PROFESSIONAL CHAPLAINCY

CPSP committed to providing free educational resources to the pastoral care and clinical pastoral training movement. This is a free CPSP Podcast: College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy Annual Meeting 2012 Part 1 from Leonard Chamblee on Vimeo . Communication Near The End OF Life Kimberly Garner, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.F.P. Dr. Kimberly Garner is a staff physician at the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is also an assistant professor of Geriatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Garner is the medical director of the Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System which is a specialized intermediate unit which provides an interdisciplinary team approach in an inpatient setting. Dr. Garner received a juris doctorate degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law and a maste...

The College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy (CPSP) will now offer a clinical fellow in hospice and palliative care.  This will be a subspecialty credential for those already credentialed as Board Certified Clinical Chaplains / Board Certified Pastoral Counselors. More Information please follow the link below: Pastoral Report the online newsletter of the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy

The uniqueness of the College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy is that CPSP is a covenant community. One of the most significant aspects of the CPSP covenant is the commitment to travel light. Traveling light means among other things that CPSP is committed to owning no buildings and having no paid professional staff. This means that the CPSP community is not burdened by high due structures needed to maintain corporate headquarters and to pay high salaried executives. Thus, the very way in which CPSP organizes its common life together provides a significant alternative to corporate models of governance that truly flourishes and prospers. Owning no buildings means that CPSP has the least carbon footprint of any organization in the clinical pastoral care and training movement. Consequently, CPSP is an environmentally responsible organization by virtue of the CPSP covenant. The CPSP covenant really makes CPSP a different kind of professional community and making a difference is ...

CPSP Sponsoring Asia-Pacific Symposium on Clinical Pastoral Care November 17-21, 2008, the Asia-Pacific Symposium on "Clinical Pastoral Care, Counseling, and Education in the Asian Cultural Context" will be held in the dazzling city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It promises to draw seminal theoreticians and clinicians together, in the midst of a vibrant, culturally-diverse environment, to examine and discuss contextual and cultural relevancy in the pastoral care and counseling disciplines. CPSP inaugurates the first CPSP chapter in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. February 26th, 2008 Dr. Raymond J. Lawrence, General Secretary for the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy reviewed four candidates for Board Certification as Clinical Chaplains and inaugurated the first CPSP chapter in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. CPSP 2008 Plenary Gathering CPSP invites you to join us for an exciting time at the 2008 CPSP Plenary March 30 – April 2, 2008. This year's Plenary will feature informative ...

We are pleased to announce that Professor Arthur W. Frank will be the Keynote speaker at the at the 2008 Plenary Gathering of The College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy. Arthur W. Frank is professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Alberta Canada. Dr. Frank received his undergraduate degree in English from Princeton University (High Honours, 1968), his M.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University (1975). He has taught at the University of Calgary since 1975. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of The Hastings Center, the preeminent U.S. bioethics institute, and also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, which is the highest honor that Canadian academics can receive. He is the author of At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness (Houghton Mifflin, 1991), the story of his 1985 heart attack and subsequent testicular cancer. The book has been translated into four langua...