Spirited Practices: Spirituality and the Helping Professions

ISBN-13: 9781741750614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str.

Fran Gale; Natalie Bolzan; Dorothy McRae-Mcmahon

Opis

A motivational read for anyone in the helping professions seeking to develop a spiritually aware practice, this guidebook shows professionals how to think critically while being open to religious and spiritual ideas. Especially in the time of distress, crisis, and illness, spirituality can be of monumental importance as a universal human observation, and with professionals and teachers from the varied fields of the helping professions testifying as tohow they integrated spirituality into their work, this resource highlights the advantages of incorporating ecumenical approachs to work. "

Spis treści

Introduction: Spiritually sensitive helping practices - Fran Gale

1 Disconnection - Veronica Brady

2 Helping practices within a strongly defined faith tradition - Weis Schuiringa

3 Spirituality and displaced persons - Lyn Bender

4 Guilt - Dorothy McRae-McMahon

5 Healing in Hinduism - Shanti Raman

6 Aboriginal healing Dreaming and Western medicine - Esme Holmes and Hilary Byrne Armstrong

7 Illness - Joseph Daniel Toltz

8 Mental health and young people - Michael Dudley with acknowledgments to Dorothy McRae-McMahon

9 Loss and death in Islam - Nooria Mehraby

10 Working with children - Margaret Crompton

11 Buddhism, mental illness and loss - Giles Barton

12 Working against domestic violence - Karen Wilcox

13 Violence - Darri Adamson

14 Islamic faith based counselling - Hanan Dover

15 A hidden dimension of indigenous health - Yvonne Orley

16 Social work group practice - Diana Coholi

O autorze

Fran Gale is Senior Research Fellow in the Social Justice Social Change Research Centre and lecturer at the University of Western Sydney. Natalie Bolzan is Associate Professor in Social Work at the University of Western Sydney. Dorothy McRae-McMahon has worked as National Director for Mission for the Uniting Church, as a staff member of the NSW Ecumenical Council and as a Parish Minister with the Pitt Street Uniting Church.