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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
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Extended CPE – September 27 to March 27, 2007
The Supervisors
The Rev. Bob Uken
Director of the Department of Pastoral Services at Pine Rest and Coordinator
of CPE. Bob is a minister in the Christian Reformed Church, a Board Certified
Chaplain in the Association of Professional Chaplains, and an ACPE Supervisor.
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Application Information
For additional information and to receive an application blank, please contact
Elizabeth Dykstra at:
Phone: 616-281-6363 x2566
E-mail: elizabeth.dykstra@pinerest.org
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