Clinical Pastoral Education - Coming Home to Self

This book explores Clinical Pastoral Education, one hundred years since its inception. It is a revolutionary text in that it brings many dialogue partners into the conversation and helps to review and re-envision an old methodology giving it fresh and new life.

This book is centred around an interesting reflection on Clinical Pastoral Education, a methodology now entering the conclusion of its first century in existence. Charting the history from humble beginnings in Boston, this book then moves to explore some of the now key elements of contemporary CPE narrative therapy, theological reflection, self-development and joy. This book is revolutionary in that it advocates for a movement away from the old style of CPE, to one that is more focused on using softer and newer teaching styles and methodologies. There is a call to harness greater joy and laughter for instance, to help support the learning process within the classroom. This is with the hope of encouraging and enabling self-awareness and self-revelation. It is revolutionary too in its style and approach. For instance, the use of Brené Brown's paradigm for wholehearted living (courage, compassion, connection) is explored here as a means for triggering the crafting and direction of pastoral relationships. This book provides a reflective and engaging exploration of Clinical Pastoral Education and is a must have for anyone with more than a passing interest in it, in pastoral (practical) theology and ministry, as a whole.

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Dr Margaret Naughton is a Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisor and Healthcare Chaplain at University Hospital, Kerry. She has a PhD in Pastoral Theology from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Her PhD thesis, Healthcare Chaplaincy - An Unfolding Narrative - Standing in the Gap, was published by Peter Lang in 2022. Dr Naughton has also published several other books and articles in the areas of spirituality, grief, illness and faith.

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Acknowledgements - Clinical Pastoral Education - Transformative Learning - One Hundred Years Later - An Introduction - Chapter 1 One Hundred Years of Clinical Pastoral Education - From Humble Beginnings - The Early Days - Chapter 2 Re-Envisioning the Vision - Using an 'Old' Methodology in New Ways - Chapter 3 To Thine Own Self Be True - Chapter 4 Courage, Compassion and Connection - Chapter 5 Joy and Laughter in the CPE Classroom - A Contradiction or a Core Competency? - Chapter 6 Drawing a Picture - Pastoral Images - Chapter 7 Theological Reflection - Befriending the Process - Chapter 8 Narrative Therapy - In Each Heart Is a Human Story - Chapter 9 Spiritual Assessment - Assessing the Pain and Learning to Read the Room - Chapter 10 Faith and Secularisation - Surviving and Thriving Within Shifting Sands - Chapter 11 Charting and Documentation - Professional Practice - Chapter 12 Healthcare Ethics - Grappling With the Giant - Bibliography - Index