Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in Mental Health Settings
Author: Jean Fletcher, John Swinton, Margaret Whipp, Simon Harrison, Christopher C.H. Cook, Lucy Grimwade, Ben Ryan, Neil Bunker, Richard Allen and Cameron Langlands
A reflection on current thinking about spirituality in mental health work
This edited collection provides a diverse insight into mental health chaplaincy work. It covers trends and themes of the general mental health scene, good practice in chaplaincy and spiritual care, and it concludes with several uplifting case studies, including several from service users.
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A reflection on current thinking about spirituality in mental health work
This edited collection provides a diverse insight into mental health chaplaincy work. It covers trends and themes of the general mental health scene, good practice in chaplaincy and spiritual care, and it concludes with several uplifting case studies, including several from service users.
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This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields. It identifies what mental health chaplaincy is, how mental health chaplaincy interacts with other organisations like the NHS, and what good practice means with examples of positive and fulfilling experiences in mental health settings.
The chapters consider some of the main issues of working with the mental health community, such as the place of volunteers, the recovery process, religious diversity and patient safety. They are followed by uplifting case studies, including service user perspectives, to provide a valuable overall insight into mental health chaplaincy and its context in wider mental health services.
Critic Reviews
“This impressive and international set of chapters, mostly practice-oriented with pertinent academic background (Cook, Ryan and Bierbaum), ranges through the changing and contested landscape of mental well-being and spiritual care. Underlain by the impact of the NHS Chaplaincy Guidelines 2015 and the UK Equality Act 2010, the work embraces both professional identity, volunteer and service user deployment (Harrison, Allen and Eaton), and Recovery College and 'Exploring Your Spiritual Side' models, including vital coverage of learning disability, dementia and the community (Louis and Isakjee, Collins et al; Kevern and Brooker; Bunker). Fletcher brings together a compelling compendium which offers, in her words, a sustaining 'cycle of pastoral support'. The chapters evidence admirable scope and local colour to create a bright meaning-rich rainbow of experience and learning. The book breaks new ground in showcasing what is best in the diverse practice of NHS mental health chaplaincy today.”
This impressive and international set of chapters, mostly practice-oriented with pertinent academic background (Cook, Ryan and Bierbaum), ranges through the changing and contested landscape of mental well-being and spiritual care. Underlain by the impact of the NHS Chaplaincy Guidelines 2015 and the UK Equality Act 2010, the work embraces both professional identity, volunteer and service user deployment (Harrison, Allen and Eaton), and Recovery College and 'Exploring Your Spiritual Side' models, including vital coverage of learning disability, dementia and the community (Louis and Isakjee, Collins et al; Kevern and Brooker; Bunker).
Fletcher brings together a compelling compendium which offers, in her words, a sustaining 'cycle of pastoral support'. The chapters evidence admirable scope and local colour to create a bright meaning-rich rainbow of experience and learning. The book breaks new ground in showcasing what is best in the diverse practice of NHS mental health chaplaincy today.
This is an important addition to the growing body of work which reflects on the experience of chaplaincy and spiritual care. The authors are leading practitioners and academics, offering significant insights into the context of mental health care. Essential reading for those involved or connected to this field. -- Chris Swift, Director of Chaplaincy and Spirituality at MHA and Visiting Professor in Pastoral, Religious and Spiritual Care at Staffordshire University
Jean Fletcher must be congratulated for bringing together such a diverse and rich expression of mental health chaplaincy. This book will engage the reader in sustained reflection on the practice of spiritual care in settings that ask the profoundest of questions about the nature of human life. -- Stephen Bushell
'Holistic and Person Centred Care' resounded like a refrain in my heart as I read this resource book full of the wisdom, love and broad experience of its authors. The passion they have in common? Amazing creativity in finding ways to be alongside and care for sufferers of mental, emotional and spiritual distress or disturbance; listen deeply to their individual stories as they struggle to give meaning to their life journey. No easy answers, instead a lot of helpful questions for reflective practice. -- Regula Hug, Sisters of St Andrew, retired Prison and Mental Health Chaplain, London
About the Author
Jean Fletcher was the Chair of the College of Health Care Chaplains Mental Health Chaplains' Forum and Team Chaplain in the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, until she retired in October 2018.
This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other relatedprofessionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields. It identifieswhat mental health chaplaincy is, how mental health chaplaincy interacts with otherorganisations like the NHS, and what good practice means with examples of positive andfulfilling experiences in mental health settings.The chapters consider some of the main issues of working with the mental healthcommunity, such as the place of volunteers, the recovery process, religious diversity andpatient safety. They are followed by uplifting case studies, including service userperspectives, to provide a valuable overall insight into mental health chaplaincy and itscontext in wider mental health services.
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