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3.00 Credits
Loren L. Townsend This course focuses on counseling theory and skills to support short-term counseling in religious congregations. Participants will be introduced to a practical, integrated approach to assessment, intervention, and follow-up using Solution-Focused, Behavioral, and Brief Strategic models of counseling. Constructing a theological frame for short-term counseling is an integral part of the class experience. Classroom time is divided between exploring essential theoretical foundations for shortterm counseling and establishing practical intervention skills. This course is appropriate for both M.Div. and MAMFT students. This course fulfills the pastoral care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Loren L. Townsend Divorced and remarried families are becoming a North American cultural norm. This course focuses on understanding these complex systems in an interdisciplinary context. Attention will be given to understanding divorced and remarried families from sociocultural, developmental, theological, and family process perspectives along with implications for pastoral care and family therapy. This course fulfills the Pastoral Care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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1.00 Credits
This course offers supervised experience in caring for persons during crisis periods of hospitalization or rehabilitation. Training is available at institutions accredited by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. Students function as chaplains in the institutions, offering counseling and the services of pastoral care to people with profound needs. Clinical studies, personal supervision, and interprofessional teaching form the basis of the educative method. One unit of CPE may be earned by fulfilling 16 work hours per week during both semesters, by 25 hours per week during a single semester, or full-time work for 10 weeks in the summer. Each unit of CPE earns three hours of academic credit for M.Div. students, and two units of field education. This course does not fulfill the pastoral care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced units in Clinical Pastoral Education are available for developing special competencies in pastoral care and accredited training toward supervisory status with the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. Continued training is provided in the institutions described in PCu 314-3. Students who register for PCu 314-3, the academic course, should also enter FE 114 on their registration form. Those in a second unit would register for PCu 315-3 and FE 224, and so on if additional units are taken. This course does not fulfill the pastoral care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides theological, theoretical, and practical foundations for a comprehensive exploration of assessment, treatment, and advocacy of children. Utilizing the Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental Disorders IV classification as well as Bowen family systems theory, Solution focused therapy, and Narrative approaches students will explore the diagnostic criteria for assessing children with psychiatric disorders and look at how the child's symptoms affect family homeostasis. Readings and lecture will focus on interventions at individual, family, church, and community levels that could be considered for all children. Emphasis will also be placed on examining the responsibility of the church in advocating for the needs of children. Faith development, child growth and development, and family life cycle stages will be explored. This course fulfills the pastoral care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Elizabeth Johnson Walker To a large extent the construction of gender, the rules and practices of diverse racial and ethnic groups, and the differences shaped by socioeconomic class, demonstrate the cultural relativity of family life. In this course we will critique our own internalization of these "rules" and practices and pursue gender andmulticultural perspectives that encourage and affirm respect for the diversity in various family systems. We will explore the way sexism, racism, and classism function oppressively to limit possibilities for well being in family systems and shaping the context for care. Using the lenses of gender, race, and class we will examine eight racial groups in North America according to their patterns in the following areas: life cycle issues religion and ritual marriage norms values gender rules and roles mental illness/dysfunction family functions and processes attitudes for seeking help We will consider the implications of such differences for appropriate interventions and continuing care in pastoral practice and family therapy. We will give particular attention to discerning the oppressive effects of racism, sexism, and classism for our own lives and develop personal and professional strategies for resisting their destructive effects. This course will use seminar discussion of readings assigned, video presentations, and experiential exercises. This course fulfills the Pastoral Care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Cláudio Carvalhaes; Loren L. Townsend This course will explore connections between worship and pastoral care. The class will examine alternatives to the modern notion that pastoral care is universally best expressed through a private, client-centered psychotherapeutic paradigm. During the semester, we will explore a communal-contextual approach in which care is expressed through multiversal liturgies designed to construct ecclesial contexts to sustain and strengthen community practices of care, expand care to include public, structural and political dimensions of personal and relational experience, and generate an expanded theology of care. Congregational, chaplaincy, and other contexts for worship will be discussed. This course is a Worship or Pastoral Care general elective.
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3.00 Credits
Diagnosis refers to an evaluative process which intends to discern and understand dysfunctional relationship patterns in persons, couples, families, and groups, including those in which mental disorders are involved. Effective assessment leads to the selection of appropriate and helpful responses. Pastoral diagnosis places this process of discernment in a theological context and is an exercise in practical theological reflection. In this course students will become familiar with current psychiatric diagnostic categories through the use of the DSM-IV-TR and their differential treatment strategies as well as systemic approaches to assessing dysfunctions in family relationships. The diagnostic process will be critically and theologically examined as it applies to marriage and family therapy and pastoral counseling in a variety of contexts. This course fulfills the Pastoral Care requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Research and reading are shared and appraised with other graduate students in a continuing colloquium for students working at the D.Min. level in the field of pastoral care.
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3.00 Credits
Loren L. Townsend This is a one or two week off-campus outdoor experiential course offered in January or June. It focuses on an approach to pastoral care which understands human participation in the natural world as fundamental to mental, spiritual, and physical well-being. The goal of the class is to explore the relationship between care, well-being, Sabbath, exploration, and ecological connection through directed reading and group outdoor recreation in remote locations. This is an off-campus course which requires transportation and fees in addition to tuition.
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