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标题：EXPLORING THE MENTAL HEALTH AND SPIRITUAL RECOVERY OF AN EXPERT-BY-EXPERIENCE: A DISCUSSION OF THE UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION SOCIAL WORKERS CAN MAKE TO SUPPORT THIS JOURNEY
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作者：Fox, Joanna ; Videmšek, Petra
期刊名称：Annual of Social work
印刷版ISSN：1846-5412
出版年度：2019
卷号：26
期号：2
页码：235-256
DOI：10.3935/ljsr.v26i2.266
出版社：Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Department of Social Work
摘要：
Increasingly, experts-by-experience want to explore their spiritual and religious needs as part of their mental health recovery; the contribution of social workers to the journey of spiritual recovery is under-developed. A first-person narrative about spiritual recovery experienced by the first author, an expert-by-experience and an academic, is presented to illuminate understanding of the elements supporting this journey.
The method builds on evidence that acknowledges the significance of understanding direct expertise-by-experience alongside a tradition of using creative writing to facilitate professional reflection. Both authors use iterative processes to analyse the narrative and propose a tentative model of spiritual recovery. It is then argued that social work, with its foundation in the bio-psycho-social model and its specific practice methods is well placed to support the spiritual recovery of people who experience mental distress. Moreover social workers have an ethical duty to promote respect for cultural diversity and to demonstrate cultural competency. We discuss how professionals can work effectively with service users to support their mental health and spiritual recovery. Ensuring that social work education is based on anti-discriminatory practice, and that social workers have access to training to develop knowledge about spirituality, will enhance their abilities to meet the spiritual needs of experts-by-experience in their recovery.
关键词：mental health; spirituality; first person narrative;recovery; social care