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This book makes explicit that engaging with spirituality in its broadest sense is an essential aspect of socially just social work practice. Gardner connects shared understandings of spiritual/religious traditions, critically reflective social work, First Nations relational world views, green and relational approaches.

This book makes explicit that engaging with spirituality in its broadest sense is an essential aspect of socially just social work practice. Gardner connects shared understandings of spiritual/religious traditions, critically reflective social work, First Nations relational world views, green and relational approaches.

A powerful and revealing account of how the Church of England failed to come to terms with the child abuse scandal within its own ranks.

Searching for meaning, truth or just to understand yourself better - then this is for you!

Although originally daunted at being asked to present the 2020 James Backhouse Lecture to Australian Friends, Fiona Gardner came to find that the opportunity encouraged her to reflect more deeply on her own journey and what might usefully be shared with others. For over twenty years, Fiona has participated in facilitating the Meeting for Learning (a year-long program for spiritual nurture, designed to explore Spirit and Quaker ways), and lives...

Field Education: Creating Successful Placements introduces students to the experiences of those involved in social work field education placements. The book fosters social work field education placements as successful learning experiences by identifying key processes and frameworks, and how these can be used in practice.

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A guide to the research skills and critical thinking required to complete a research project for professional learning courses in counselling and psychotherapy.

Working with Human Service Organisations 2nd edition aims to equip potential and current workers within human service organisations with the range of tools they need to think critically and work effectively within their employing agency.

A guide to the research skills and critical thinking required to complete a research project for professional learning courses in counselling and psychotherapy.

In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is "the only mind worth having" and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. She demonstrates how Merton's belief and Jesus's command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's command requires a great leap of the imaginati...

Spiritual insight and direction from Merton's personal correspondence.

In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is "the only mind worth having" and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. She demonstrates how Merton's belief and Jesus's command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's command requires a great leap of the imaginati...

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Human service professionals currently wrestle with the gradually increasing expectation to work with spirituality often without feeling capable of undertaking such practice. Many experiences raise a number of issues for both professionals and students: what do we mean by spiritual? How does this relate to religion? How do we work with the spiritual in ways that recognise and value difference? What are the limits to spiritual tolerance, if any?...

Journeying Home is intended for those interested in their own inner journey - especially for those who feel they have lost their way or who feel trapped by their past and separated from God. Drawing on a rich blend of biblical and literary narritives, case studies and practical suggestions, Fiono Gardner offers an invitation to make changes, to be open to ways of healing and to make a choice between staying partly living in the past, to be mor...

Self-harm is worryingly common in young women, and is often used as a way of easing emotional suffering. Self-Harm: A Psychotherapeutic Approach explores the issues involved from the perspective of a psychoanalytical psychotherapist. Fiona Gardner examines these issues through extensive clinical material and an analysis of the social and cultural influences behind self-harm. This book will be of interest to all those working with those who are...