1st Edition
Inviting Spiritual Conversations Incorporating Spirituality into Health and Social Care Practice
Part I - Theory
Chapter 1: Foundational concepts for spiritual conversations
Chapter 2: Considering spirituality as relational consciousness
Chapter 3: Developing relational consciousness through mindfulness
Chapter 4: The need for spiritual conversations
Chapter 5: The Spiritual River model
Chapter 6: Imprints that influence spiritual conversations
Part II – Application
Chapter 7: Application of the Spiritual River model
Chapter 8: Assessment tools for starting a spiritual conversation
Chapter 9: Practices to nurture spirituality
Chapter 10: Possible challenges in having spiritual conversations
Chapter 11: Religious and spiritual trauma
Chapter 12: Summary of inviting spiritual conversations
Epilogue
Biography
Dominic Chilvers is the programme leader for social work at Ara Institute of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. He has been a social worker for over 30 years and held several leadership positions within the profession and in church contexts. Dominic’s current research is focused on spirituality, work-integrated learning, and supervision.
Nikki Kiyimba is a clinical psychologist and academic. She was in church leadership for 20 years and now runs a psychology practice in Aotearoa New Zealand offering training, supervision, consultancy, and treatment of PTSD. Nikki has published several textbooks and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.
