Socially Just Religious And Spiritual Interventions

Author : Elisabeth Esmiol Wilson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030019861
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socially Just Religious and Spiritual Interventions written by Elisabeth Esmiol Wilson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful work answers essential questions in family therapy by exploring the ethical use of religion and spirituality in the clinical context. Its justice-informed framework explores how to employ the spiritual as a source of resilience and empowerment as well as counter harmful spiritual and religious influences in situations that cause families and couples stress, particularly relating to gender, sexuality, race, culture, and identity. Powerful case studies show therapists and clients collaborating on meaning-making and comfort in the face of longstanding conflict, acute and chronic illness, estrangement, and loss. Coverage also explores the ethical responsibilities of determining whether beliefs are helpful or harmful to client mental health and offers guidelines for therapists navigating personal biases regarding faith. This vital text: · Spotlights the influence of an often-overlooked aspect of mental health · Provides detailed examples of religion and spirituality across diverse families and issues · Outlines practical strategies for integrating helpful aspects of clients’ relationship with the sacred into treatment · Offers a framework for countering harmful aspects of clients’ religious beliefs or practices · Includes interventions used with couples, parents/children, and other family units · Adds a socially just perspective on the spiritual dimension of mind/body concerns · Encourages readers’ professional development and self-reflection Addressing critical issues where belief frequently takes center stage, Socially Just Religious and Spiritual Interventions is an invaluable resource for family therapists, psychotherapists, and other professionals pursuing a socially just, clinically relevant approach to spiritual and religious therapeutic integration.

Author : Michael J. Sheridan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134928017
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connecting Spirituality and Social Justice written by Michael J. Sheridan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Wallis, well-known justice advocate and author, has stated that the two great hungers in the world today are for spirituality and social justice. Although social work and related fields have increasingly recognized the importance of addressing spirituality within clinical practice, less attention has been paid to the role of spirituality in promoting social justice or supporting social change within macropractice. The contributions in this edited collection highlight current developments in this area, including emerging conceptual frameworks, practice applications and research findings. Theoretical approaches to understanding the link between spirituality and justice are explored in analyses of alternative models of social justice and justice orientations of major faith traditions. The critical role of spirituality in larger system change is illustrated through exemplars of research on vulnerable populations, community practice, legislative advocacy, development of social movements, and ecological social work. The importance of including content on religion and spirituality in professional curricula is explored through research on students’ attitudes toward spirituality and social advocacy. Noting the resonating themes within all of these contributions, the volume concludes with an overview of emerging principles for spiritual activism. This book aims to stimulate further development in the vital connection between spirituality and social justice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work.

Author : James R. Dudley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317752651
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirituality Matters in Social Work written by James R. Dudley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a focus that is lacking (or not clearly evident) in most spirituality books, Dudley addresses specific ways of incorporating spirituality into practice and integrates many of the contributions of other writers into an overall eclectic practice approach. His approach revolves around many of the core competencies of the EPAS accreditation (CSWE, 2008). Most of the core competencies are addressed with an emphasis on professional identity, ethical practice, critical thinking, diversity, practice contexts, and, a major practice framework of the book, the practice stages of engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.

Author : Thomas Massaro, SJ
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442271752
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercy in Action written by Thomas Massaro, SJ and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has tackled many issues of urgent reform within the church. Mercy in Action explores Pope Francis’s efforts to renewCatholic social teaching—the guidance the church offers on matters that pertain to social justice in the world. The book examines what Pope Francis has said, done, and written on six critical social issues today—economic inequality, worker justice, preserving the environment, healthy family life, the plight of refugees, and peacemaking. The book also highlights both continuity and change in Catholic social teaching. Author Thomas Massaro illustrates how on each social issue—from expressing solidarity with unemployed workers to writing an encyclical addressing environmental degradation and climate change—Pope Francis has worked to update the church’s message of social justice and mercy.

Author : Cyndy Baskin
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
ISBN 13 : 1773381180
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirituality and Social Justice: Spirit in the Political Quest for a Just World written by Cyndy Baskin and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituality and Social Justice explores how critically informed spirituality can serve as an inspiration and a political force in the quest for social and ecological justice. Writing from various spiritual and religious worldviews, including Indigenous, Islamic, Wicca/Witchcraft, Jewish, Buddhist, and Christian, the authors—practitioners and academics of social work—draw on lived experience, research, and literature to illuminate how relationship with spirit can orient ways of being and acting to build a more just society. In Part One, the authors foreground Indigenous spirituality as resistance and decolonization. Part Two examines the complex ethical and political dimensions of spirituality, including the ecological destruction of the Earth and the influence of contemporary neoliberalism. Lastly, Part Three explores spirituality in teaching and learning contexts, both inside and beyond the classroom. Engaging and well-written, Spirituality and Social Justice challenges the notion that practitioners must put aside their critical spirituality in teaching, learning, healing, and practice. Students, practitioners, and academics of social work and other helping professions will benefit from the unique insights into spirituality and religion and how they inform social justice activism.

Author : Lindsey A. Nice
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031299302
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice and Systemic Family Therapy Training written by Lindsey A. Nice and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the lived experiences of systemic family therapy educators. It addresses the issues of power and justice that they face in family therapy training programs, including their teaching experiences with students, interactions with faculty, and challenges within academic institutions. It describes how family therapy programs attempt to incorporate cultural awareness with mixed results (e.g., focusing only on how to work with diverse clients or not supporting faculty from across social locations). The book explores the ways in which family therapy educators with intersecting marginalized identities continue to be oppressed across different areas of academia. The book addresses issues of power that systemic family therapy educators face within the academia itself at three different levels: Personal interactions with students that create more complete understanding of issues of power. Professional interactions with colleagues that provide support and accountability. Political interventions aimed at changing the larger academic institution. Chapters focus on countering unjust practices in academic settings. Authors reflect on personal experiences across these three levels and, then, offer concrete suggestions for intervention. These include teaching experiences or meaningful interactions with students that support empowerment or increased awareness; relationships with colleagues that promote accountability and growth; and needed changes or challenges to the larger structure of academia. Social Justice and Systemic Family Therapy Training is an essential resource for clinicians, therapists, and practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in family studies, clinical psychology, and public health as well as all interrelated disciplines.

Author : Carmen Knudson-Martin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003820883
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Step-by-Step Guide to Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy written by Carmen Knudson-Martin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing to the practicing clinician, this book offers a step-by-step practical guide to Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy (SERT) when working with individuals, couples, and families. Most therapists know sociocultural systems influence their clients’ lives, but few know how to connect the dots between what happens in the wider society, interpersonal neurobiology, relational processes, and client well-being. Written by a founder of SERT, Carmen Knudson-Martin draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines to innovatively weave together a practical step-by-step guide that demystifies the connections between micro and macro processes and relational/self-development. Divided into four parts, chapters cover how to conceptualize clinical issues through a socio-emotional lens, the therapist’s role in assessment, goal-setting, clinical decision-making, the “how-to” of each of the three phases of the SERT clinical sequence, and self-of-the-therapist work and clinical research that inform the model. The clear writing style and detailed examples make complex social processes accessible, demonstrating how good practice is—and must be—equitable and socially responsible. This practical guide is essential reading for all mental health professionals, such as seasoned family therapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and students in training in these fields.

Author : Ashmi Desai
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030890430
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Dialogue in the Classroom written by Ashmi Desai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores globally-informed, culturally-rooted approaches to dialogue in the classroom. It seeks to fill gaps in communication and education literature related to decolonizing dialogue and breaking binaries by decentering Eurocentric perspectives and providing space for dialogic practices grounded in cultural wealth of students and teachers. We first describe the book’s genesis, contextualize dialogue within the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and share guiding concepts of inclusion, intersectionality, and authenticity in dialogue and pedagogy. We also distinguish dialogue from other practices and times in which dialogue may not be possible. The book brings fresh and urgent perspectives from authors across different disciplines, including ceramics, religious studies, cultural studies, communication, family therapy, and conflict resolution. The chapters distill the idea of dialogue within contexts like a bible circle, university sculpture studio, trauma and peacebuilding program, and connect dialogue to teaching, learning, and emerging ideas of power disruption, in-betweenness, and relationality.

Author : Furness, Sheila
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1861349815
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, Belief and Social Work written by Furness, Sheila and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how religion and related beliefs have varied impacts on the needs and perceptions of practitioners, service users, and the support networks available to them. The authors argue that social workers need to understand these phenomena, so that they can become more confident in challenging discriminatory and oppressive practices. The centrality of religion and associated beliefs in the lives of many is emphasised, as are their potentially liberating (and potentially negative) impacts. In line with the Social Work in Practice series style, the book allows readers to explore issues in depth. It focuses on knowledge transmission, and the encouragement of critical reflection on practice. Each chapter is built around 'real-life' case scenarios using a problem-based learning approach. This book is the first to deal with social work and religion so comprehensively and will therefore be essential reading not only for social work students, but also for practitioners in a range of areas, social work academics and researchers in the UK and beyond.

Author : Christie Eppler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040049699
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Systemic Resilience in Therapy written by Christie Eppler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapists intuitively know that the families, partnerships, and individuals they treat have strengths, but may not know how to identify or utilize them. This edited collection aims to help therapists understand and apply concepts of systemic resilience in clinical practice, supporting them in conceptualizing cases, treatment planning, and developing supportive therapeutic relationships. Christie Eppler, PhD, brings together a collection of voices to provide comprehensive guidance on what systemic resilience is and how therapists can enhance the lives and relationships of their clients. Based on contemporary training standards, this text emphasizes practice-based applications and focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Chapters address how to foster resilience in clinical treatment with individual and relational clients, supervisees, and in the therapist’s own life. With case studies, clinical activities, interventions, and reflective questions throughout, this approachable text will help therapists empower their clients. This book demonstrates to practicing and established therapists how connections, community involvement, shared visions and a sense of purpose, and healthy relationships can promote growth, healing, and transformation. This is essential reading for students and professionals in counseling, clinical social work, and marriage and family therapy.