I. Competency in Self Awareness
Students become aware of themselves as minister.
• The art of self-reflection
• How personality and behavior impacts other people
• Major life events and relationships
• Awareness of feelings
• Attitudes, values, and assumptions in ministry
• Important themes within one’s religious tradition
• Theological understanding of experience
II. Interpersonal Awareness
Students learn how to utilize relationships in their ministry practice.
• Pastoral authority with peers, hospital staff, and supervisors
• Basic elements of group process
• Initiating consultation
• Support, confrontation and clarification within a peer group
• Offering and receiving critique
• Awareness of relational dynamics
III. Conceptual Ability
Students develop conceptual models for their practice of ministry.
• Hospital structure and social conditions related to health care ministry
• Concepts of spiritual care
• Spiritual assessment
• Dynamics of grief and loss
• Introduction to crisis ministry
• Overview of diverse religious traditions
• Framework for theological reflection
• Bio-ethical decision-making and advance care planning
• Basics of group process
• The Enneagram as an assessment tool
IV. Pastoral Functioning
Students learn basic pastoral care skills, drawing upon their religious heritage and the behavioral sciences.
• Active listening skills
• Initiation and closure in ministry relationships
• Spiritual care within an interdisciplinary team
• Professional ethics
• Confidentiality
• Use of ritual and liturgy
• Ministry of presence
• Guided meditation
V. Ministry Development and Management
Students learn the clinical method of education, methods for evaluating one’s ministry and identifying professional goals.
• The clinical method of learning
• Learning goals
• Pastoral strengths and weaknesses
• Clinical ministry management
• Self-evaluation as a tool for ministry development
The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc., (ACPE) accredits Providence Alaska Medical Center to offer Level I and Level II CPE curriculum.
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