2024 has been another remarkable year for the Spirituality and Diversity discussions (S&D discussions) conducted by VTMH in partnership with Spiritual Health Association (SHA).
We have conducted the following, thought-provoking sessions:
13 February 2024 “Is this a spiritual emergence or a mental health crisis?”
12 March 2024 “Medicate or contemplate? The time constraints of the system”
9 April 2024 “Holding tension between different perceptions of reality.“
14 May 2024 “Do my spiritual beliefs matter in providing mental health care?”
11 June 2024 “Moral stress – a part of your working landscape?”
20 August 2024 “‘Psychiatry and God, why are they such strange bedfellows?”
Following these sessions, one participant spoke of the benefit of explicitly enquiring about a consumer’s spirituality (even if not using that word), and the need to be non-judgmental when doing so. Another participant commented that there was no contradiction between doing both medical and spiritual healing if they were both helpful.
We will shortly advertise more discussions that will occur in the second half of the year. We look forward to seeing you at these sessions!