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Gathering together thoughts and visions of experienced
practitioners, academics, educators and strategic leaders from
around the world, this edited volume sheds light on the nature of
chaplaincy and its role and significance within ever-changing
contemporary healthcare systems. A wide range of issues central to
spiritual care delivery are covered, including reflections on what
it feels like to be cared for by a chaplain through illness; the
nature of chaplaincy as a profession; and how chaplains can engage
with healthcare institutions in ways that have integrity yet are
also deeply spiritual. The focus throughout is that chaplaincy
should not only be guidance for people in distress, as a form of
crisis intervention, but is rather about helping to promote
wellbeing and enhance people's quality of life. Where specialisms
tend to fragment systems and individuals, this book seeks to show
that true health and wellbeing can only be found through a holistic
approach, and shows how chaplaincy can bring this to the table.
This book is for anyone who recognises the centrality of
spirituality for wellbeing, and wishes to see what that might look
like in practice.
As the global marketplace grows and becomes more complex,
increasing stress is placed upon employees. Businesses are
acknowledging this change in work habits by adapting the work place
to offer support through multifaith chaplaincy. Multifaith
chaplaincy is based on developing relationships of trust between
diverse faith communities and the public workplace. Through the
experience of starting the first multifaith chaplaincy in Canary
Wharf, the author offers insights into current conditions and
challenges of chaplaincy in the business community. Writing as an
Anglican priest, Fiona Stewart-Darling shows the importance of
chaplaincy teams drawing on different faith traditions. This book
is an important contribution to the emerging debate around the role
of chaplaincy in faith and business communities. This research will
be of particular interest to those working in or setting up
chaplaincies in different contexts such as hospitals, prisons, town
centre chaplaincies working with businesses and business leaders,
particularly those involved in diversity and inclusion in the
workplace.
This edited collection about good practice for mental health
chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality
is viewed across mental health fields. It identifies what mental
health chaplaincy is, how mental health chaplaincy interacts with
other organisations like the NHS, and what good practice means with
examples of positive and fulfilling experiences in mental health
settings. The chapters consider some of the main issues of working
with the mental health community, such as the place of volunteers,
the recovery process, religious diversity and patient safety. They
are followed by uplifting case studies, including service user
perspectives, to provide a valuable overall insight into mental
health chaplaincy and its context in wider mental health services.
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Margriet Van Der Kooi, Cornelis van der Kooi; Foreword by Nicholas P. Wolterstorff
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"I love my robot lawn mowers, my laptop, wifi, Google, Facetime,
Whatsapp and the possibility of drone postal deliveries and more..
Yet worries nag about being overwhelmed by an artificial
intelligence revolution whose ethical and moral parameters are less
clear than its rampant profiteering from and monetising of your
lives and mine. This hugely informative book shakes us out of our
massage armchairs and demands that we engage immediately with these
galloping advances so we can shape them to the benefit of the many
and not leave them to the enrichment of the few at the awful cost
of the impoverishment of swathes of humanity". Mary McAleese,
former President of Ireland. "Robots, Ethics and The Future of Jobs
is a wakeup call for political, civic, media and church leaders,
urging a response to the deepening and accelerating pace of
technological change and its potential consequences. Artificial
Intelligence, robotics, drones, the internet of things and 3D
printing are the building blocks of the 4th industrial revolution.
These technologies offer great potential but also carry real risks
and are reaching into every corner of our lives, civilian and
military. Who will win and who will lose? Who will set the rules
and the ethical boundaries within which they should develop and
operate? Will the displaced be included, if so, how; or ignored
and, if so, with what political, social and economic consequences?
That these questions cannot be avoided and should not be postponed
- and that we do not need to wait for change to happen because it
is already upon us - are central messages of this thought provoking
text." Pat Cox, former President European Parliament.
The contributors, who each work with spiritual issues, either
explicitly as spiritual directors or accompaniers, or as an
implicit part of their therapeutic work, offer a
psychologically-informed approach to Spiritual Accompaniment and
Direction, and to working with others on a spiritual level more
generally. They explore what it means to be attuned to the
spiritual process of another, discuss what makes an effective
relationship in Spiritual Accompaniment and counselling, and
consider how best to work with spiritual crisis, spiritual abuse,
and pain. The unconscious process informing the work, forgiveness,
changing spiritual needs over the life-span, and models of
supervision that can inform the practice of Spiritual Accompaniment
are also explored. A case study is presented, providing
psychological and theological insights into the accompaniment
process. Grounded in work with the spiritual dimension of others
and aspiring to improve encounters at a spiritual level, this
concise book has important implications for the practice of
counsellors, psychotherapists, and spiritual accompaniers and
directors.
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