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3.00 Credits
This course provides a basic foundation for counseling individuals from systemic and pastoral perspectives. It will focus on basic theories and skills that enable the pastor/pastoral counselor to offer counseling services to individuals presenting themselves for help with problems. Interventions with individuals will be informed by the multiple contexts in which they are located including the particularities of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Care for others will also be guided by a deepened understanding of persons as created in the image of a relational God and as embedded in multiple systems of meaning and relationships. This is an integrative course, which will bring together information from the behavioral sciences (particularly family systems studies), theology, the students' life experience, and practical skill development. This course fulfills the pastoral care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar is focused by several key concerns: how the behavioral sciences enrich our ritual practice; how the church's rich heritage in liturgy and ritual enlarges our possibilities to mediate the transformative healing of God's love; discerning occasions in human experience which need/require ritual observance; and the public dimensions of ritual observance and care. This course does fulfill the pastoral care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Loren L. Townsend This course provides theological, theoretical and practical foundations for the practice of couple therapy. In this course, students will explore the development of marital therapy, foundations for assessment of couple problems, and the practical application of current evidence-based methods for assessing and treating couple problems. Readings, lectures and practical applications will be framed within a family systemic context and grounded within reflective theological understandings of the human person in relationship. Students will have the opportunity to experience a variety of intervention methods and begin the process of formulating a theological and personally integrated model of marital/couple therapy. This course fulfills the Pastoral Care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Elizabeth Johnson Walker; Loren L. Townsend This course provides procedural, theoretical and theological foundations for the practice of family therapy. In this course, students will explore the nature and development of family therapy, its impact on understanding human motivation and relationship systems, and explore its application in clinical practice. This will include a focus on family organization, family subsystems, and transgenerational processes as these apply to assessment, case conceptualization, treatment and theological understandings of family therapy. Through exploring contemporary family therapy approaches, students will have the opportunity to experience a variety of intervention methods and begin the process of formulating a theologically and personally integrated model of family therapy. This course fulfills the Pastoral Care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Wayne Clark This course contributes to the formation of a professional identity for the pastor as marriage and family therapist. It addresses the ethical foundations for a professional conscience, an analysis of professional ethical codes, issues in the clinical practice and contractual arrangements of marriage and family therapy together with such common recurrent problems as sexual misconduct, dual relationships, confidentiality, and physical and sexual abuse. Attention is given to core competencies established by COAMFTE, including family law and the legal system, the importance and procedures of reporting misconduct, and the value of ongoing supervision and consultation in a clinical practice. This is a formative as well as a summative process. The MAMFT candidate is expected to acquire knowledge of AAMFT and AAPC ethical codes and to integrate this knowledge into a practical philosophy of clinical practice. This course does not fulfill the pastoral care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
This class will explore historical, economic, sociological, theological, and theoretical issues relevant to ministry with families in this North American cultural context. We will address changing forms and styles of family life and their implications. We will also consider issues of gender, race, and ethnicity as those are integrally related to issues of family norms and structures. Family life-cycle and generational issues will be presented. This course is designed to provide conceptual tools for those students who wishing to pursue the professional speciality of Marriage and Family Therapy or ministries with families more generally within a theological perspective.
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3.00 Credits
Carol J. Cook Sexuality is central to our identity and a pervasive dimension of any human interaction. The influence of sexuality on the practice of ministry is equally significant though complicated by the church's ambivalence about or distrust of it as God's good gift. In this course we will consider representative views on sexuality and develop theological perspectives concerning it. Special attention will be given to integrating these theological perspectives with skills for pastoral practice in pastoral counseling and congregational settings. This course fulfills the Pastoral Care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Loren L. Townsend This course explores foundational epistemological concepts for Family Therapy Theory. It is designed to provide conceptual tools for those students who wish to pursue the professional specialization of Marriage and Family Therapy within a theological context. Course content focuses on evaluation and critique of three foundational epistemological streams influencing family therapy-personality theory, general systems and cybernetic theory, and postmodernity. Evaluation and critique will be both theoretical and theological, and will include particular attention to theories' interaction with central issues of gender, race, class, and ethics. Normally, MAMFT students will take this class in the fall of their second year of study. This course does not fulfill the pastoral care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program. Prerequisites: PC3043 and completion of Practicum I or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
In this course particular attention will be given to the theological and theoretical resources and clinical skills useful for ministries of care in congregational settings. Topics will include issues such as pastoral care as a systemic dimension of pastoral leadership, ethical aspects of pastoral care, care in relation to lifespan or developmental issues, crisis situations, ritual resources for ministries of care and counseling, developing congregational networks and strategies for caregiving, and resources and skills for particular situations presented by various forms of abuse. Clinical skills will also be developed for an entry level of practice in congregational settings. This course fulfills the pastoral care requirements for the Master of Divinity program.
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3.00 Credits
Carol J. Cook This course attends to the basic dimensions of care-giving relationships: modes of communication, the importance of boundaries, pastoral authority and power dynamics, seeking healing and justice. Novels, memoirs, film, and poetry will be used to facilitate learners' encounter with sameness and "otherness" andto provide resources for expanding capacities for empathy, care, and reflection. Subjects covered revolve around the changing nature of intimate relationships and family dynamics as they are influenced by cultural backgrounds, sexual orientation and gender identity, experiences of grief and loss, family secrets, abuse, addictions, aging, and the challenge of forgiveness. The course material utilizes a contextual, systemic, and intercultural approach to pastoral theology and the practice of pastoral care. This course fulfills the pastoral care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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