Clinical Pastoral Education

2017-12-22T08:53:00.004-08:00

Master Fezziwig Knew How to Celebrate Employees

Borne there by the Spirit of Christmas-Past the scene opens: It is Christmas once more and Scrooge is standing outside the warehouse where once he was an apprentice. They go inside and Scrooge is delighted to find his former boss – Mr Fezziwig.

Mr Fezziwig is instructing a young Scrooge and his fellow apprentice, Dick, to ready the premises for their annual Christmas party.

The scene fills as in come a fiddler, Mrs Fezziwig, all the other Fezziwigs together with all the employees.

They enjoy music and dancing and when finally the joyous evening comes to a close Scrooge is forced to reflect on his own treatment as an employer regarding his staff.

“When the clock struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up. Mr and Mrs Fezziwig took their stations, one on either side of the door, and shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished him or her a Merry Christmas. When everybody had retired but the two apprentices, they did the same to them; and thus the cheerful voices died away, and the lads were left to their beds.

During the whole of this time, Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits. His heart and soul were in the scene and with his former self. He remembered everything and enjoyed everything. It was not until now, when the bright faces of his former self and Dick were turned from them, that he remembered the Ghost, and became conscious that it was looking full upon him, while the light upon its head burnt very clear.

‘A small matter,’ said the Ghost, ‘to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.’

‘Small!’ echoed Scrooge.

The Spirit signed to him to listen to the two apprentices, who were pouring out their hearts in praise of Fezziwig. And when Scrooge had done so, the Spirit said:

‘Why! Is it not? He’s spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps. Is that so much that he deserves this praise?’

‘It isn’t that,’ said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. ‘It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.’

He felt the Spirit’s glance, and stopped.

‘What’s the matter?’ asked the Ghost.

‘Nothing particular,’ said Scrooge.

‘Something, I think?’ the Ghost insisted.

‘No,’ said Scrooge, ‘No. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk, Bob Cratchit, just now! That’s all.”

In contrast to Fezziwig, who treated his employees with generosity and kindness, Scrooge regarded his employee with a particular mean-spiritedness of the cold hearted businessmen that he was. For Scrooge it was always profit over people and the only thing that mattered in his personal and professional life was his bottom line. Scrooge was hard on himself and, therefore, hard on others. It’s a general rule of thumb that one cannot treat others differently than one treats one’s Self. Scrooge was one who lived on the very edge of his own heart. He was a stingy man, a perfect misanthrope and it cost him greatly in terms of his relationships. In contrast, to Scrooge, Fezziwig symbolizes all that Scrooge is not. Fezziwig was lavishly generous and his great generosity was life giving and in a manner that liberated the very spirit of those who worked for him. Fezziwig, it might be argued, fostered a corporate structure of significance in which those on the lowest rung of the business ladder were celebrated together with those at the very top and made to feel significant. Generosity was a characteristic of Fezziwig it was not something he tagged on for profit, rather, it part of the very fabric of his being and lived out in his business dealings. As Dale Partridge has said "When generosity is who you are rather than something you do, it will seep out of your organization's pores Naturally." and that's the bottom line that even Scrooge could accept.

2016-10-25T10:58:00.001-07:00

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Chaplaincy Alive! podcast: A discussion with Kenneth Blank, a responding chaplain to the Oklahoma City Bombing

Twenty years ago, a truck bomb went off outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds. CPSP Chaplain Kenneth Blank talks with Chaplaincy Alive! podcast host, Susan McDougal, about the day of the bombing and the days following that historic event, and discusses how it impacted his life, and the lives of his fellow-chaplains, and the lives of the people living in Oklahoma City.

In his interview with Susan McDougall, Ken Blank mentions a paper he wrote, "Pastoral Care and Response to Disaster - The Oklahoma City Experience", and readers can download the paper by clicking HERE

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2016-07-07T13:58:00.000-07:00

At End of Life, Family Often Too Optimistic on Survival

Educating a family about a poor prognosis has always been difficult. Now a study appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals the extent of misunderstanding when patients and physicians both try predict the chance of a loved one's survival. In this 150-second analysis, MedPage Today clinical reviewer F. Perry Wilson MD, MSCE, breaks down the data.

Increasing Trend to Secularize Chaplaincy

2016-04-26T10:43:00.002-07:00

There has been an increasing trend in the pastoral care movement to move away from chaplaincy and pastoral care in favor of promoting and providing "spiritual care." Many hospital departments have changed their names to reflect this shift in philosophy and practice.

Spirituality circumvents religion and promotes chaplaincy as a generic practice. Religions are messy. They have rules, doctrines, beliefs, ethics---some of which are flawed to be sure. But religions usually stand for something. Spirituality is an amorphous thing, an oblong blur, with implications of cosmic connection, but with no price tag---no demands no dogmas, and no ethics. Not even a dogma demanding justice and mercy. The only perceptible doctrine promoted by the spirituality movement is that people should feel good about themselves.

At its best the clinical pastoral movement teaches religious professionals to be available to everyone. It also teaches them to be critical of all religion---but dismissive of none. Religion has caused considerable mischief throughout history. But religion at its best calls forth some of the noblest behavior of which human beings are capable.

The clinical pastoral movement has been correct to be critical of each and every specific religious practice; within the limits of mutual respect and decorum. At the same time, however, it must take
a permissive posture toward the various idiosyncratic manifestation of religion, giving them the benefit of the doubt. That is the basis on which the clinical pastoral movement began in the early 20th century. The movement did not attempt to create a new religion, particularly one that by implication would be superior to all the other "flawed religions" of the world. The promotion of spirituality results in diminishing the role of the hospital chaplain as a religious professional in favor of that of a generic approach which in the end a social worker or nurse can provide.

The 13th Conference of the European Council for Pastoral Care and Counselling

2016-04-18T10:55:00.000-07:00

Feeling Felt – Challenges for Pastoral Care and Counselling

The 13th Conference of the European Council for Pastoral Care and Counselling

It all begins with a look. The paintings by the artist Maria Wolfram challenge the way we look at the world surrounding us. Those faces seem to look back at us, asking: What do you see when you look at me? Can you feel my reality, or are you looking right through me, perceiving only what you wish to see, receiving only what fits in your picture?

Feeling felt – two simple words that capture the essence of empathic attunement, which is at the core of all encountering in pastoral care and counselling.

How do we approach today’s evermore complex and challenging realities, whose faces do we recognize and encounter? And where do we find strength in our effort to accompany suffering individuals and communities under pressure? What is the essence of being a pastoral caregiver for our present time in the perspective of feeling felt?

These questions guide the reflection on the theme of Feeling Felt – Challenges for Pastoral Care and Counselling. The methodological keys to the theme of the conference come from different fields of research, social analysis and personal experience.

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 13^th Conference of the European Council for Pastoral Care and Counselling which will be held on the 23^rd-28^th of August in 2017 at the Institute for Advanced Training of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland in Järvenpää, Finland.

Language of the conference is English.

We are already working hard with conference arrangements. Please notice that the first draft of the program has now published.

Please follow our website and our Facebook page, we will publish more about program and schedule soon! See you in Järvenpää!

Call for workshops and papers!

The organizers of the 13th ECPCC conference cordially invite you to submit an abstract for a workshop or paper to be presented at European conference of the European Council for Pastoral Care and Counselling in Järvenpää, Finland 2017. The deadline for submitting an abstract is August 30th 2016.

The abstract submission form is now open! (Abstract submission form link here).

Asbury Theological Seminary: How to Receive Credit for CPE Training

2016-02-22T14:37:00.000-08:00

CLINICAL PASTORAL EDUCATION

Asbury Theological Seminary

Find a certified ACPE (Association for Clinical Pastoral Education) or CPSP (College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy) training site. ACPE website has a list of certified training sites by states. CPSP website has a list of certified training sites. (NOTE: Your denominational body usually defines which of the above training programs they prefer.) See ACPE or CPSP webpage for more information on each respective program.

Apply directly to the ACPE or CPSP sites you are interested in training. Both ACPE and CPSP website have application forms you can access. Your training site may also provide you with the application as well.

ACPE and CPSP training sites may require you to pay a tuition fee to train with them. You are responsible for paying for your CPE training. The seminary will reimburse you up to $600.00 of your training site tuition fee (only) after you complete your CPE training. More on this below.

Also note that some training sites offer stipends to train with them. Each training site is different in what it can offer so be informed of the financial cost (or benefits!).

Once you are accepted to an ACPE or CPSP site, you can sign up to receive seminary credit for your training.

Link: Asbury Theological Seminary

The Founding of the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

2016-02-22T11:50:00.002-08:00

The College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy CPSP is an international, theologically based covenant community.

CPSP was formed out of the memories of our own experience in clinical training. It was not formed around the corporate bureaucratic model, that by its very nature smothers criticism with public relations and undermines collegiality by promoting patterns of domination and submission. We remembered the redemptive process of our own clinical training, an experience that was marked by deep criticism and deep respect and care, an experience that we would never demean or trivialize by calling it skill training. We experienced our own clinical pastoral process as transformative. We sought in creating CPSP to rekindle the transformative process that seemed to be diminishing in our professional lives. We constructed the Chapter model out of our memories of the clinical training group as the best hope for fostering continuing transformation, individually and corporately.

Learn more about CPSP:
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Time to Call the Hospital Chaplain

2016-02-22T11:18:00.001-08:00

Sometime ago Don Berwick, MD spoke about 20 improvements that doctors could make in the end of life care of their patients that begins in a simple conversation. Berwick recommended the following considerations as his top three suggestions:

Ask yourself as you see patients, "Would I be surprised if this patient died in the next few months?" For those "sick enough to die," prioritize the patient's concerns - often symptom relief, family support, continuity, advance planning, or spirituality.
To eliminate anxiety and fear, chronically ill patients must understand what is likely to happen. When you see a patient who is "sick enough to die" - tell the patient, and start counseling and planning around that possibility.
To understand your patients, ask (1) "What do you hope for, as you live with this condition,"(a) "What do you fear?," (b) It is usually hard to know when death is close. If you were to die soon, what would be left undone in your life?," and (4) "How are things going for you and your family?" Document and arrange care to meet each patient's priorities.

All too often the task of finishing the business of living gets left undone because the end of life conversation has never taken place for whatever reason. A referral to the Clinical Chaplain would of course be an appropriate action in the hospital setting.

Clinical Pastoral Training: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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Clinical Pastoral Education - An Historical Perspective:

2016-02-22T10:59:00.002-08:00

Clinical Pastoral Education - An Historical Perspective:

In the 1920’s theological education began to be profoundly reshaped by the medical model of education which itself was being transformed in response to the renowned Flexner Report of 1910.

Theological education, which was at that point in history almost entirely academic, theoretical, and forensic began to change just as medical education was changing. Pastors began using the mentorship approach to learning “at the bedside” in contact with living persons and their problems.

Thus, began the art and science of Clinical Pastoral Training or Education, the disciplined examination of specific cases of pastoral care and counseling, and the application of the clinical method to the work of ministry.

Clinical Pastoral Education has come to be known as the study of persons and their problems of relating and structures of meaning. This training has become accepted as a formative component in the preparation of persons for religious ministry.

Anton Boisen (1876-1965) was the individual who most provided the initial impetus toward making this change in theological education. Motivated by the urgency to understand his own psychotic episodes and their religious and developmental implications, Boisen inaugurated and institutionalized this new component in theological education known as Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE).

At first CPE attracted only a few selected individuals, most of whom sought Boisen because of his and their dissatisfaction with normative theological education. Subsequently, CPE has burgeoned to such an extent that many theological schools require an introductory unit as a prerequisite for graduation.

Clinical Pastoral Education in General:

Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) programs provide an opportunity for ministers, seminarians and lay people to develop pastoral competency within a particular pastoral setting (usually a hospital, parish, hospice, retirement home, etc.), and seeks to foster the pastors own self-awareness as a pastoral care-giver.

The CPE approach to training is based upon an "action-reflection" model of learning. Pastoral interns function as ecumenical chaplains providing pastoral care on assigned areas and use their experience in pastoral encounters as a basis for their learning.

While seminary settings provide an academic environment for the study of pastoral theology in contrast the CPE center provides the clinical basis for learning.

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Clinical Pastoral Training University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

"I am CPSP"

2016-02-22T10:33:00.002-08:00

The College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

2016-02-22T10:28:00.001-08:00

The College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

Committed to Continuing Accountability, Standards of Excellence, and Diversity of Opportunity

The College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy promotes competency and accountability through an ongoing process of peer review which is a central aspect of our covenant relationship and Chapter life. CPSP is unique among the national pastoral training and certifying organizations in that it is a covenant community. Within Chapter life, CPSP members covenant together to being held mutually responsible to one another for their ongoing professional development and direction. Credential’s held by CPSP members are renewed annually and contingent upon satisfactory participation in Chapter life and the Chapter's recommendation for renewal. CPSP understands its task to be first and foremost theological and that ongoing peer review is centered in the CPSP covenant. Believing that life is best lived by grace, the CPSP community places a premium on the significance of relationships between its members.

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Clinical Pastoral Education-University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

2015-11-19T07:29:00.002-08:00

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Clinical Pastoral Education training program focuses on the development of self-awareness, formation of pastoral identity, professional pastoral functioning, and the ability to address issues from a competent clinical and pastoral perspective.

The CPE residency program is designed for the ordained person with a seminary degree and at least one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education. Residency stipend: $26,195 plus medical benefits.

On occasion, a lay person may qualify for admission. CPE residents and interns serve as ecumenical chaplains, under supervision, to assigned areas throughout the UAMS Medical Center and clinics. The setting provides a rich base for clinical experience and opportunities for continued personal, professional and pastoral development.

The Part-time Extended Unit of CPE is designed for busy individuals who wish to complete CPE training on over an extended period of time on a part-time basis. This is not a stipended position.

The UAMS Clinical Pastoral Training programs follow the standards set by the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy (CPSP), the accrediting organization.

A typical unit of CPE requires a minimum of 400 hours of supervised ministry in a clinical setting.

Both CPE training opportunities carry on call responsibilities.

For more information please call (501) 686 6217 follow the following link:

UAMS CPE

George Hankins Hull
Director of Pastoral Care &
Clinical Pastoral Education Programs
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
4301 W. Markham St. #561,
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 686-6888

Clinical Pastoral Education University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

2015-05-04T09:15:00.000-07:00

UAMS Clinical Pastoral Training Program

Summer 2014 CPE Resident and Internsaption

The CPE program at UAMS Medical Center has a history that extends over thirty years. Chaplain interns and residents serve as hospital chaplains and provide pastoral care and counseling to inpatients, families and hospital staff. Each chaplain in training is assigned to a number of floors and units, providing an opportunity for the trainee to experience the full range of care settings in a modern medical facility. The trainees are required to provide 24 hours on-call coverage for the Medical Center. In addition, each trainee is required to present case studies, attend didactic seminars, provide written reflections upon reading reviews, meet with their supervisors for individual supervision sessions, conduct a weekly ecumenical worship service and take part in group relations seminars.

CPE at UAMS focuses on the development of personal and pastoral identity and the growth of professional competence as a minister. Specific objectives of CPE are:

To become aware of one's self as a minister and of the ways one's ministry affects people.
To become a competent pastor of people and groups in various life situations and crisis circumstances and to develop the maturity to provide intensive and extensive pastoral care and counseling.
To utilize the clinical method of learning.
To utilize the support, confrontation, and clarification of the peer group for the integration of personal attributes and pastoral functioning.
To become competent in self-evaluation and in utilizing supervision and consultation to evaluate one's pastoral practice.
To develop the ability to make optimum use of one's religious heritage, theological understanding, and knowledge of behavioral sciences in pastoral ministry to people and groups.
To acquire self-knowledge to a degree that permits pastoral care to be offered within the strengths and limitations of one's own person.
To develop the ability to work as a pastoral member of an interdisciplinary team.
To develop the capacity to utilize one's pastoral perspective and competence in a variety of functions such as preaching, teaching and administration, as well as pastoral care and counseling.
To become aware of how one's attitudes, values and assumptions affect one's ministry.
To understand the theological issues arising from experience and to utilize theology and the behavioral sciences to understand the human condition.

Accreditation

The Clinical Pastoral Education Program at UAMS Medical Center is accredited by the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy (CPSP) as an international, theologically based covenant community, offering accreditation and certification to individuals and programs that meet standards of expertise in pastoral counseling, pastoral supervision and psychotherapy.

CPSP confers Diplomate, Pastoral Counselor, Board-Certified Clinical Chaplain and Board-Certified Associate Clinical Chaplain credentials to individuals who demonstrate competence, meet its standards, aspire to its principles and commit to its discipline.

For more information Visit the following link: UAMS Clinical Pastoral Education Training Program

Charles R. Hicks Named CPSP's Administrator

2015-05-04T09:08:00.002-07:00

The College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy (CPSP) is delighted to announce the appointment of Charles R. Hicks as its new Administrator. 'Administrator' is equivalent of what would be referred to in the corporate world as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Charles will also continue serving as our Legal Counsel. He will oversee and work closely with Krista Argiropolis, our Administrative Coordinator.

Charles is an attorney and former Arkansas Department of Human Services Chief Counsel. He earned his LLM in Health Law from the University of Houston Law Center, his Doctor of Law (J.D.) from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law. He is currently a partner in Health Law Associates, Little Rock, Arkansas. He will be taking leave from his law firm.
Charles has served CPSP for the past six years as attorney and advisor, for the most part on a pro bono basis. He believes strongly in the values and vision to which CPSP is committed. Charles has in many ways demonstrated his deep commitment to our commitment to our community
The occasion for bringing Charles onto the CPSP staff is the fact that our community has grown so large and diverse that volunteer staffing is inadequate for managing all our affairs. For the past quarter center we have employed only one person, Krista Argiropolis. Krista has served us well and plans to continue doing so.
I ask the CPSP community to welcome Charles aboard, and assist him in the many tasks facing him.

Raymond J. Lawrence, General Secretary

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Raymond J. Lawrence, General Secretary
The College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy is a theologically based International Accrediting and Certifying Covenant Community dedicated to Recovery of Soul. CPSP offers accreditation to Clinical Pastoral Education Training Programs, Pastoral Counseling Training Programs, and certification to individuals that meet standards of expertise in Pastoral Supervision, Pastoral Psychotherapy, Pastoral Counseling, and Clinical Chaplaincy. CPSP is committed to continuing accountability, standards of excellence, and diversity of opportunity.

The Commission for the Accreditation of Pastoral and Psychotherapy Training

2015-03-06T11:22:00.004-08:00

The College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy is pleased to announce the formation and establishment of an independent organization that will assure the proper thorough accreditation of its training programs and its training organizations.

The Commission for the Accreditation of Pastoral and Psychotherapy Training (CAPPT) in the independent commission that will audit and attest the work of the CPSP process of training accreditation. While related to CPSP CAPPT is independently incorporated, has its own board of trustees, and consists of professionals outside of CPSP as well as within CPSP.

Having such an independent accrediting commission is consistent with other specialized professional organizations such as the American Association for Marriage and Family Counseling, the American Psychological Association, and the American Association of Medical Colleges. Each of these organizations and others like them submit their own accreditation reviews to such independent organizations in order to assure the public and potential employers that an independent commission can attest that an accredited training center fulfills the standards for quality professional training.
The Commission for the Accreditation of Pastoral and Psychotherapy Training has its own website: http://www.pastoralaccreditation.org. Take a look at the site to learn how CAPPT works and to meet the Board of Trustees

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CAPPT

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences-Clinical Pastoral Education Class 2014-2015

2014-10-07T10:55:00.002-07:00

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2014-08-15T18:25:00.001-07:00

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2014-07-27T15:20:00.001-07:00

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2014-06-18T09:56:00.003-07:00

UAMS Clinical Pastoral Training Program

Summer 2014 CPE Resident and Internsaption

The CPE program at UAMS Medical Center has a history that extends over twenty years. Chaplain interns and residents serve as hospital chaplains and provide pastoral care and counseling to inpatients, families and hospital staff. Each chaplain in training is assigned to a number of floors and units, providing an opportunity for the trainee to experience the full range of care settings in a modern medical facility. The trainees are required to provide 24 hours on-call coverage for the Medical Center. In addition, each trainee is required to present case studies, attend didactic seminars, provide written reflections upon reading reviews, meet with their supervisors for individual supervision sessions, conduct a weekly ecumenical worship service and take part in group relations seminars.

CPE at UAMS focuses on the development of personal and pastoral identity and the growth of professional competence as a minister. Specific objectives of CPE are:

To become aware of one's self as a minister and of the ways one's ministry affects people.
To become a competent pastor of people and groups in various life situations and crisis circumstances and to develop the maturity to provide intensive and extensive pastoral care and counseling.
To utilize the clinical method of learning.
To utilize the support, confrontation, and clarification of the peer group for the integration of personal attributes and pastoral functioning.
To become competent in self-evaluation and in utilizing supervision and consultation to evaluate one's pastoral practice.
To develop the ability to make optimum use of one's religious heritage, theological understanding, and knowledge of behavioral sciences in pastoral ministry to people and groups.
To acquire self-knowledge to a degree that permits pastoral care to be offered within the strengths and limitations of one's own person.
To develop the ability to work as a pastoral member of an interdisciplinary team.
To develop the capacity to utilize one's pastoral perspective and competence in a variety of functions such as preaching, teaching and administration, as well as pastoral care and counseling.
To become aware of how one's attitudes, values and assumptions affect one's ministry.
To understand the theological issues arising from experience and to utilize theology and the behavioral sciences to understand the human condition.

Accreditation

For more information Visit the following link: UAMS Clinical Pastoral Education Training Program

The Many Faces of the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

2014-06-16T19:52:00.001-07:00

The Many Faces of the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

The Covenant of the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy

We, the CPSP members see ourselves as spiritual pilgrims seeking a truly collegial professional community. Our calling and commitments are, therefore, first and last theological. We covenant to address one another and to be addressed by one another in a profound theological sense. We commit to being mutually responsible to one another for our professional work and direction.

Matters that are typically dealt with in other certifying bodies by centralized governance will be dealt with primarily in Chapters. Thus, we organize ourselves in such a way that we each participate in a relatively small group called a Chapter consisting of approximately a dozen colleagues. Teaching or counseling programs directed by CPSP Diplomates are the primary responsibility of the Chapter.

We commit ourselves to a galaxy of shared values that are as deeply held as they are difficult to communicate. “Recovery of soul” is a metaphor that points toward these values. We place a premium on the significance of the relationships among ourselves. We value personal authority and creativity. We believe we should make a space for one another and stand ready to midwife one another in our respective spiritual journeys. Because we believe that life is best lived by grace, we believe it essential to guard against becoming invasive, aggressive, or predatory toward each other. We believe that persons are always more important than institutions, and even the institution of CPSP itself must be carefully monitored lest it take on an idolatrous character.

We intend to travel light, to own no property, to accumulate no wealth, and to create no bureaucracy. We are invested in offering a living experience that reflects human life and faith within a milieu of supportive and challenging community of fellow pilgrims.

John DeVelder Celebrating the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

2014-06-15T06:26:00.001-07:00

The Anton Boisen Book Project

2014-04-07T06:34:00.004-07:00

The Boisen Book Project:

"The Boisen Books Project will reintroduce Boisen to a new generation in the 21st century. As relevant today as when they were first published, Boisen’s three major books will appear, one-a-year, beginning in Spring 2015, marking the 50th anniversary of his death in 1965."

This is great news for all of us in the clinical pastoral field who have been shaped, guided and inspired by Anton T. Boisen's writings.

No doubt many have been instrumental in launching this enterprise. At this writing we know that CPSP's David Roth, PhD and Robert Charles Powell, MD, PhD were a part of the creation of the Boisen Book Project.

The website for the project pays tribute to Dr. Powell: "The new editions will each include a new Introduction by renowned historian of the pastoral care movement and psychiatrist Robert Charles Powell, MD, PhD, as well as a new foreword and afterword."

Keep checking with boisenbooks.com to learn more and for pre-order information

Read more about the Boisen Book Project on the Pastoral Report the online Journal of the
College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

2014 Plenary Gathering of the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

2013-10-22T08:18:00.000-07:00

On behalf of the CPSP Leadership Team, we warmly invite you to join us for the 24th Annual CPSP Plenary in Virginia Beach, Virginia, March 30 – April 3, 2014. We will meet at the Sheraton Oceanfront Hotel for informative speakers, dynamic group process and a fun filled evening of karaoke. Dr. J. Harold Ellens will be the recipient of the Helen Flanders Dunbar Award.

The CPSP plenary gathering is unique in many ways and one of the most important aspects of our gathering is the mutual sharing of our work and our lives in a small group context. Please come prepared to share yourself and your clinical work as we come together to hear and to respond to each voice in the community.

Full details of the Plenary Registration, Schedule and workshops will be forthcoming

UAMS CPE Class 2013-2014

2013-09-23T13:57:00.000-07:00

Spiritual Care Collaborative Announces Dissolution

2013-08-05T19:42:00.001-07:00

The organization that was set to change the face of Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical Pastoral training movement, the Spiritual Care Collaborative, has been dissolved as a corporation. The Association of Professional Chaplains, one of the founding organizations, had withdrawn from membership in the fall of 2010.

On May 14, 2012, the Steering Committee of the Spiritual Care Collaborative (SCC) voted to dissolve its formal Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) structure. The LLC was formed in 2007 as the six founding associations prepared for the 2009 SCC Summit. While this formal structure is no longer needed, the five associations of the SCC, American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Canadian Association for Spiritual Care, National Association of Catholic Chaplains, and National Association of Jewish Chaplains, remain deeply committed to one another to convene quarterly via conference calls to share projects, to review/revise/ affirm the common documents developed to be a unified voice for professional pastoral care provider, pastoral counselor or educator.

Common Standards for Professional Chaplaincy
Common Standards for Pastoral Educators/Supervisors
Common Code of Ethics for Chaplains, Pastoral Counselors, Pastoral Educators and Students
Principles for Processing Ethical Complaints

The association will continue to collaborate in the spirit of SCC’s mission to “advance excellence in professional pastoral and spiritual care, counseling, education and research,” and the vision to be “a forum for providing a collective voice to promote the highest standards of professional practice and to advance the field of professional spiritual care.”

For further questions, contact David Lichter (dlichter@nacc.org)

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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Clinical Pastoral Education Program

The Many Faces of the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

The Covenant of the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy

John DeVelder Celebrating the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

The Anton Boisen Book Project

2014 Plenary Gathering of the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

UAMS CPE Class 2013-2014

Spiritual Care Collaborative Announces Dissolution