Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is experiential learning of the art and science of pastoral care. CPE students increase capacities in psychological strengths such as self-awareness and empathy, and improve skills in interpersonal and inter-professional relationships. Previous research has documented different kinds of change and experiences for students depending on the length of the CPE unit...

The ideal intervention paper exercise, from the perspective of the pastoral formation of the student, can be an experience that helps to complete the student’s formation of her or his pastoral identity in a CPE Unit. The development of the paper brings into play the student’s ability to make effective use of her or his religious and spiritual heritage, theological understanding, knowledge of be...

PASTORAL CARE IN A LONG-TERM CARE SETTING I n 1984 the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm undertook to begin formal pastoral care departments in each of their 23 facilities. St. Joseph's Manor in Trumbull, CT, a 297-bed long-term care facility owned by the Diocese of Bridgeport and operated by the Carmelite Sisters, was one of the first to implement this community directive. St. Joseph's...

Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. In the current times of change, deconstruction and ever-growing relativisation, pastoral praxis finds itself in methodological limbo. Pastoral practitioners currently face the challenge of effectively reaching postmodern people through the pastoral process. This ch...

Wehave a diversemix of articles in this issue, which I am delighted to see. They are diverse with respect to the topics they explore, the methods they use, the perspectives they offer, and the professional disciplines of their authors. The authors of the first article include psychologists, chaplains, pastoral counselors, and theologians, all of whom are active healthcare researchers. The artic...

As the United States becomes a more multicultural and multireligious society, the ranks of healthcare chaplains are no longer being limited solely to Judeo-Christian clerics. In an effort to increase interfaith understanding and ecumenical awareness, the author presents one model of healthcare chaplaincy that derives itself from a Buddhist perspective and how he uses it in his daily work at a l...

The discipline of pastoral counseling has developed to the point at which malpractice claims against pastoral counselors are a reality. The need for forensic psychiatrists to participate in such suits is likely to increase. In this article, we review the recent California case of Nally v. Grace Community Church. Kenneth Nally committed suicide while under the care of clergy. His parents claimed...