Clinical Pastoral Education CPE
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The objectives of CPE define CPE and determine the scope of the curriculum. The curriculum is designed to facilitate the student’s achievement of the following objectives:
Objectives of Level 1 CPE
The development of the student’s understanding of the needs of those entrusted to his/her care.
The development of the student’s understanding of himself/herself as minister/spiritual care giver and how this understanding affects others.
To help the student use the clinical method of learning (action/reflection) both in individual supervision and in the peer group situation to learn the skills necessary for ministry/providing Spiritual Care.
To increase the student’s theological understanding of issues arising from his/her experience.
To help the student become more aware of how his/her attitudes, values, and assumptions affect his/her ministry/spiritual care provision.
To gain an understanding of the theoretical foundations for ministry (to include theological, philosophical, sociological, psychological, epistemological etc)
To develop the ability to make use of one’s faith heritage, theological understanding and knowledge of behavioural sciences in the pastoral care to individuals and groups.
To acquire self-knowledge to a degree that permits pastoral care to be offered within the strengths and limitations of one’s own person.
To develop the ability to work as a pastoral member of an interdisciplinary team and assume a leadership role when necessary.
To develop one’s pastoral understanding and competence in a variety of functions such as preaching, teaching, pastoral care, and administration.
To be competent in self-evaluation and the use of peer group evaluation of pastoral work.
To show an increased ability to deal with theological and moral issues.
To become a competent minister to persons and groups in various life situations and crisis circumstances.
To grow in cultural humility and cultural competence
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1. Communication: I have a proven track record of developing authentic relationships across communities, especially amongst the Deaf Community, by interpreting and conveying information to others simply and unambiguously through Irish Sign Language (ISL).
2. Research: I bring a demonstrated ability to apply the knowledge acquired from scholarship to teaching and external activities. I am an experienced researcher and am known for using learnings to generate actionable recommendations.
3. Pastoral Care: I provide spiritual support services to individuals and families at hospitals, care homes, prisons and other settings as required. I strive to manage the specific spiritual needs of each individual with respect and understanding
I have achieved notable religious/spiritual development over the years that I have worked as a Chaplain for the Deaf. I have gained seven years of experience providing spiritual care services in a variety of health care settings. I also have seven years of professional experience providing services to the terminally ill and the bereaved. During this time, I also gained experience in offering services within a health care setting as a chaplain and working as a member of a hospice interdisciplinary team. I have gained knowledge of diverse religious-cultural practices, health care ethics, grief and bereavement counselling techniques, working with families at hospices, and excellent work organisation skills.
My primary reason for pursuing this programme is that it will equip me with knowledge and skills that can help me better understand the needs of the population I serve as part of continuous professional development. Hence, I will gain confidence and understand the boundaries that I need to observe as a chaplain when interacting with patients and other people who are deaf. For instance, I will gain ethical knowledge on the boundaries that I need to maintain with patients in offering physical, communication, and spiritual help to support their recovery process in a hospital environment.
Secondly, the programme will play an instrumental role in enhancing my capabilities of delivering spiritual care to individuals within the Deaf community across various settings, such as when they attend hospitals and are bereaved. Also, the programme will support my collaborations with interdisciplinary teams to agree on spiritual inputs in the process of offering overall care and interpretation required to deliver safe, satisfactory, and quality care to patients.
Although the programme will equip me with the skills needed to provide guidance and counselling to the Deaf community, an issue close to my heart, in my experience, it is also vital to develop bespoke plans for engaging with those patients drawn from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The programme will also enable me to cater to both groups and help me resolve emotional issues and crises through support, scripture, prayer, and support for the patient with healing challenges. I also intend to complete the programme to counsel patients who experience life-threatening illnesses, supporting families emotionally and spiritually to respond to the approaching death of their loved ones effectively. The programme will also enable me to facilitate the post-death bereavement process for families, such as referrals to support groups and individual counselling using crisis response resources and sign language.
Upon completing the programme, I will be in a better position to improve patients’ and their family’s accessibility to church teachings by interpreting from English to sign language for deaf clients during Mass and other religious ceremonies. It will also enhance my ability to offer Religious Education to different schools by regularly acting as an intermediary between teachers and deaf students. The programme will also provide me with the skills needed to remain non-denominational when on duty to effectively serve the spiritual needs of patients and families drawn from different religious backgrounds.
The programme will also ensure that I have the skills and knowledge to perform occasional liturgical assignments, for instance, annual service of remembrance and monthly memorial services with staff. After completing the programme, I intend to participate in patient conferences by assessing and exploring the potential spiritual needs of individual patients and their families who experience loss and terminal illness. I will be in a better position to keep proper records of visits to families and patients, which will be critical in devising evidence-based care practices that chaplains can use in delivering quality care to patients and families from a spiritual perspective.
Individual Learning
1) Reason for taking CPE:
2) State your goals for the CPE Unit:
a) Personal: To be able to be confidence ensuring that I can communicate clear as I am Deaf and able to lip read. At time it may be challenging but to overcome this by being confidence and asking to repeat. (Write further along the lines)
b) Pastoral:
c) Professional:
Write 2-3 goals. The goals need to be specific (not too broad0 and concise (a couple of lines). Please align your goals with the objectives of the CPE.
3. How do you wish to accomplishes these goals? To achieve this making the connection with the patients and to ensure that we understand each other despite my Deafness and making sure there are no communication barrier. (Write further along the lines)
4. How will you know you have met these goals? By reflection and looking at myself how I dd from day one to the end of the course. (Write further along the lines)
Impression of first week
General Impression:
How did the initail impact with the course (People, hosptial, general organisation, shedule etc.) affect you?
Write along the line something like this. Overall it was professionlism and standard that impressed me, the studnets and supervisor have gave me great support with a great understanding to assit me to ensure that i undesrtand by lip reading them and to ensure taht i follow what was being said and keeping me informed what os happening. Thy also wish to learn sign language and that was amazing. This will be benifical for them as acre pastoral to commuincate with the deaf in future if they meet them. Meeting the patients inspired me as this is a privilage to be part of this, being with them to ……..The patients praised the staff at the hospital for their professiolism and caring, that they couldn’t asked for more….
We do the morning prayer and mediation which really help and learning from each pther theor syles and inputs giving me more inspiration.
Pastoral Visitation:
What was that like to start your pastoral ministry?
This was my first time meeting the hearing patients in hospital as I have always work with the Deaf community using sign language …. (write more along the line……)First time I was kind of nervous hoping that they will understand me, after the group feedback on pastoral care meeting the patients, help me to reflect how to speak clear and to pace it without speaking too fast.
Group:
How did you feel in the group? How did you find the stories- sharing?
This help to build trust and confedentiality among us where we can express about our expereinces and reflecting . They also undertsand my challenge in listening to people and need to lip read, they were fantantic group and really am lucky to be part of them and feeling inclusive. (Write more along the lines
Others:
Any other impresion or feeling you are aware of.
With the group and supervisor I am become more aware of expreesing feeling more and able to express freely and hnsetly. This gave me a sense of trust among each other….. (wrtie a bit more to mak a strong points)