Challenges to welcoming people with mental illnesses into faith communities.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1192/bjp.2020.83.
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Abstract
Faith communities are important to the psychiatric care of people with mental illness. I distinguish the effects of two principles of becoming welcoming communities: compassion, in which the community accommodates members with mental illnesses so they are fully included, and dignity, which rests on the essential worth of everyone.
Medical subject headings
- Empathy
- Mental Disorders
- Religion
- Social Stigma
- Social Support