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Mental Health Support in Faith Communities: A Comprehensive Guide

Explore different philosophical and theological views on mental illness. Learn about societal attitudes and stigma and discover outreach approaches and online resources for mental health ministries in congregations.

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Mental Health Support in Faith Communities: A Comprehensive Guide

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  1. Reaching Out to Congregations and Faith Communities Part IV Looking Ahead and Following Up

  2. Local Interfaith Advisory Groupsand Collaborative Networks

  3. Different Views

  4. PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWSOF MENTAL ILLNESS

  5. THEOLOGICAL VIEWS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS • A result of • Sin or moral failure • Lack of faith • God’s judgment • Demon possession • Psychiatrists are humanistic or atheistic

  6. SOCIETAL ATTITUDES & STIGMA

  7. Hang in there!

  8. Multiple Outreach Approaches

  9. Follow Up with On-line Resources • www.NAMI.org • www.mentalhealthamerica.net • www.nimh.nih.gov – National Institute of Mental Health • www.congregationalresrouces.org/mental-health-ministry-resources • www.Pathways2Promise.org • www.mentalhealthministries.net

  10. Access On-line Resourceswww.nami.org/namifaithnet

  11. Congregational Resource Guide www.Congregationalresources.org/mental-health- ministry-resources Over 100 Annotated Printed, audio-visual, and web-based resources

  12. Mental Health Ministries For creating caring congregations: www.mentalhealthministries.net Education Commitment Welcome Support Advocacy

  13. PATHWAYS TO PROMISEwww.pathways2promise.org A Mental Health Handbook; A Toolkit for Congregations

  14. Creating Caring Congregations Across America

  15. Envisioning the Future

  16. You Can Make a Difference If we ignore … cries for help, we will be continuing to participate in the anguish from which those cries for help come.  A problem of this magnitude will not go away.  Because it will not go away, and because of our spiritual commitments, we are compelled to take action.−First Lady Rosalynn Carter

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