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Spiritual Healing With Children With Special Needs
Bob Woodward, a respected member of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers, and a senior co-worker at the Sheiling School, a Camphill Centre, draws on the practice both as a healer and curative educator in order to share key concepts of both areas of experience with the reader. Examples of individual healing sessions with children with a variety of special needs demonstrate the part that spiritual healing can play in calming emotional disturbance, and helping to restore harmony to body, soul and a marked improvement in the ability to relate to both peers and adults was noticed by carers and teacher.' - The Christian Parapsychologist Spiritual Healing with Children with Special Needs gives a fascinating account of individual healing sessions with children with complex special needs and moderate to severe learning difficulties. Drawing on his experience as a qualified spiritual healer and senior co-worker at The Sheiling School, a Camphill Centre, Bob Woodward shows how spiritual healing can help children with special needs to achieve peace and relaxation. From his perspective as both spiritual healer and curative educator, the author introduces the key concepts of both subject areas to the reader and explains how the two disciplines can be combined and applied, providing case examples of healing sessions with children with a range of special needs, including autism, epilepsy and emotional and behavioural difficulties. The author demonstrates the benefits of spiritual healing for these children as a natural, non-invasive, holistic approach that restores balance and harmony to body, soul and spirit. This unique book will be of interest to parents and professionals involved with special needs children, as well as practitioners of and those interested in spiritual healing.
160 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2007
About the author
Bob Woodward
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Dr. Bob Woodward was born in 1947 in Gloucester, UK. Having studied at state and Steiner schools, he became a coworker at the Sheiling School in Thornbury, a center of the Camphill Community, based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. He remained in the Camphill Movement, living with and teaching children with special educational needs, for some forty years before retiring in 2012. He took a special interest in understanding autism in children and young people. At the age of 46, Bob received an MEd degree from Bristol University, followed by an MPhil at the age of 50, and a PhD from the University of the West of England at the age of 64. As well as being a qualified educator, he is a spiritual healer and the author of several books. He has been married for forty-two years and has five grown children and many grandchildren.
Dr. Bob Woodward was born in 1947 in Gloucester, UK. Having studied at state and Steiner schools, he became a coworker at the Sheiling School in Thornbury, a center of the Camphill Community, based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. He remained in the Camphill Movement, living with and teaching children with special educational needs, for some forty years before retiring in 2012. He took a special interest in understanding autism in children and young people. At the age of 46, Bob received an MEd degree from Bristol University, followed by an MPhil at the age of 50, and a PhD from the University of the West of England at the age of 64. As well as being a qualified educator, he is a spiritual healer and the author of several books. He has been married for forty-two years and has five grown children and many grandchildren.
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April 21, 2021
I realized pretty quickly in that this book referred to a very specific intervention called “spiritual healing”-a reiki-like practice that is utilized by certified users in the UK-and was not using that phrase as a catch-all for spiritual care. Indeed, as a pediatric chaplain I would not encourage CPE students to read this text.
The text is mostly a collection of paragraph long notes about a collection of children. It fails to demonstrate outcomes of use or how the practice was integrated into the care receive.
In addition, some of the language and approach to children who have autism seemed long-outdated. I was uncomfortable with the author’s sometime disregard for consent.
Lastly, as we are now in a world where medical notes are readily accessible to patients-these notes are poorly written, include unacceptable comments concerning patient physical features, and makes assumptions that are beyond this practitioners scope of care. I would be appalled if I read one of these notes about my own child.
Sorry, I tried to be gracious and was very disappointed with this text.
The spiritual care needs of all children is widely overlooked—especially those needs of children who live with special needs. I’m sad this book didn’t better address this.
The text is mostly a collection of paragraph long notes about a collection of children. It fails to demonstrate outcomes of use or how the practice was integrated into the care receive.
In addition, some of the language and approach to children who have autism seemed long-outdated. I was uncomfortable with the author’s sometime disregard for consent.
Lastly, as we are now in a world where medical notes are readily accessible to patients-these notes are poorly written, include unacceptable comments concerning patient physical features, and makes assumptions that are beyond this practitioners scope of care. I would be appalled if I read one of these notes about my own child.
Sorry, I tried to be gracious and was very disappointed with this text.
The spiritual care needs of all children is widely overlooked—especially those needs of children who live with special needs. I’m sad this book didn’t better address this.
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