Left-wing views, right-wing views and pastoral work

Dave Burke  |  Comment
Date posted:  1 Oct 2022
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Left-wing views, right-wing views and pastoral work

This diagram claims to show the position of UK political parties at the last General Election

Every morning I scan the news online and spend half an hour reading the articles that fit my interests.

In the last couple of weeks two have stood out as relevant to pastoral care. Let me describe them for you.

The first is a puff for a book by psychologist, Gillian Bridge. The headline is: ‘Our fixation with feelings has created a damaged generation’(1). Bridge discusses the mental health of young people; a million prescriptions for antidepressants are being written for teenagers each year. She provides an explanation: ‘This focus on me, myself and I is the problem … it’s taking people who are vulnerable to begin with and asking them to focus inwards’.

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