Marion VA Chaplain Service graduates 4 new CPE Residents

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On Thursday September 29th, The Marion VA Health Care System Graduated 4 new CPE Chaplain Residents.

Congratulations to the following graduates of the Marion VA Health Care System. Clinical Pastoral Education Residency Program.

     CPE is interfaith professional education for ministry, bringing theological students and ministers of all faiths (pastors, priests, rabbis, imams and others) into supervised encounter

with persons in crisis. Out of an intense involvement with persons in need, and the feedback from peers and teachers, students develop new awareness of themselves as persons and of the needs

of those to whom they minister. From theological reflection on specific human situations, they gain a new understanding of ministry. Within the interdisciplinary team process of helping

persons, they develop skills in interpersonal and interprofessional relationships.

      Students complete learning contracts which includes: Pastoral Reflection (reflection on one's self as person and pastor in relationship to persons in crisis, the educator, and peer

group members, as well as the curriculum and institutional setting), Pastoral Formation (focus on personal and pastoral identity issues in learning and ministry), and Pastoral Competence

(deepening and unfolding of competence in pastoral function, pastoral skills and knowledge of theology and the behavioral sciences).

      CPE is learned at several different Levels. The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) accredited Centers offer Level I and Level II CPE, as well as Educator CPE or

Certified Education Candidate (CEC) training, in sequence. ACPE certified CPE is usually offered in single units (10-12 weeks) or in a year-long program (3-4 consecutive units). Some ACPE

accredited Centers have other part-time options as well.