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CPE
AT ST VINCENTS
St. Vincent's
is one of Sydney’s leading health care institutions
with a long tradition in educating nurses,
doctors, allied health, and pastoral care
professionals.
St Vincent's recognises
that spiritual care is an integral part
of patients' healing and well-being. It
has a dynamic pastoral care department that
responds to the spiritual care needs of
patients, their families and the staff.
The
Clinical Pastoral Education Centre was es-tablished
in 1981. Since then it has conducted over
70 programs, with more than 350 gradu-ates.
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WHAT
IS CLINICAL PASTORAL EDUCATION?
- Provides
opportunities for you to:-
- Grow
in knowledge and understanding of your
pastoral role
- Develop
skills that will enable you to be-come
a more effective Pastoral Carer
- Deepen
your awareness of each patient's spiritual
needs, hopes and resources
- Become
more aware of your values, atti-tudes
and assumptions
WHAT DOES
THE PROGRAM INVOLVE?
- 400
hours
- Visiting
patients and working as a Pastoral Carers/Chaplain
in a ward
- Responding
to people experiencing a crisis
- Opportunities
to reflect upon and learn from your
experience of ministry with a supervisor
and peer group
- Reflect
theologically, bringing into dialogue
your experience of God's presence and
ac-tion in the pastoral visit and your
theological tradition
- The
opportunity to work alongside other
members of the healing team
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WHO
CAN APPLY?
- Pastoral
Carers/Chaplains
- Volunteers
and paid Pastoral Carers
- Those
wishing to discern their suitability
to Pastoral Care
- Those
seeking to learn more effective ways
of caring for people in need
IS THE
PROGRAM RECOGNISED?
- Employers
of Pastoral Care professionals often
advertise for CPE graduates with three
units (400 hour programs)
- The
Civil Chaplains Advisory Board recom-mends
that Chaplains have at least one unit
of CPE
WHAT ABOUT
ACADEMIC RECOGNITION?
- Bachelor
of Theology students receive 18 credit
points for a CPE unit
- MA (Chaplaincy)
2 Basic and 1 Advanced unit of CPE is
half the course work
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2008 Courses
Semester 1
Part time courses (Mondays)
Orientation
Jan 30.31
- Mondays Feb 18 to July 21
- Wednesdays
Feb 6 to June 25
Semester 2
Part time
courses ( Wednesdays)
Excluding
Sept 3, Oct22,29,Nov 5
Participants will need
to be engaged in a minimum of 6 hours of ministry per
week
Applications should be
received at least two to three months prior to the course
commencing. This will allow time for the processing
of your application.
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Applications to:
Ms Jenny Washington
Pastoral
Educator
Clinical Pastoral Education Centre
St
Vincents Hospital
Victoria St
Darlinghurst NSW
2010
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