Main description:

This ground-breaking handbook explores the nature of spirituality and its relevance to the mental health and well-being of people coming into contact with health, social care, education and allied support services. Incorporating the perspectives and experience of over 35 leading academics and practitioners in the field, the book offers a practical guide that includes the contemporary context, details of relevant demonstration projects and therapeutic interventions, and issues for services, staff, managers, leaders and trainers. Opportunities for reflection and practice pointers and offered throughout. The book pays due attention to the current climate of the covid-19 pandemic and the trauma and mental health needs linked to it (both for patients and staff), black and minority ethnic and trans-gender issues, and the voice of mental health experts by experience. Organized into thematic sections, it offers an update to previous publications in the field, including a consideration of spirituality and the new landscape going forwards.

Contents:

Foreword - Prof Jamie Hacker Hughes (neatly completed)
Introduction (Where are we now?)
1. Introduction
2. Integrating Spirituality into Mental Health Services
3. African Psychology & Spiritness in Twin Pandemics
4. Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Covid World
Across the Life Cycle
5. Children and Young People's Mental Health and Spirituality
6. Spirituality in an Older Generation
7. The Need for Spirituality in the Dying Process
Therapeutic Practice
8. Assessing Spirituality
9. Spiritual Crises
10. Therapy for the Whole Person; integrating spirituality within therapy
11. Faith and Mental Health - the Intersection: How Faith Brought me to a Place of Some Wholeness. An Expert by Experience Perspective
12. Spirituality and Psychotherapy
13. Research and spirituality in mental health: Generating, interpreting, and disseminating evidence
14. Spiritual Competencies: Key Ways to Address Spirituality in Mental Health Care
Themes & Journeys
15. Psychological and Christian Perspectives on Mental Health
16. Voices, Visions and the Spiritual Journey
17. Return to Eden... Two Journeys
Spirituality, Services, Leadership and Training
18. Love and Leadership Leads to Conscious Caring
19. Coming at it Obliquely: Spiritual training for Healthcare Staff in an Age of Uncertainty
20. Compassionate Leadership for an Interconnected World
21. Burnout: A Spiritual Crisis, from Trauma to Transformation
22. Spiritual Care in General Practice
23. Beyond the Here and How - The Challenges for the Formal Mental Health System of Embracing Spiritually Informed Models of Care
New Landscapes
24. Reflections on Race, Religion, and Well-Being
25. Ecology, Mental Health and Eco-spirituality
26. The Call of the New Spiritualities: The Unfolding Mysteries of the Universe and Consciousness
27. Beyond Separation: Transpersonal and Spiritual Approaches to Well-Being
Conclusion & Reflections