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Dr Sarah Eagger is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the
Department of Psychological Medicine, Imperial College and
consultant psychiatrist for Older Adults in North London.She
is on the executive and was chair (’05-’09) of the Spirituality and
Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists. She also chairs the Spirituality and Faith Committee
in her mental health trust and is a trustee and now co-chair of the
National Forum for Spirituality and Mental Health. Her
particular interests include training doctors in assessing patients’
spiritual needs. She is the co-ordinating editor of a facilitators’
manual for healthcare professionals, Values in healthcare: a
spiritual approach published in 2004. Dr Eagger is especially
interested in the spiritual aspect of the holistic model, has
practised and taught meditation in various NHS settings for many
years. She has also spoken on aspects of consciousness and
spirituality at national and international conferences.
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Archdeacon Arthur Hawes retired as Archdeacon of Lincoln in 2008.
Until 1995 he was a parish priest and hospital chaplain working in
Worcestershire and Norfolk. He studied at Chichester
Theological College, Birmingham University and the University of
East Anglia. He has a particular interest in mental health
which has been part of his ministry for more than 37 years. He
was a Mental Health Act Commissioner from 1986 to 1995 and chaired
the East Midlands Regional Development Centre of CSIP from 2003 to
2005. He was a member of the NHS Confederation Mental Health
Policy Committee and currently is co-chair of the National
Spirituality and Mental Health Forum. He is also chair of the Church
of England Mental Health Advisory Committee and is a Training
Consultant for Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust.
He has been married to Melanie (a Barts nurse) for 40 years and they
have 2 grandchildren whom they care for each fortnight. Arthur
enjoys the theatre, cinema, music, and painting and delights in golf
courses. He belongs to a golf club in SW France. Throughout his
ministry he has developed an interest in Medieval art and
architecture and often lectures on the subject.
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I am an NHS mental health chaplain based in Canterbury . I have been
in East Kent since 2003. I was ordained in 1980, in Lichfield
Cathedral, after training in Nottingham . For the majority of my
time I have combined Anglican parish life with either health or
educational chaplaincy work, firstly in the West Midlands and later
in Somerset . To support my present role, I have taken an MSc course
in Public Health and Health Promotion. My earlier studies have been
in agriculture, theology and secondary religious education.
Personally, music and particularly singing are important to me. I am
presently the honorary curate in a group of parishes near Margate .
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I am an academic psychologist, also involved in community mental
health service provision. My academic research includes many
projects on spirituality and religion in relation to mental health
in different cultural groups, and I have published many research
articles and several books on this. In the community I am a trustee
for several mental health charities, and a council member for my
local NHS Mental Health Trust. The Forum aims to improve the
recognition of spiritual factors in mental health service provision,
and to support training in this area, with the cooperation of the
UK’s diverse religious groups. I feel honoured to be associated with
this.
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My first encounter with mental
illness was when a very close friend of mine suffered a breakdown
and was admitted to a mental unit of a hospital.Before I was able
to provide the emotional support my friend and her family needed, I
first had to reconcile this for myself i.e. deal with my own
misperceptions about mental ill-health and the stigma that society
imposes on this growing illness. But mental illness is just that –
AN ILLNESS, like any other which needs treatment, care, love,
compassion, understanding and to help those in need to accept, deal
with and if possible to overcome the illness. Having understood the
shortage of support mechanisms in today’s society, I made a
conscious decision to further understand and learn about mental
illness which resulted in my becoming a MHFA (Mental Health First
Aid) instructor. My sole objective is to raise awareness and
encourage empathy with the sufferers within my community.
The Forum provides a platform for different faith communities to
come together and discuss the commonalities in challenges faced by
different segments of society and how faith becomes an anchor both
to overcome the bias attached to the illness and to provide moral
underpinnings for the care and wellbeing of the mentally ill.
I would like to think that the work of the Forum will spread the
message of hope and healing to the individuals, families and
communities who need support and comfort whilst dealing with
different aspects of mental ill-health.
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Peter Gilbert is Professor of Social Work and Spirituality at
Staffordshire University, and Visiting Professor with both
Birmingham and Solihull NHS Foundation Trust and the University of
Worcester. Peter was the NIMHE Project Lead on Spirituality from
its inception to 31st March, 2009, and now works to the
National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum. He has recently
been appointed Chair of the National Development Team for Inclusion.
A former Director of Social Services for Worcestershire, Peter is a
registered Social Worker with 13 years of direct practice. Between
2003 and 2006 he was NIMHE/SCIE Fellow in Social Care with
Professor Nick Gould, and has also been Social Care Advisor to the
Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health..
Peter’s first career was in the Army. He was principal social worker
in one of the old institutions; managed services for people with
Learning Disabilities in LB. Merton, and people with Mental Health
needs in Kent in the late 80s and early 90s; and was very involved
in partnership working and service user and carer involvement in
both Staffordshire as Director of Operations, and Worcestershire as
Director. In the 1980s he specialised in Learning Disability and
Mental Health.
Having experienced an episode of depression in 2000/1 Peter is very
committed to an holistic and person-centred approach.
Peter is signed up to ensuring the integration of theory with
practice. He is author of ‘Leadership: Being Effective and
Remaining Human (2005) and co-edited: Spirituality, Values and
Mental Health: Jewels for the Journey,November, 2007. Having
recently published guidelines for CSIP/NIMHE on Spirituality for
frontline staff he is currently working with colleagues on a
leadership and personalisation paper for SCIE.
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