Research Article
Achieving Cultural Congruency in Weight Loss Interventions: Can a Spirituality-Based Program Attract and Retain an Inner-City Community Sample?
Table 1
Spiritual Self-Schema Therapy (3S): outline of weekly sessions.
| Session | Topic | Description |
| 1 | Introduction to 3S | The “Spiritual Self” and the Noble Eightfold Path |
| 2 | Training in Mastery of the Mind | 1: Becoming Aware and Changing Habit Patterns of the Mind | 3 | 2: Managing “Addict Self” Intrusions | 4 | 3: Mindful Action versus Automatic Reaction |
| 5 | Training in Morality | 1: Mindfulness of Basic Needs | 6 | 2: Everyday Ethics | 7 | 3: Preventing Harm to Self and Others |
| 8 | Training in Wisdom | 1: Filling the Mind with the “Spiritual Self” | 9 | 2: Coping with Stigma | 10 | 3: Renouncing the “Addict Self” Identity and Fully Assuming the “Spiritual Self” Identity | 11 | 4: Serenity and Insight |
| 12 | Termination and Transition | Maintaining the Spiritual Path |
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