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Title: Spirituality in Mental Health Care : Rediscovering a Forgotten Dimension
Author: John Swinton
ISBN: 1853028045
EAN: 9781853028045
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221 Pages
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2001-02-15

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Despite a wealth of evidence demonstrating a strong positive correlation between a person's spirituality and their mental health, there is evidence to suggest that those who seek to provide health care are not taking it seriously enough. This work presents a model of mental health care that will enable carers to incorporate spirituality effectively into their caring strategies. Using a critical evidence-based and interdisciplinary approach to contemporary mental health practice, the author explores the therapeutic significance of spirituality for clients in a number of different context with problems such as psychotic disorder, depression, Alzheimer's disease and AIDS, from the perspective of both carers and service-users. The author also provides a critical review of existing literature in the field to assess the place of spirituality in contemporary theory and practice.

John Swinton is the current Editor of Contact. He is Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen and a minister in the Church of Scotland.

2004-08-19 A recommended read for all mental health workers

This book is easy and enjoyable to read but a challenge to put into practice. The dominance of the medical model in mental health care and the paradigm of evidence-based health care has meant that many practioners do not feel confident to use spiritual interventions with the people they wish to help. The call in this book to incorporate a spiritual paradigm into practice enables the reader to appreciate the deep spirtual underpinnings to many people's mental distress and how that experience can then be used to enable recovery. It helps people to validate their spiritual experiences as oppossed to seeing them as an disease entity.

The book focuses on how spiritual healing can be used in a number of different types of distress with a particular emphasis on depression. It also contains an impressive reference list.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wishes to practice or understand mental health care in a holistic way.