Leavey, G;
Loewenthal, K;
King, M;
(2017)
Pastoral care of mental illness and the accommodation of African Christian beliefs and practices by UK clergy.
Transcultural Psychiatry
, 54
(1)
pp. 86-106.
10.1177/1363461516689016.
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Abstract
Faith-based organisations, especially those related to specific ethnic or migrant groups, are increasingly viewed by secular Western government agencies as potential collaborators in community health and welfare programmes. Although clergy are often called upon to provide mental health pastoral care, their response to such problems remains relatively unexamined. This paper examines how clergy working in multiethnic settings do not always have the answers that people want, or perhaps need, to problems of misfortune and suffering. In the UK these barriers can be attributed, generally, to a lack of training on mental health problems and minimal collaboration with health services. The current paper attempts to highlight the dilemmas of the established churches’ involvement in mental health care in the context of diversity. We explore the inability of established churches to accommodate African and other spiritual beliefs and practices related to the etiology and treatment of mental health problems.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Pastoral care of mental illness and the accommodation of African Christian beliefs and practices by UK clergy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1363461516689016 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461516689016 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | ethnicity, faith-based organisations, mental illness, pluralism, religion, secularism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10057672 |
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