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Abstract
This handbook 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.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | 3 | ||
| Contributors | 6 | ||
| Chapter 1: Understanding mental health and spirituality | 23 | ||
| Chapter 2: Researching spirituality: evidence and practice | 45 | ||
| Chapter 3: Spirituality and mental health services | 63 | ||
| Chapter 4: The service user view | 81 | ||
| Chapter 5: The only verity is my soul – the carer's view | 104 | ||
| Chapter 6: Professional attitudes | 123 | ||
| Chapter 7: Ethnicity and spirituality | 137 | ||
| Chapter 8: Faith perspectives on mental health, and work with faith communities | 155 | ||
| Chapter 9: Psychological approaches to spirituality | 173 | ||
| Chapter 10: Assessing a person’s spiritual needs in a healthcare setting | 193 | ||
| Chapter 11: Children and young people’s well-being | 217 | ||
| Chapter 12: Dementia and spirituality: a perfume always remembered | 231 | ||
| Chapter 13: Mental health, dignity and palliative care | 253 | ||
| Chapter 14: Death – the ultimate challenge | 269 | ||
| Chapter 15: Educating for spiritual care | 281 | ||
| Chapter 16: Valuing staff and training for spiritual care | 297 | ||
| Chapter 17: Equality and human rights approaches in the NHS: making spirituality in mental health care count? | 315 | ||
| Chapter 18: Mental health and the sexual, religious and spiritual identities of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people | 335 | ||
| Chapter 19: Mindfulness-based stress reduction and mental health care practitioners | 355 | ||
| Chapter 20: Reflective practice – the ‘soul’ of professional engagement in relationship work | 373 | ||
| Chapter 21: Chaplaincy and mental health | 395 | ||
| Chapter 22: Recovery and spirituality: aligning ourselves with ourselves | 405 | ||
| Chapter 23: Historical, spiritual and evolutionary approaches to suffering, compassion, caring and the caring professions | 423 |