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Troubled minds : mental illness and the church's mission / Amy Simpson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsityPress, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780830884322
  • 0830884327
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Troubled mindsDDC classification:
  • 261.8/322 23
LOC classification:
  • BV4461 .S56 2013
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
A family story -- Mental illness is mainstream -- Suffering people -- Coping -- Church life -- Ministry life -- Persistent stigma -- What churches can do -- What God does -- Resources for ministry to people affected by mental illness.
Summary: The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Her.meneutics)Winner of a 2013 Leadership Journal Book Award (""Our Very Short List"" in ""The Leader's Outer Life"" category)Mental illness is the sort of thing we don't like to talk about. It doesn't reduce nicely to simple solutions and happy outcomes. So instead, too often we reduce people who are mentally ill to caricatures and ghosts, and simply pretend they don't exist. They do exist, however-statistics suggest that one in four people suffer from some kind of mental illness. And then there's their friends and family members, who be.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)577766

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221).

A family story -- Mental illness is mainstream -- Suffering people -- Coping -- Church life -- Ministry life -- Persistent stigma -- What churches can do -- What God does -- Resources for ministry to people affected by mental illness.

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The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Her.meneutics)Winner of a 2013 Leadership Journal Book Award (""Our Very Short List"" in ""The Leader's Outer Life"" category)Mental illness is the sort of thing we don't like to talk about. It doesn't reduce nicely to simple solutions and happy outcomes. So instead, too often we reduce people who are mentally ill to caricatures and ghosts, and simply pretend they don't exist. They do exist, however-statistics suggest that one in four people suffer from some kind of mental illness. And then there's their friends and family members, who be.