- A Tough Grace – Mental Illness as a Spiritual Path – Contrary to popular viewpoints that spirituality is pious and easy, this work suggests that the path is usually one of tests and trials and suffering. Mental illness can be a kind of “tough grace” where people can re-frame their experiences to understand them as a hero’s journey that creates wisdom and steely strengths.
- Connect with Joy & Peace – Spirituality: a powerful resource in the wellness and recovery of most people.
- Contemplative Practice in Action: Spirituality Meditation, and Health It examines the nature, function, and impact of meditation and other contemplative practices in several different religious traditions, both eastern and western.
- Creativity, Spirituality, and Mental Health – This book emphasizes the integral connections between imagination, creativity, and spirituality and their role in healing.
- FICA: Personal Spiritual Assessment Tool – The acronym FICA can help structure questions in taking a personal spiritual history.
- Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness – Stanf- ord presents insights into our physical and spiritual nature and discusses the appropriate role of psychology and psychiatry in the life of the believer.
- Is Religion Good for Your Health?: The Effects of Religion on Physical and Mental Health – Integral to the book’s exploration of the relationship between health and religion are the trends that have occurred in society over the last century. You will learn about significant demographic changes, changes in health and health care, and shifts in values, attitudes, and religious conviction, all of which have direct implications for health care providers, the clergy, the “baby boomers,” and older adults.
- Mental Illness & Families of Faith – “This resource/study guide is designed to be used with clergy, members of congregations, family members and anyone desiring to learn more about mental illness and how to respond with compassion and care.
- Reclaim Your Soul Your Path to Healing – Highlights patterns and feelings that serve to increase our strength and enrich our lives. Through this process, we can start to reach for dreams that uplift our soul and help us achieve our fullest potential.
- Simply Sane: The Spirituality of Mental Health – A profound resource for psychology, spiritual direction, and pastoral integration. Renowned author May discusses the role of self-compassion and self-care in mental health. In this new edition, he also adds material on the intersection of psychology and spirituality, with expanded discussions of trust, solitude, and prayer.
- Spirituality and Mental Health – Spirituality and psychiatry – on the face of it, they do not seem to have much in common. But we are becoming increasingly aware of ways in which some aspects of spirituality can offer real benefits for mental health.
- Spirituality and Religion in Recovery from Mental Illness: New Directions for Mental Health Services – The authors describe innovative collaborations among faith communities, mental health organizations and agencies, and people with mental illness–and offer specific guidelines for developing such relationships more fully.
- Spirituality, Values and Mental Health: Jewels for the Journey – The book includes sections on context, research, education and training and good practice and also incorporates a range of personal perspectives. This book is an indispensable resource for mental health practitioners, carers, service users, chaplains, faith leaders, faith communities, as well as students and professionals working in the field of spirituality and mental health.
- The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth – Confronting and solving problems is a painful process, which most of us attempt to avoid. Drawing heavily upon his own professional experience, Dr. M. Scott Peck, a practicing psychiatrist, suggests ways in which confronting and resolving our problems can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding.
- The Role of Faith Communities in Suicide Prevention: A Guidebook for Faith Leader – The purpose of the guidebook is to prepare leaders of faith communities to prevent, intervene and respond to the tragedy of suicide.