The steps outlined within these pages work. What we find in this helpful workbook is an author who has been in the trenches of depression herself. Those of us who have been in the pit appreciate it when a fellow sufferer offers a guiding hand.
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And you will not find any psycho-babble in these pages. Each chapter presents a Biblical principle and builds on the previous chapters. The participant is encouraged to read one chapter each week, working through the study questions and actively doing the given assignments.
The author has drawn on her own experiences as illustrations for some of the points. She also employs Scripture verses, word pictures, tables or graphs to illuminate a lesson. At the conclusion of each chapter is a short heart-felt prayer. The amount of material to read is not overwhelming or technical. Instead I felt as if I were sitting on the couch with a cup of hot cocoa warming my hands, talking about a shared experience with my sister…or chuckling over an amusing incident.
I could tell that Ms. Swindall really cares that her readers find healing and wholeness through the transforming work of the Holy Spirit. The book is well organized with succinct divisions that make this a terrific resource. If a person becomes serious about overcoming depression using this book as a guide, the author recommends working through it with a friend or a small group.
Another person is able to help hold the participant accountable and provide much needed encouragement. Emotional healing takes time. Achieving wholeness when all you can think about is your brokenness is a process where sometimes all the progress a person can make for awhile is baby steps. Another person sharing the journey can help prevent discouragement. Finally, Jenny Swindall encourages her readers to visit her website where she provides a video introduction for each of the chapters in the book.
The website address is provided on the final pages. If the reader is part of a small group working through the book together, these short videos are a great way to open each session. A complimentary review copy was provided to me by Charisma House Publishing and the Booketeria. I was not required to write a positive review. But he also found hope in films, including Breakfast at Tiffany's and Blazing Saddles. To the mental health issues facing clergy and others in the helping professions Griggs brings to bear insights from research and from his own experience as a pastor and a person recovering from depression.
He tells his story with spirit and humor. Depression and related illnesses threaten to wreck the lives of many teens and their families. Suicide driven by these illnesses is one of the top killers of young people. How do teens become depressed? What does depression feel like? How can we identify it? What helps depressed teens? How do families cope with teen depression? In A Relentless Hope , Dr. Gary Nelson uses his experience as a pastor and pastoral counselor to guide the reader through an exploration of these and many other questions about depression in teens. He's worked with many teens over the years offering help to those confronted by this potentially devastating illness.
The author also uses the story of his own son's journey through depression to weave together insights into the spiritual, emotional, cognitive, biological, and relational dimensions of teen depression. The book is written for those without formal clinical training, so it appeals to teens, parents, teachers, pastors, and any who walk with the afflicted through this valley of the shadow of death. Through careful analysis, candid self-revelation, practical advice, and even humor, this pastor, counselor, and father, reminds us God's light of healing can shine through the darkness of depression and offer hope for struggling teens and their families.
Available on Amazo n. Pinsky has gathered stories from churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples across the country, "stories of people with disabilities and the congregations where they have found welcome. There were 54 million American with disabilities as of , and that number is now being swelled by wounded warriors from the Afghan and Iraq wars and an aging population. The author emphasizes that his purpose is to not to write a resource manual on accessibility and inclusion.
Rather, Pinsky seeks to share stories of how people with disabilities have experienced their faith in the context of their disability, and how congregations have gained when they value the gifts that people with disabilities bring along. The book is divided into three parts: Our culture is frantic with worry. Worry is part of our culture, an expectation of responsible people. And sadly, Christians are no different. But we are called to live and think differently from the worried world around us. Worry is a spiritual problem, which ultimately cannot be overcome with sheer willpower—its solution is rooted entirely in who God is.
Correctly understanding the theology of worry is critical to true transformation. In gripping fashion, Monica Coleman examines the ways that the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty, and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness. Those same forces accompanied her into the black religious traditions and Christian ministry. All the while, she wrestled with her own bipolar disorder. Bipolar Faith is both a spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness. In this powerful book, Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death.
Citing serendipitous encounters with black intellectuals like Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Only as she was able to face her illness was she able to live faithfully with bipolar. Tonya Armstrong, a licensed psychologist, minister, and seminary administrator. By taking seriously the cultural and spiritual identities of Black Christian women, Dr. Armstrong addresses the unique challenges of Black women and provides practical resources that promote wholeness. Using the transformative tools of psychoeducation, vignettes of Black Christian women living with mental illness, inspirational music, spoken word exercises, and a wealth of spiritual, mental health, and wellness resources, Dr.
Armstrong guides us toward optimal functioning in mind, spirit, body, and soul.
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This memoir is an honest look at the stress, anger, education, and finally, hope experienced through eyes of a mother. Along the way, she questions her trust in God as their family encounters setbacks, inadequate treatments, and additional family health crises, but with the help of trusted family, friends, education, and support groups, author Virginia Pillars learns to rely on her faith as she faces the challenges that often accompany mental illness.
Countless Christians - including scores of saints - have suffered profound, pervasive sorrow that modern psychiatrists call "depression. Catholic psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty reviews the effective ways that have recently been devised to deal with this grave and sometimes deadly affliction - ways that are not only consistent with the teachings of the Church, but even rooted in many of those teachings.
Available through Saddleback Church. Why are some people—even in the toughest times—always filled with joy, while most of us can't seem to find lasting joy no matter how hard we search? Do joy-filled people know something we don't? The answer is yes! And in her warm, candid style, Kay Warren shares that life-transforming truth with you. Clinical psychologist Richard Roukema understands the common roles played by clergy and psychiatrists who care for congregants struggling with mental and emotional illnesses. He appreciates the spiritual dimension of healing as an integral part of care for the emotionally distressed religious patient.
This book examines the history of psychiatry, addresses current research into brain chemistry, and discusses the success of modern medicine to correct or control symptoms of mental disorders. Roukema systematically addresses a wide range of mood disorders, neuroses, personality disorders and traits, sexual and eating disorders, and the effects of loss and stress.
He provides clear and useful information aimed at giving clergy the necessary tools to recognize and understand the care and treatment that might be appropriate for the affected person. He consistently points to ways the clergy can most effectively provide support and resources for the patient and family. Issues of pastoral ethics, as well as self-care, are addressed. Roukema concludes with guidance in the referrals of patients. What could have been a voluminous text filled with medical jargon and little contact with the role of clergy turns out to be a concise, yet thorough, educational and reference book that deserves a special place on the bookshelf of pastors and counselors alike.
Seminaries would do well to consider using this text in courses on pastoral care and counseling.
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Where is God in the suffering of a mentally ill person? What happens to the soul when the mind is ill? How are Christians to respond to mental illness? In this brave and compassionate book, theologian and priest Kathryn Greene-McCreight confronts these difficult questions raised by her own mental illness--bipolar disorder. With brutal honesty, she tackles often avoided topics such as suicide, mental hospitals, and electroconvulsive therapy. Greene-McCreight offers the reader everything from poignant and raw glimpses into the mind of a mentally ill person to practical and forthright advice for their friends, family, and clergy.
The first edition has been recognized as one of the finest books on the subject. This thoroughly revised edition incorporates updated research and adds anecdotal and pastoral commentary. It also includes a new foreword by the current Archbishop of Canterbury and a new afterword by the author. With insight born of experience and conviction, The Carter Center's Gary Gunderson suggests ways that congregations, religious leaders, and concerned individuals can take practical steps to improve the health of their communities.
Eminently practical yet deeply religious, Gunderson's book will help people of faith nurture community life at its roots. In this small yet immensely helpful guide, pastor Thomas Lewis offers spiritual resources for the many persons today suffering from depression. By turning his readers toward praying the Psalms, as he did in his own battle with depression, Lewis assists those seeking hope and a healing touch to find, in his words, "a cup of cold water in parched land.
This book will prove to be a valuable resource for those engaged in pastoral care and counseling, for those who have loved ones suffering from depression, and persons suffering from depression themselves. There is something mysterious about hope.
You can be in dire straits and have a great deal of hope. You can have everything going your way and have little or no hope at all. As Jevne and Miller explain in this book, hope has a powerful effect upon your life. After explaining what hope is and is not, they describe how it works and offer twenty-two specific ideas about how to find, keep, and build hope in one's personal life.
The book is designed to be not just about hope but an experience in hope itself. It contains many insightful quotations from the ages as well as black and white photography that is hopeful in effect. After battling bipolar disorder and finding no spiritual support group for his own journey to wholeness, Pastor Brad Hoefs developed his own support group model and workbook.
These include accepting a diagnosis, restoring relationships, pushing past excuses and faulty thinking patterns, choosing hope, trusting others, understanding the role of medications and God's purposes for pain. The interactive workbook format allows the individual to respond to supporting Bible passages and recovery principles. The book is available in paperback and as an e-book. Suitable for recovery support groups. Each day men and women diagnosed with mental disorders are told they need to pray more and turn from their sin.
Mental illness is equated with demonic possession, weak faith and generational sin. Why is it that the church has struggled in ministering to those with mental illnesses? As both a church leader and professor of psychology and neuroscience, Michael S. Stanford has seen far too many mentally ill brothers and sisters damaged by well-meaning believers who respond to them out of fear or misinformation rather than grace. Grace for the Afflicted is written to educate Christians about mental illness from both biblical and scientific perspectives.
Stanford presents insights into our physical and spiritual nature and discusses the appropriate role of psychology and psychiatry in the life of the believer. Describing common mental disorders, Stanford asks of each: This resource has a wealth of helpful information divided into three sections: The chapters address topics such as treatment modalities, suicide, substance abuse, stigma, family relationships, college students, work place and support for caregivers.
Available from Wipf and Stock. Drawing on her own experience of befriending a person suffering from a long-term mental health challenge, Priscilla Oh reflects on the meaning of care and friendship theologically. Readers will find themselves deeply engaged in the psychological pain and confusion of both the author and her friend.
This honest and compassionate book will be of great value to families, church members, and professionals engaged in the care and treatment of mentally ill people. In taking us on her personal journey into depression, Gregg-Schroeder encourages a new understanding of the spiritual gifts that can come from depression. Autographed by Susan Gregg-Schroeder.
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Group Study Guide provides small-group leaders with the material needed to facilitate a four-session study. In her book, Learning to Walk in the Dark , Taylor reflects on finding strength and comfort in troubled times. She has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all that is good with lightness and all that is evil and dangerous with darkness.
Often, it is while we are in the dark that we grow the most. Available at Chalice Press.
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Is your church prepared to save lives? Every year, millions of people engage in suicidal activity, yet the Church remains largely silent around mental health and suicide prevention. Pastor and suicide survivor Rachael Keefe shares her own personal story of lifelong depression, eating disorders, and suicidality to equip congregations to recognize and respond to those suffering silently in the pew. Memoir, theological reflection, and action guide combined, each chapter concludes with a "What Your Congregation Can Do Now" section to get you started building a community of abundant life for all.
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Johnson, widely renowned religious psychotherapists and psychotherapy researchers. This thoroughly updated edition is fully aligned with the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-V and the latest evidence regarding evidence-based psychological treatments. The second edition also contains a new chapter on ministerial triage as well as additions to the DSM-V such as autism spectrum disorder and somatic symptom disorders.
Written with deep empathy for the demands of contemporary pastoring, this guide is destined to become an indispensable reference work for busy clergy in all ministry roles and settings. Available from Fortress Press Available on Amazon. As a pastoral caregiver, you may have met with someone in your congregation who persistently demonstrated a sad, morose mood…or someone who suffered from an addiction…or someone whose behavior seemed out of touch with reality. But you may not have understood what these attitudes and behaviors meant, and you may not have known what you ought to do in response.
Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families brings together the voices of eighteen psychiatrists and pastoral theologians who collaborate to offer recent information about mental illness, to interpret mental illness in the light of faith, and to suggest effective ministerial responses. This book offers an integrated dialogue between psychiatrists and pastoral caregivers that can surface the most relevant information for readers. It also seeks to encourage conversation among people in congregations around the experiences of a faith community when someone is diagnosed with a mental illness.
Specific illnesses addressed include depression, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, substance-use disorders, eating disorders, autism, acquired brain injury, and dementia.
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A concluding chapter discusses psychopharmacology. One unique element of this book is the extensive bibliography that appears at the end of each chapter. Many of the items in these bibliographies are web-based resources that feature free information and help. Here is credible information on the realities of mental illness and how pastors and congregations can best respond.
Graham has studying the traumatic impact of war, moral dissonance and injury in the life of individuals and communities. If we can share our burdens, we can bear them. If we can bear them, we can change the circumstances that brought them about. In a world where anything goes, people have a hard time deciding what is right and what is wrong.
She is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a professor at Claremont School of Theology, and suffers from mental illness. In her book, Not Alone , she wedded her belief system to her condition, going so far as saying she finds God in her pills. Not Alone is a day devotional wrestling with some of the tough issues around faith and depression.