Spirituality and Mental Health
eBook - ePub

Spirituality and Mental Health

A handbook for service users, carers and staff wishin to bring a spiritual dimension to mental health services

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  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Spirituality and Mental Health

A handbook for service users, carers and staff wishin to bring a spiritual dimension to mental health services

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About this book

This handbook has 23 chapters on aspects of spirituality and mental health wrriten 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Contributors
  5. Chapter 1: Understanding mental health and spirituality
  6. Chapter 2: Researching spirituality: evidence and practice
  7. Chapter 3: Spirituality and mental health services
  8. Chapter 4: The service user view
  9. Chapter 5: The only verity is my soul – the carer’s view
  10. Chapter 6: Professional attitudes
  11. Chapter 7: Ethnicity and spirituality
  12. Chapter 8: Faith perspectives on mental health, and work with faith communities
  13. Chapter 9: Psychological approaches to spirituality
  14. Chapter 10: Assessing a person’s spiritual needs in a healthcare setting
  15. Chapter 11: Children and young people’s well-being
  16. Chapter 12: Dementia and spirituality: a perfume always remembered
  17. Chapter 13: Mental health, dignity and palliative care
  18. Chapter 14: Death – the ultimate challenge
  19. Chapter 15: Educating for spiritual care
  20. Chapter 16: Valuing staff and training for spiritual care
  21. Chapter 17: Equality and human rights approaches in the NHS: making spirituality in mental health care count?
  22. Chapter 18: Mental health and the sexual, religious and spiritual identities of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people
  23. Chapter 19: Mindfulness-based stress reduction in mental health care practitioners
  24. Chapter 20: Reflective practice – the ‘soul’ of professional engagement in relationship work
  25. Chapter 21: Chaplaincy and mental health
  26. Chapter 22: Recovery and spirituality: aligning ourselves with ourselves
  27. Chapter 23: Historical, spiritual and evolutionary approaches to suffering, compassion, caring and the caring professions