Spiritualityand Recovery

PSRT 4271: The Family Role in Rehabilitaiton: Week 11

Spirituality and The Family

Terms

Religion

Organized system of beliefs and rituals

Spirituality

Personal quest for divine connection

Religion for Coping: 5 Purposes? (Busesema & Bussema, 2007, citing Pergament, 1997)

Purpose (meaning, hope…)

Self-development (feeling good…)

Resolve (getting through…)

Sharing (community, intimacy…)

Restraint (of emotions, behavior…)

Parallels with PsyR

Psych Rehab Building Community

Recovery New Meaning and Life Purpose

Difficulties (Bussema & Bussema 2007)

“Belief systems can complicate recovery” (?) Isolation from caring religious

communities?

Religious sensibilities?...

Hallucinations = visions?

“Altered states of consciousness”?

Out of body experiences? (25% have them)

The System: A One Eyed Giant? (Blanch, 2007)

Focused perspective…

Powerful in science…

But…

Limited perspective Unwise about

sacred?...

Rediscovering “New” Facts…(Blanch, 2007)

Religion as a social institution

Increasing cultural and religious diversity

Increasing use of alternative medicine

Challenges

“Real” material world vs. “unreal” nonmaterial world

What About…(Blanch, 2007)

Soul: more important healing vehicle?

Problems: present before conception?

Continuity after death? (Séance?)

Purpose of life: to prepare for death?

All are interconnected?

All healing by God’s grace?...

Dangerous Territory?

Religion: talking to, with, by atheists?

Proselytizing?

Mysticism?

Should anything be “tabo0”?

Approach?

Spiritual information gathering

Acknowledging one’s “explanatory framework”

Include others (clergy?) in consultation

Engage spiritual techniques (e.g., prayer, self-purification)

Pitfalls of the Field…(Blanch, 2007)

“…discomfort about mixing science and religion continues to paralyze the field.”

Religion: really “little more than magical thinking”?…

Western empirical thought: strictly “materialist”, “positivist”?

Providers?...

Studies show: lower levels of religiousness

Psychiatrists, psychologists more than social workers, direct care workers…

Intellectual arrogance?

Wissenschaft [science] uber alles?

The Meaning of Spirituality… For our clients?

For their families?

For ourselves?

Henri Nouwen

Dutch Taught at Menninger Clinic… …Notre Dame, Harvard, Yale Lived with Trappist monks… … and the poor in Peru

Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

Dutch Taught at Menninger Clinic… …Notre Dame, Harvard, Yale Lived with Trappist monks… … and the poor in Peru

Henri Nouwen

Dutch Taught at Menninger Clinic… …Notre Dame, Harvard, Yale Lived with Trappist monks… … and the poor in Peru

L’Arche Daybreak in Toronto

Henri Nouwen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW_6yXxoLQQ#at=10

Attachment… and Detachment Nouwen: We need community!..

Communion Community Attachment Detachment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5se_2Uw4pd4

The Conspiracy of Hope

We have chosen very difficult work. Sometimes I think we are a little weird for choosing this line of work… But we stick with this work and are faithful to it. Why? Because we are part of a conspiracy of hope and we see in the face of each person with a psychiatric disability a life that is just waiting for good soil in which to grow. We are committed to creating that good soil.

Patricia Deegan, Ph.D.

The Origins of Hope1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. [Romans 5:1-5 (RSV) ]

The Basis of HopeFor our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; 10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. 13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. [1 Corinthians 13 RSV]

The Reason to Hope

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And so, inconclusion…

PSRT 4271: The Family Role in Rehabilitation

Course Objectives

1. Students will empathize with family member’s efforts to cope with a relative’s mental/physical illness.

2. Students will recognize what individual families want and need from the health care system.

3. Students will learn how to provide information and support to family members.

4. Students will be prepared to help families in the rehabilitation of a relative with a major psychiatric or physical disability.

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We’ve covered a lot of ground… 89 citations

Guest speakers Jim Romer Shelley Thom Phil Lubitz Amy Spagnolo

Field trip to Greystone

Videos True Life YouToons

Readings Readings Readings

Real-time lived experience…

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