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Religion and Spirituality
The issue of religion and
spirituality is being recognised as increasingly important in human
services as part of our commitment to respect, value and accept the
whole person. In the past these aspects have often been ignored, partly
through workers feeling uncomfortable about how to deal with these
issues, and partly through the recognition that religion in particular
has often contributed to human misery and oppression. In this book I
have tried to keep a balance between acknowledging the dark side of
these topics, but also helping people see the ways in which people’s
resilience and health can be enhanced by their religious and spiritual
world views.
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Values
In this book I have taken as a
framework the 10 Essential Capabilities familiar to workers in the
mental health field, and have explored the value base for all human
services through this approach. I hope that this provides a fresh look
at a subject which rightly remains at the heart of all good practice in
the helping professions.
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Communication Skills for Health and Social Care
This book complements many of
the standard text books on communication skills by adopting a dictionary
approach to its key themes. It seeks to provide an introduction to each
topic; some relevant exercises for readers to use either for individual
learning or in the context of professional supervision; and suggestions
for further reading. Its distinctive style tackles some topics not
mentioned in other texts’ such as ‘breaking bad news’; how to chair
meetings’; ‘whistle-blowing’ and guidelines for giving talks and
presentations. It has been written with a wide cross section of helping
professions in mind so that anyone who works with people in any way will
find it useful.
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