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Academic Programs
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Essential
Skills in Pastoral Counseling and Ministry
(AM-638)
Fall
2004 |
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This
course will offer pastors, lay ministers and caregivers an
opportunity to learn basic counseling skills for use in
pastoral settings. Students
will develop skills in assessment, honoring ethical concerns
and addressing the most common diagnoses such as depression
and anxiety. Attention
will be given to clarifying the differences between pastoral
care and pastoral counseling.
Issues of referral to professional mental health
resources and community agencies also will be addressed.
Meeting
Day, Time and Dates:
Tuesdays from 7
p.m. to 9:20 p.m.
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Benjamin
K. Watts
Faculty Associate in the Arts of Ministry and Theology
Contact
Information:
phone: (860)
509-9538
email:
rbkw@aol.com
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Course
Syllabus
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Please
note: The following is a preliminary syllabus and is subject
to change.
Required
Reading:
Culbertson,
Philip, Counseling Men, (1994)
Leslie, Kristen, When Violence is No Stranger, (2003)
Miller, Kathleen A. & Jackson, William R., Practical
Psychology for Pastors, (1985)
Moessner, Jeanne Stevenson (Ed), Through the Eyes of Woman, (1996)
Stone, Howard (Ed), Strategies for Brief Pastoral Counseling,
(2001)
Recommended
Reading:
Benner,
D. G., Strategic Pastoral Counseling: A Short Term
Structured Model, 2003
Clinebell, Howard, Basic Types of Pastoral Care and Counseling,
(1984)
Cooper-White, Pamela, The Cry of Tamar, (1995)
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Week
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Topic
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Required Reading
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Assignment Due
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1
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Introduction
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2
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Fundamentals of counseling
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Miller & Jackson
Chapter 1
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3
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The art of being present
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Miller & Jackson
Chapter 4, 5
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4
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The counseling process
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Miller & Jackson
Chapters 2, 3, 7, 9
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Your
developing theology of
pastoral care
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5
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Models of pastoral care
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Stone
Chapters 2, 3, 7, 11, 12
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6
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Models of pastoral care (Con’t)
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7
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Pastoral care in crisis
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Miller & Jackson
Chapters 13, 14
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Role
play
Self-evaluation
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8
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Grief and hope
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Miller & Jackson
Chapter 12
Stone
Chapter 4
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9
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Referrals
and mandated reporting.
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Miller & Jackson
Chapters 19, 20
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Interviews
with pastoral care providers
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10
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Sexual violence
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Leslie (book)
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11
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Counseling women
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Moessner (book)
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Pastoral
conversation with care seeker
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12
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Counseling men
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Culbertson (book)
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13
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The minister as wounded healer
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