Spirituality and Mental Health
A handbook for service users, carers and staff wishing to bring a spiritual dimension to mental health services
This resource contains 23 chapters on aspects of spirituality and mental health written by experts in the field. It promotes an understanding of people’s belief systems rather than a mechanistic approach to mental health services and proves the increasing importance of spirituality in health and social care.
Content includes:
Chapter 1 - Understanding mental health and spirituality
Peter Gilbert
Chapter 2 - Researching spirituality: evidence and practice
John Swinton and Madeleine Parkes
Chapter 3 - Spirituality and mental health services
Peter Richmond and Peter Gilbert
Chapter 4 - The service user view
Peter Gilbert with Joanna Barber and Madeleine Parkes
Chapter 5 - The only verity is my soul – the carer’s view
Barbara Pointon, with Jacqui Miller and Peter Gilbert
Chapter 6 - Professional attitudes
Madeleine Parkes and Jo Barber
Chapter 7- Ethnicity and spirituality
Hári Sewell
Chapter 8 - Faith perspectives on mental health, and work with faith communities
Arthur Hawes and Qaisra Khan
Chapter 9 - Psychological approaches to spirituality
Sarajane Aris
Chapter 10 - Assessing a person’s spiritual needs in a healthcare setting
Sarah Eagger and Wilf McSherry, with Peter Gilbert and Steve Wharmby
Chapter 11 - Children and young people’s well-being
Rebecca Nye
Chapter 12 - Dementia and spirituality: a perfume always remembered
Ben Bano, Susan Benbow and Kate Read
Chapter 13 - Mental health, dignity and palliative care
Andrew Goodhead and Malcolm Payne
Chapter 14 - Death – the ultimate challenge
Margaret Holloway
Chapter 15 - Educating for spiritual care
Bernard Moss, Janice Clarke and Ivor Moody
Chapter 16 - Valuing staff and training for spiritual care
Katja Milner and Julian Raffay
Chapter 17 - Equality and human rights approaches in the NHS: making spirituality in mental health care count?
Ranjit Senghera
Chapter 18 - Mental health and the sexual, religious and spiritual identities of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people
Sarah Carr
Chapter 19 - Mindfulness-based stress reduction in mental health care practitioners
Julian Bowers
Chapter 20 - Reflective practice – the ‘soul’ of professional engagement in relationship work
Joy Gauci
Chapter 21 - Chaplaincy and mental health
Andrew Wilson and Rob Merchant
Chapter 22 - Recovery and spirituality: aligning ourselves with ourselves
Tanya Kennard-Campbell
Chapter 23 - Historical, spiritual and evolutionary approaches to suffering, compassion, caring and the caring professions
Paul Gilbert
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