Full Description
This book aims to help readers appreciate the many-faceted relationship between Christianity, one of the world's major faith traditions, and the practice of psychiatry. Chapter authors in this book first consider challenges posed by historical antagonisms, church-based mental health stigma, and controversy over phenomena such as hearing voices. Next, others explore both how Christians often experience conditions such as mood and psychotic disorders, disorders in children and adolescents, moral injury and PTSD, and ways that their faith can serve as a resource in their healing. Twelve Step spirituality, originally informed by Christianity, is the subject of a chapter, as are issues raised for Christians by disability, death and dying. A set of chapters then focuses on the state of integration of Christian beliefs and practices into psychotherapy, treatment delivery, educational programming, clergy/clinician collaboration, and treatment by a non-Christian psychiatrist. Finally, thereare chapters by a mental health professional who has been a patient, a Jewish psychiatrist, a Muslim psychiatrist knowledgeable about Christianity and psychiatry in the Muslim majority world, and a Christian psychiatrist. These chapters provide context, diversity and personal perspectives.
Christianity and Psychiatry is a valuable resource for mental health professionals seeking to understand and address the particular challenges that arise when caring for Christian patients.
Contents
The Fraught History of Psychiatry and Christianity.- Mental Illness Stigma in Christian Communities.- Psychotic symptoms and spiritual phenomena.- Mood Disorders & Christianity.- Working with Christian Children and Families.- Trauma.- Understanding Moral Injury in Individuals: Current Models, Concepts, and Treatments.- Moral Injury in Christian Organizations: Sacred Moral Injury.- Christianity and Disability.- Miracles and Care at the End of Life.- Addiction and Twelve-Step Spirituality.- Models of integration of Christian worldview and psychiatry.- Christian Integrated Psychotherapy.- Models of Delivering Christian Psychiatric Care.- Clergy-Clinician Collaboration.- Principles and Practice in Educating Christians About Mental Health - A Primer.- Called to lead?.- Treating Christian Patients as a Non-Christian Psychiatrist.- A Jewish Psychiatrist's Perspective.- Christianity from a British-Muslim Psychiatrist's Perspective.- A Christian Psychiatrist's Perspective.
