Challenges to welcoming people with mental illnesses into faith communities.

Challenges to welcoming people with mental illnesses into faith communities.
Br J Psychiatry. 2020 Apr 30;:1-2
Authors: Corrigan PW
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.
PMID: 32349817 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The British Journal of Psychiatry for Mental Science - May 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Br J Psychiatry Source Type: research