Mental Health Awareness for Spiritual Companions 25 th and 26 th - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Mental Health Awareness for Spiritual Companions

25th and 26th March, Glastonbury Sarah Jane Williamson

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‘Greatest Briton’ poll, 2002, BBC2

• 1. Sir Winston Churchill

(Depression/‘Black Dog’)

• 2. Isambard Kingdom Brunel

(Heavy smoker)

• 3. Diana, Princess of Wales

(Eating disorders)

• 4. Charles Darwin

(Aspergers)

• 5. William Shakespeare

(MPD?)

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‘Only a man who could discern a gleam of hope in a hopeless situation was able to realistically assess the German threat and have the emotional reality to sustain us through 1940.’

Anthony Storr, Psychiatrist

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Learning outcomes

Spiritual Companions:

• Have a grounded and more realisGc understanding of spiritual

emergence

• gain a broader understanding of mental health and mental illness,

parGcularly from the mainstream point of view.

• have more confidence and competence both in companioning others

and communicaGng with mainstream mental health services.

• working publicly will understand about their responsibiliGes and

support available through the SC MH referral pathway.

For today

• SC Guidelines
• Limited Gme – training, not a process.
• IdenGfy further development
• ConfidenGality – self-responsibility
• We are available now and later

Saturday

• Spectrum of mental health acGvity
• The language of mental health and mental illness

Sunday

• What might we encounter as SCs?
• Brain development, risk and resilience
• Good care
• SC mental health referral pathway
• Silence, blessing, parGng

Mental Health Awareness Training Sunday

Spiritual emergence has grace and ease. If spiritual emergence happens too much or too fast it can be overwhelming.

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Comparative brain scans of 3 year olds

Source: internet search, unknown comparative study of impact of neglect on children from Romania

• rphanages, Ceausescu regime

Mental health care – what’s the problem?

• 33% people geUng no care
• 33% people geUng wrong care
• 33% people geUng right care

Source: Rethink Mental Illness response to Mental health Taskforce Five Year Forward View report 2016

Mental health care – what’s the problem?

Lack of parity with physical health despite ‘No health without mental health’ Department of Health, February 2011

• SGll no legally enshrined right to MH care
• No legal right to second opinion, emergency care or

therapeuGc support

• No system infrastructure or managed intelligence

network Report of Mental Health Taskforce 2016 recommendaGons to address these have now been accepted by NHS England and official bodies like CQC.

DetenGon under a secGon of the Mental Health Act: ‘When you or the people around you become frightened by your behaviour and their inability to support you so they bring in other people to control you.‘ Crisis recovery:

• Time
• Space
• Support - therapeuGc, pracGcal, social, spiritual