatic disease caused by the combined effects of physical,psychological,social and other factors,keeps an increasing prevalence rate in the elderly population.What’s worse,it leads to a heavy psychological burden on patients due to various factors such as physiological function,social support system,and economic development.In recent years,social workers have made great achievements in the emotional intervention of the elderly hypertensive groups through case work or group work.However,there are few studies about it from the perspective of spirituality.At the same time,most of the theories and methods used for this research come from the foreign countries,which leads to a lack of pertinence when involved in groups with different cultural backgrounds.Chinese traditional Taoist health has a system solved mechanism for the symptoms caused by emotional factors.It originated in the local area and has been passed down to this day.Taoist Peaceful Mind Therapy of Jinyun can be used as a local spiritual social worke intervention model to relieve the negative mood of the elderly hypertension group.The objects of this thesis are 6 elderly hypertensive patients with negative emotional problems in Z community,Chongqing.After the early visiting the community residents,some questionnaire surveys and interviews,we found that the patients had different degrees of negative emotions due to decreased physiological function,lack of emotional support and their own weak emotional management ability.Taoist Peaceful Mind Therapy of Jinyun believed that the fundamental reason for this situation is that the patient’s inherent mental model leads to their own different degrees of obsession,which made it hard to view the problem with an equal heart.Therefore,this thesis took Jinyun health management workshop as the carrier,based on the treatment process of Taoist Peaceful Mind Therapy of Jinyun,to conduct eight workshop activities.The author tried to help patients to analyze the relationship between the negative emotions of hypertension and the inherent mental model,so that patients could find their own mental model.The patients had used the Taoist traditional breathing methods,they improved their mental qualities,such as relaxation,focus on the present,phenomenon awareness,and full acceptance,so as to master the method to relieve negative emotions,and learn the skills to manage emotions.What’s more,the patients use Taoist traditional dietary method and Taoist traditional calligraphy practice method,which helped them to deepen the practice effect and achieve physical and mental harmony.Through the comparison of the scale scores before and after,it is found that the average score of the patients’ positive emotion dimension increased by about 7 points,and the average score of the negative emotion dimension decreased by about 4 points.It is proved that Taoist Peaceful Mind Therapy of Jinyun has a good soothing effect on the negative mood of the elderly hypertensive patients.Based on the research results,it is believed that Taoist Peaceful Mind Therapy of Jinyun as a localized social work service mode,has obvious advantages compared with the established social work service mode,and provides a feasible perspective for social work to intervene in this field.