Addresses policy and practice for professionals working in the mental health field and for carers and people with mental health problems themselves, enabling them to overcome the stigma often associated with mental health problems, and the subject of spirituality. This book is useful for mental health practitioners, service users, and others. This book gathers together contributions from mental health professionals, carers and mental health service users and survivors. It addresses the stigma that can surround both mental health and spirituality and explores the spiritual in mental health care, teasing out its implications for research, education, training and good practice. Foreword 13 John Swinton SECTION A Context 17 Chapter 1 The Spiritual Foundation: Awareness and Context for People's Lives Today 19 Peter Gilbert Poem: The Dark has a Friendly Face 44 Ju Blencowe Chapter 2 Values-based Practice: Help and Healing within a Shared Theology of Diversity 45 Bill (K.W.M.) Fulford and Kim Woodbridge Poem: Softly 58 Jonathan Ratcliffe Chapter 3 Spirituality and Mental Health across Cultures 59 Suman Fernando Poem: For Bhen 'Awn Shanti Shanti' 67 Premila Trivedi Chapter 4 Loss and Grief: Spiritual Aspects 70 Neil Thompson Poem: The Well of Grief 80 David Whyte Poem: Wild Wind 80 Rose Snow Poem: Me 81 Fozia Sarwar SECTION B Diverse Perspectives 83 Chapter 5 Through a Glass Darkly: Looking for My Own Reflection 84 Sarah Carr Poem: Survivor 88 Ju Blencowe Chapter 6 A Journey with Faith: Complex Travels with Islam through the Mental Health System 89 Mariyam Maule, Premila Trivedi, Andrew Wilson and Veronica Dewan Reflection: Sehnsucht Cinema 97 Sarah Carr Chapter 7 Connecting Past and Present: A Survivor Reflects on Spirituality and Mental Health 102 Vicky Nicholls Poem: Adam Forgets Himself 113 Jim Green Chapter 8 Who Am I? - The Search for Spirituality in Dementia. A Family Carer's Perspective 114 Barbara Pointon Poem: To Malcolm 120 Barbara Pointon Chapter 9 A Chaplain's Own Story 121 Paul Chapple Reflection: Rituals and Recovery Sacrament and Smoking Room in a Mental Health Acute Unit 132 Christopher Newell Chapter 10 Keep Up Your Spirits: Run for Your Life! A View of Running as a Spiritual Experience 135 Peter Gilbert Poem: The Guru's Prayer 141 William Burt SECTION C Good Practice I I43 Chapter 11 Spiritual Assessment - Narratives and Responses 144 Wendy Edwards and Peter Gilbert Poem: Today We Have Spiritual Assessment 160 Mary Ellen Coyte Chapter 12 Spirituality and Psychiatry - Crossing the Divide 161 Andrew Powell Reflection: Guided by the Breath of God 172 Paul Grey Chapter 13 Spiritual Competence: Mental Health and Palliative Care 173 Cameron Langlands, David Mitchell and Tom Gordon Poem: You Say You Have No Music? 182 Mark Bones Chapter 14 Working with Qi (Chi) to Help with Mental Health Problems 183 Nigel Mills Poem: Holy Love 193 Khazim Reshot Chapter 15 Spiritual Practice Day by Day Conversations with Those who Know 194 Mary Ellen Coyte Poem: We Without Purpose 206 Mary Ellen Coyte Chapter 16 How Different Religious Organizations Can Work Constructively Together 208 Azim Kidwai and Ali Jan Haider Reflection:The Muslim Community and Mental Health Care 222 Luthfa Meah Chapter 17 Organizational Health: Engaging the Heart of the Organization 228 Sarajane Aris and Peter Gilbert Poem: SIMBA's Black Diversity 243 Premila Trivedi SECTION D Education and Training 245 Chapter 18 A Plea for Broad Understanding: Why Mental Health Practitioners Need to Understand Spiritual Matters 246 Christopher MacKenna Reflection: Church on Sunday Morning 256 Peter Bates Chapter 19 Promoting Spiritual Well-being in the Workplace - Training and Support for Staff 259 Frances Basset and Thurstine Basset Poem: Yours 269 Fatima Kassam Chapter 20 Awakening the Heart and Soul: Reflections from Therapy 270 Brian Thome Poem: Restless Sea 275 Peter Gilbert Chapter 21 Mental Health Care: The Ultimate Context for Spiritual and Pastoral Formation 277 Julia Head and Mark Sutherland A Reflection on Recovery: Psalm 102: 2-10, 28 288 Arthur Hawes SECTION E Research 291 Chapter 22 Researching Spirituality and Mental Health A Perspective from the Research 292 John Swinton Reflection: A Small Piece from a Spiritual Journey 306 Basia Spalek Chapter 23 Researching the Soul: The Somerset Spirituality Project 307 John Foskett and Anne Roberts Poem: Just Be 317 Sue Holt Chapter 24 Concluding Thoughts 318 Mary Ellen Coyte, Peter Gilbert and Vicky Nicholls Poem: When All is Said and Done 320 Vicky Nicholls THE CONTRIBUTORS 322 SUBJECT INDEX 330 AUTHOR INDEX 334