The website Adherents.com posts information about studies of religious affiliation, atheism and suicide.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posts information on the use of antidepressants. According to this data, taken from surveys conducted from 2005-2008, 11 percent of Americans 12 and older take such medications.

The National Institute of Mental Health posts statistics on mental disorders. Among them: In any given year, about one in four adults in the U.S. has a diagnosable mental disorder; about 6 percent of Americans have a serious mental illness.

Read a May 1, 2005, Psychology Today article about how more Americans are turning to religious counseling rather than psychotherapy for their mental health needs.

Read the March 6, 2009, Christianity Today cover story. Other articles in the package include “Connecting to Hope,” “When You’re Depressed,” “Light When All Is Dark” and “My Life with Antidepressants.”

Read a June 14, 2011, article by the Rev. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Mohler criticizes the recourse to therapy as “the answer to every problem, including a moral crisis.”

An article in the winter/spring 2011 edition of the Harvard Divinity Bulletin, “The Rationalization of Suffering,” by James Davies. Davies, a psychotherapist in Britain, talks about the role of suffering and faith in therapy and its implications for the practice of counseling.

A June 22, 2011, ScienceDaily.com story about a Baylor University study’s findings on how mental illness affects individuals’ relationships — and the relationships of family members — with their place of worship.

An Oct. 25, 2011, article in Scientific American about evidence-based psychological treatments for the devout.