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Spirituality, Values
and Mental Health:
Jewels for the Journey
CONTENTS
Foreword
SECTION A – Context
Chapter 1 The Spiritual Foundation: Awareness and Context for People’s Lives Today
Poem: The Dark has a Friendly Face
Chapter 2 Values-based Practice: Help and Healing within a Shared Theology of Diversity
Poem: Softly
Chapter 3 Spirituality and Mental Health across Cultures
Poem: For Bhen ‘Aum Shanti Shanti’
Chapter 4 Loss and Grief: Spiritual Aspects
Poem: Wild wind
Poem: Me
Poem: The Well of Grief
SECTION B – Diverse Perspectives
Chapter 5 Through a Glass Darkly: Looking for My Own Reflection
Poem: Survivor
Chapter 6 A Journey – with Faith: Complex Travels with Islam through the Mental Health System
Reflection: Sehnsucht Cinema
Chapter 7 Connecting Past and Present: A Survivor Reflects on Spirituality and Mental Health
Poem: Adam Forgets Himself
Chapter 8 Who Am I? – The Search for Spirituality in Dementia. A Family Carer’s Perspective
Poem: To Malcolm
Chapter 9 A Chaplain’s Own Story
Reflection: Rituals and Recovery – Sacrament and
Smoking Room in a Mental Health Acute Unit
Chapter 10 Keep Up Your Spirits: Run for Your Life! A View of Running as a Spiritual Experience
Poem: The Guru’s Prayer
SECTION C – Good Practice
Chapter 11 Spiritual Assessment – Narratives and Responses
Poem: Today We Have Spiritual Assessment
Chapter 12 Spirituality and Psychiatry Crossing the Divide
Reflection: Guided by the Breath of God
Chapter 13 Spiritual Competence: Mental Health and Palliative Care
Poem: You Say You Have No Music?
Chapter 14 Working with Qi (Chi) to Help with Mental Health Problems
Poem: Holy Love
Chapter 15 Spiritual Practice Day by Day – Conversations with Those Who Know
Poem: We Without Purpose
Chapter 16 How Different Religious Organisations Can Work Constructively Together
Reflection: The Muslim Community and Mental
Health Care
Chapter 17 Organizational Health: Engaging the Heart of the Organization
Poem: SIMBA’s Black Diversity
SECTION D – Education and Training
Chapter 18 A Plea for Broad Understanding: Why Mental Healt Practitioners Need to Understand Spiritual Matters
Reflection: Church on Sunday Morning
Chapter 19 Promoting Spiritual Well-being in the Workplace – Training and Support for Staff
Poem: Yours
Chapter 20 Awakening the Heart and Soul: Reflections from Therapy
Poem: Restless Sea
Chapter 21 Mental Health Care: The Ultimate Context for Spiritual and Pastoral Formation
A Reflection on Recovery: Psalm 102:2–10, 28
SECTION E – Research
Chapter 22 Researching Spirituality and Mental Health – A Perspective from the Research
Reflection: A Small Piece from a Spiritual Journey
Chapter 23 Researching the Soul: The Somerset Spirituality Project
Poem: Just Be
Chapter 24 Concluding Thoughts
Poem: When all is Said and Done
CONTRIBUTORS
SUBJECT INDEX
AUTHOR INDEX
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[...]... health without mentalhealth (European Commission 2005, p.4) Mentalhealth services are not created out of thin air They are constructed out of our valuesand vision for society, our history, and how we view human nature and the world we live in As Kathleen Jones, the doyenne 32 Spirituality,ValuesandMentalHealth of social historians in mental health, puts it: ‘The way in which’ [people with mental. .. spirituality andmentalhealth care It covers some fascinating and important ground, drawing on empirical research, personal narrative and, most importantly, retaining a continuous focus on the empowerment of service users While taking seriously research and reflection undertaken on people experiencing mentalhealth problems, the volume retains a fundamental focus on research and reflection done with and by... sacraments and gatherings; and the promotion of ties of mutual obligation It creates a framework within which people seek to understand and interpret and make sense of themselves, their lives and daily experiences, and what might happen after death Faith communities can be welcoming, integrative and supportive, while some others can be exclusive and stigmatizing of people experiencing mental ill -health. .. Azim Kidwai and Ali Jan Haider Reflection: The Muslim Community and MentalHealth Care Luthfa Meah Chapter 17 Organizational Health: Engaging the Heart of the Organization 222 228 Sarajane Aris and Peter Gilbert Poem: SIMBA’s Black Diversity Premila Trivedi 243 SECTION D – Education and Training 245 Chapter 18 A Plea for Broad Understanding: Why MentalHealth Practitioners Need to Understand Spiritual... interlinked – we stand both as unique and together, or we drift atomized and alone The long search Ellison states that ‘It is the spirit of human beings which enables and motivates us to search for meaning and purpose in life…the spiritual dimension does not exist in isolation from the psyche and the soma, but provides an 19 20 Spirituality,Values and MentalHealth integrative force’ (Ellison 1983,... mental illness I carried that dis-ease and worked alongside it for the whole of my nursing career Whether I always responded 13 14 Spirituality,Values and MentalHealth constructively to its challenge in my practice I’m not sure, I hope so, but it was difficult and resistance was always on the horizon Some 19 years later I returned to that same hospital in a different role, as a community mental healthcare... people with these life experiences This genuinely collaborative and creative approach to spirituality andmentalhealth is the way forward for the field We all have different gifts and perspectives It is only when we draw them together and learn what it means to live and work peaceably together that the field of spirituality and mentalhealth can truly become a source for good This volume begins to... Foundation: Awareness and Context for People’s Lives Today 33 greatest attention Both are at the heart of the NIMHE Spirituality and MentalHealth Project (see NIMHE/MMF 2003 and Cox et al 2007) Why is spirituality so important in mental health, and why should it be attended to among the plethora of performance measures? First, because users and carers are increasingly stating that their spiritual and/ or religious... more urgent at times of mental ill -health or distress, which many now term a spiritual crisis For decades, we have been told that humans are purely rational and material beings, but there has been a huge, popular and academic interest in spirituality (see Anderson 2003; Bianchi 2002; Francis and Robbins 2005; Heelas and Woodhead 2005; Howard and Welbourn 2004; MacKinlay 2006; Nash and Stewart 2002; Swinton... p.14) 24 Spirituality,ValuesandMentalHealth Table 1.1 The central features of spirituality Meaning The ontological significance of life; making sense of life situations; deriving purpose in existence Value Beliefs and standards that are cherished; having to deal with the truth, beauty, worth, of a thought, object or behaviour; often discussed as ‘ultimate values Transcendence Experience and appreciation .
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