Levels Of Clinical Pastoral Training

This accessible primer sets out the core elements and methods of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), and shows how to use it most effectively to improve clinicians' capacity for spiritual care. The guide explains how to learn best from verbatim sessions, open agenda groups and writing projects. It shows how the primary learning modalities of CPE add competence to a spiritual caregiver's practice, suggesting helpful ways to reflect on spiritual care encounters from varying perspectives. It recommends ways to collaborate with a peer group, enhance frameworks of understanding people, improve self-awareness and broaden one's scope of caring while also deepening it. Written by an experienced supervisor of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, this guide is an essential introduction for anyone seeking to foster positive attitudes and practice of spiritual care in hospitals, hospices and other clinical settings.

"This Survival Kit is a clearly established and rare manual resource for teaching and training CPE students. The author, Dr. Brenda P. Wallace, offers a succinct history and philosophical/theological framework, including a SMART Goal paradigm, which practically facilitates students in navigating the step by step clinical and didactic processes. I heartily endorse this CPE resource and consider it a requirement that every clinical pastoral education supervisor and student should possess." -Dr. Thomas Louis Brown, Sr., ThD. Bishop, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. Brenda Perry Wallace received a Doctor of Education from Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership from Walden University in Minneapolis, MN. Her dissertation entitled 'Perceptions of Lived-Experiences of Clinical Pastoral Education Students.' Four themes that emerged from this study were: a) Personal Empowerment; b) Increased Sensitivity to the Suffering of Others; c) Improved Competencies in Pastoral Care; and d) Connectivity to Self-Care and Ministry. She has worked as an engineer at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as well as twenty years as an engineer, project, and product manager with BellSouth, now AT&T. She was ordained as an American Baptist minister in 1998. Rev. Dr. Wallace currently serves as the secretary to the Southeast Region of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (SERACPE). She enjoys being a part of the National and Regional ACPE Accreditation committees, and has served as an Accreditation consultant to CPE Supervisors and ACPE centers preparing for ACPE Accreditation Reviews.

This open access volume is the first academic book on the controversial issue of including spiritual care in integrated electronic medical records (EMR). Based on an international study group comprising researchers from Europe (The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland), the United States, Canada, and Australia, this edited collection provides an overview of different charting practices and experiences in various countries and healthcare contexts. Encompassing case studies and analyses of theological, ethical, legal, healthcare policy, and practical issues, the volume is a groundbreaking reference for future discussion, research, and strategic planning for inter- or multi-faith healthcare chaplains and other spiritual care providers involved in the new field of documenting spiritual care in EMR. Topics explored among the chapters include: Spiritual Care Charting/Documenting/Recording/Assessment Charting Spiritual Care: Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Aspects Palliative Chaplain Spiritual Assessment Progress Notes Charting Spiritual Care: Ethical Perspectives Charting Spiritual Care in Digital Health: Analyses and Perspectives Charting Spiritual Care: The Emerging Role of Chaplaincy Records in Global Health Care is an essential resource for researchers in interprofessional spiritual care and healthcare chaplaincy, healthcare chaplains and other spiritual caregivers (nurses, physicians, psychologists, etc.), practical theologians and health ethicists, and church and denominational representatives.