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Seminars and workshops

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Faith in Older People organised a series of seminars to explore these issues which encompassed:

Spirituality and Mental Health
– Professor John Swinton

  • Mental health is not the absence of anything; it is the presence of God
  • Mental health is not an ideal, a concept or a goal, it is a relationship
  • Mental health is a theological concept
  • The presence of God is often revealed through human relationships
Spirituality and Mental Health presentationDownload

Finding Jesus in the Storm – The spiritual lives of Christians with mental health challenges

John Swinton (2020) Wm B Eerdmans Publising


Mental health in the final chapters of life – offering hope
– Rev Canon Dr Marion Chatterley

  • Safe space
  • Honest conversations
  • Exploration of ideas – whatever they are
  • Prayer
  • Anointing/blessing
Mental health in the final chapters of life presentationDownload

Understanding Mental health problems – when is mental health spiritual health in older people
– Professor Austyn Snowden

  • Overlap between mental and spiritual health. 
  • Formal classification of depression and the anxiety disorders 
  • Classification of Spiritual Disorders?
  • Meeting spiritual need in Primary Care: Measurement? Persuasion?
  • An example of a study designed to help people in spiritual distress in primary care
  •  Scottish Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM), 
Understanding mental health presentationDownload

A fourth seminar was held which was a discussion between different faiths and their perspectives on mental health challenges.

Close up of forget me notes in sunlight

The challenge for older people is to make sense of life at a stage when loss and change occur more frequently and perhaps more painfully.

Malcolm Goldsmith, founder of Faith in Older People

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