Spirituality and Psychiatry

by Chris Cook (Editor), Andrew Powell (Editor), Andrew Sims (Editor)

Spirituality is a crucial but sometimes overlooked aspect of mental well-being and psychiatric care. This book explores the nature of spirituality, its relationship to religion, and the reasons for its importance in clinical practice. In this evidence-based text, the authors discuss the prevention and management of illness, as well as the maintenance of recovery. Different chapters focus on the key subspecialties of psychiatry, including psychotherapy, child and adolescent psychiatry, intellectual disability psychiatry, substance misuse psychiatry and old age psychiatry. It contains references to up-to-date research and provides a comprehensive review of the relevant academic literature. The book is, at least in part, a response to the questions posed by researchers, service users and clinicians, concerning the importance of spirituality in mental healthcare. Contributors include psychiatrists, psychotherapists, mental healthcare chaplains and a social worker. They discuss aspects of experience often omitted from psychiatry and present both clinician and service user perspectives.

318 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Tim Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comprehensive coverage of Health Care - Counseling - Psychiatry; chapter 13 is co-written by the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally : "Spiritual Care in the NHS". The essay writers intend to offer NATIONAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES (the U.K. Health System) as a case study in how the structure and intention of a healthcare system affect the practice of spiritual care, sometimes in quite profound yet often hidden ways. Intends for the understandings & perspectives might transfer even across global contextual differences. 5*