EP43: Faith-Based and Secular Meditation

NASW Social Work Talks Podcast

Raymond Monsour Scurfield

Raymond Monsour Scurfield, DSW, LCSW, ACSW, is author of Faith-Based and Secular Meditation: Everyday and Posttraumatic Applications (NASW Press, 2019).

This NASW 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is professor emeritus of social work at The University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast. He's authored books and articles on the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in combat veterans and disaster survivors.

Published Dec. 17, 2019


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Faith-Based and Secular Meditation: Everyday and Posttraumatic Applications by Raymond Monsour Scurfield

Faith-Based and Secular Meditation

For faith-based meditators... meditation and prayer can converse and travel together as complementary and mutually enhancing companions.

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