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Clinical Pastoral Education

This professional, process oriented education experience is an opportunity to revitalize one's ministry skills while also caring for one's self. Each student develops an individual learning covenant.

Objectives for Clinical Pastoral Education

Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) includes Pastoral Reflection, Pastoral Formation, and Pastoral Competence. Pastoral Specialization may be offered as an option in some centers. The objectives of Level I CPE are:

Pastoral Formation

  • To develop students’ awareness of themselves as ministers and of the ways their ministry affects other persons.
  • To develop students’ awareness of how their attitudes, values, assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses affect their pastoral care.
  • To develop students’ ability to engage and apply the support, confrontation and clarification of the peer group for the integration of personal attributes and pastoral functioning.


Pastoral Competence

  • To develop students’ awareness and understanding of how persons, social conditions, systems, and structures affect their lives and the lives of others and how to address effectively these issues through their ministry.
  • To develop students’ skills in providing intensive and extensive pastoral care and counseling to persons.
  • To develop students’ ability to make effective use of their religious/spiritual heritage, theological understanding, and knowledge of the behavioral sciences in their pastoral care of persons and groups.
  • To teach students the pastoral role in professional relationships and how to work effectively as a pastoral member of a multidisciplinary team.
  • To develop students’ capacity to use one’s pastoral and prophetic perspectives in preaching, teaching, leadership, management, pastoral care, and pastoral counseling

Pastoral Relflection

  • To develop students’ understanding and ability to apply the clinical method of learning.
  • To develop students’ ability to use both individual and group supervision for personal and professional growth, including the capacity to evaluate one’s ministry.

From The Standards of ACPE 2005

Current Schedule

• Summer CPE – May 29 to August 3, 2007

• Extended CPE – September 27 to March 27, 2007

The Supervisors

Reverend Frederic Koning

- Anticipated arrival at Pine Rest, witner 2010
- Interim Director of Pastorial Services
  Rev. Janet Carter, 616-281-6363 ext. 2117
 
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For additional information and to receive an application blank, please contact Julia Smilde at:
Phone: 616-281-6363 x2566
E-mail: julia.smilde@pinerest.org