PROFESSIONAL CHAPLAINCY

The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education seeking Re-Recognition by the Department Of Education counseled to cease & desist a practice which "has frequently created problems and put students at risk" Department of Education evaluator, Ms. Jones, who recently attended meetings with the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education directs ACPE to end a practice which "has frequently created problems and put students at risk." The issue, as outlined in the December 2006 edition of the ACPE North Central Region News, is as follows: There have been many occasions when ACPE supervisors, despite having clear guidelines in the Accreditation Manual and duly designated colleagues with whom to consult about accreditation processes, have initiated units in satellite or component sites that have not been assessed and approved by those charged with that task. Colleagues on accreditation committees have felt themselves held hostage there after by appeal to students' w...

ALL BEHAVIOR HAS MEANING IN THE LEARNING PROCESS L. George Buck Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is a method of learning pastoral care in a clinical environment. This method of learning is experiential or relational in nature. John Dewey (the American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer) was one of the pioneers of experiential learning. He recognized the importance of the subjective experience of individuals as being important to learning. At the core of the CPE learning process is the on-going evaluation of one’s experience. The clinical setting affords the trainees the opportunity to experience themselves in various pastoral encounters which they are then called upon to evaluate. Resistance to learning is an integral part of the relational learning process. Characteristically, trainees resist the change they feel is imposed upon them in a critical evaluative process. This resistance to learning is not something that happens in the trainee’s relationship with h...