Working with Religious and Spiritual Experience in Family Therapy: Manna for the Journey

Pearson, Alastair

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“…The first position seeks to prepare MHPSS professionals to adopt or gain competency with religious themes to provide better care for religious clients or populations (cf. Trusty et al 2022;Pearson 2017;Abu-Raiya 2015). The second position seeks to soften religious actors-and especially indigenous religious leaders-to psychosocial concepts in the hope that they will foster higher levels of mental health within their communities (cf.…”

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Psychosocial Workers and Indigenous Religious Leaders: An Integrated Vision for Collaboration in Humanitarian Crisis Response

Alexander,

Letovaltseva

2023

Religions

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Indigenous religious leaders can be the most trusted organic helping agents within vulnerable communities, but often lack orientation to the language and paradigms of the mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) professionals responding to their communities after a crisis. Similarly, MHPSS professionals work within paradigms which do not always match the indigenous world views of the vulnerable people they seek to help and therefore can undermine community stability while attempting to provide a service. In parallel, the spiritual care offered by indigenous religious leaders does not always optimally intersect with evidence-based MPHSS interventions, although it is highly likely that both approaches to care provide important benefits to the community, some of which are missing or underemphasized in one or the other. Training approaches designed to orient religious leaders to the work of MHPSS are usually funded and delivered by MHPSS professionals and tend to leverage MHPSS assumptions and portray MHPSS interventions as the most important lines of effort in care. This may leave religious leaders feeling uncertain of their ability to contribute to multi-disciplinary efforts without migrating away from their own foundational assumptions about humanity, illness, and wellness. Often missing from the field is a parallel effort in training which offers MHPSS professionals insight into the efficacy of indigenous spiritual interventions of various kinds and how working alongside indigenous religious leaders can aid them in protecting against the well-known pathologizing tendencies present in their own models of care. The authors are experienced in working during and after community crisis with both MHPSS professionals and indigenous religious leaders and offer an integrated vision for combined training and combined support planning that may facilitate collaboration after crisis in vulnerable communities.

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Psychosocial Workers and Indigenous Religious Leaders: An Integrated Vision for Collaboration in Humanitarian Crisis Response

Alexander,

Letovaltseva

2023

Religions

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“…Regardless of the approach, elements of RS have been applied in different intervention models, such as music therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (Lauzon, 2020.;Pearce et al, 2015.). The clientele of practices or interventions with RS elements is various and includes students, psychiatric rehabilitants, chronically ill patients, drug addicts and families as service units (Butkovic-Andelic, 2018.; Pearce et al, 2015.;Pearson, 2017.;Smothers et al, 2019.;Subica and Yamada, 2018. ).…”

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Utjecaj Religioznosti I Duhovnosti Na Svakodnevnu Praksu Socijalnih Radnika

Kwan

Yeung

Kong

2021

ASW

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THE IMPACT OF RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY ON SOCIAL WORKERS’ DAILY PRACTICE Although social work can trace the roots of its establishment as a profession to religion/spirituality, the relationship between social work and religion/spirituality has deteriorated due to the former’s professionalisation and secularisation. Nevertheless, religious/spiritual values are important for many social work services and for the practice of the profession. It is, hence, worth demarcating the role of religion/spirituality for frontline social workers. In the current qualitative study, repeated interviews were conducted with 11 Chinese social workers from diverse social work settings. It was noted that Eastern and Western religion/spirituality can instilmeaning and value in the profession’s nature.

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Spiritual and Religious Issues in Systemic Family Therapy

Aldrich¹,

Crabtree²

2020

The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy

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Working with Religious and Spiritual Experience in Family Therapy: Manna for the Journey

Cited by 12 publications

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Psychosocial Workers and Indigenous Religious Leaders: An Integrated Vision for Collaboration in Humanitarian Crisis Response

Psychosocial Workers and Indigenous Religious Leaders: An Integrated Vision for Collaboration in Humanitarian Crisis Response

Utjecaj Religioznosti I Duhovnosti Na Svakodnevnu Praksu Socijalnih Radnika

Spiritual and Religious Issues in Systemic Family Therapy

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