Explore pastoral strategies for dealing with mental health
problems! Mental health is increasingly being recognized as an
important issue in later life. This valuable book will help you
examine this dimension of aging in the context of pastoral,
spiritual, and cultural issues. It explores the relationship
between mental health, spirituality, and religion in later life,
including the search for meaning, cultural issues, spiritual
issues, depression, dementia, and issues of suicide in older
people. The first part of Mental Health and Spirituality in Later
Life focuses on theology, ethics, and cultural issues in mental
health and aging. The second part addresses issues of
multidisciplinary practice, including a challenging chapter written
by a woman with early onset dementia (Alzheimer's) and other
chapters that present perspectives on the uses and meanings of
ritual and symbolism in mental health and pastoral approaches to
care. Part one of Mental Health and Spirituality in Later Life
deals with issues of theology, culture, and mental health in later
life, focusing on: the importance of a richly textured
understanding of personhood as a prerequisite for constructing a
picture of late-life mental health in the context of theology the
relationship between culture, spirituality, and meaning for older
immigrantsand their effects on mental health the adverse effects of
a mental health system that reflects only the dominant culture of a
society, leaving minority cultures vulnerable to misdiagnosis and
inappropriate treatments that can do more harm than good a
wholistic picture of aging that moves beyond the biomedical
paradigm and demonstrates the power and potential of the human
spirit in adjusting to and moving beyond suffering Part two of this
valuable book addresses issues of concern to practitioners in
mental health and spirituality for the aging, including: disruptive
behavior among nursing home residents and common practices that
fail to identify its causes or address the problem how some
staff/resident interactions can produce suffering for all
concernedwith case study outlines that illustrate the point memory
loss and its effect on spirituality, self-worth, and the faith
community pastoral care for people suffering with dementiawith
practical information on helping them to make use of the power of
prayer and to deal with loneliness, fear, and disempowerment an
insightful look at a recent major study of residents in aged care
facilities in Australia that explores the link between depression
and spirituality risk and protective factors associated with
suicide in later life and the treatment of depression pastoral
interventions for depression and dementia
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