Summer 2005/Pasadena
FE546
Clark
FE546: CLINICAL PASTORAL TRAINING, HOSPITAL PRACTICUM. Chapman Clark.
DESCRIPTION:
- This course (offered pass/fail for 2 units) is designed to provide
an experience of pastoral care in the general or psychiatric hospital setting
under the direct supervision of a certified Hospital Chaplain. Students will:
1) explore attitudes about disease, pain, suffering, psychic dysfunction,
separation from family, and death and dying; 2 ) develop skills in the
visitation of patients and in relating to hospital staff; 3) sharpen abilities
to reflect theologically in connection with personal encounters in the hospital
setting; and 4) participate in leading of worship or devotional programs as
scheduled.
RELEVANCE FOR MINISTRY:
- This course offers an introduction to the tasks and skills of
ministry as a hospital chaplain in a general-medical and/or psychiatric
institution.
COURSE FORMAT:
- The student will spend a minimum of 100 hours in the hospital
setting in one 10-week period. During this time, the student will be given
visitation assignments, meet regularly with the chaplain and other hospital
staff for integrative and didactic sessions, and participate in worship or
devotional services as assigned. The chaplain will provide training and lead
discussions on topics relevant to hospital ministry. Students are required to
attend all sessions.
ASSIGNMENTS:
- Regular and punctual attendance, completion of all visitation
assignments, attendance at all scheduled seminars, participation in at least
one chapel service, completion of at least four written (typed) verbatims, one
book review, and one personal evaluation report to be submitted the tenth week
of the quarter by the supervising Chaplain and the student to the Office of
Field Education. NOTE: Substitute assignments may be given by the chaplain, but
equivalent material must be submitted.
PREREGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS:
- Before the student may register for this course, several
steps must be completed, a process that may take up to a month, since the
student is responsible to make arrangements for an internship site. The first
step in the process is to read the preregistration materials available on the
internet at www.fuller.edu/sot/fielded or in the Office of Field
Education. After the student has submitted internship and supervisor
applications, he or she must schedule an enrollment interview with the Office
of Field Education. If the internship is approved, the student will then
receive a Course Approval Notification that must be submitted to the Academic
Advisor prior to registration. The student must also complete an orientation
with the assigned chaplain at the beginning of the internship.
PREREQUISITES:
- None.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM:
- Meets FE2 Field Education MDiv requirement (MIN 7). This practicum
is offered pass/fail for two units.
FINAL EXAMINATION:
- None.