1st Edition
Spirited Practices Spirituality and the helping professions
Edited By Fran Gale
Copyright 2007
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Spirituality and religion are fundamental to all human cultures. Yet in the helping professions, whose shared objective is to promote human well being, questions of spirituality have often been avoided. Now we are increasingly realising that scientific materialism and individuality have failed to meet enduring human needs for meaning and connection. Evidence mounts for the importance of... Read more
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
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
Biography
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.
