CLASS DESCRIPTIONS AND SCHEDULES

DOMESTIC CPE PROGRAMS
BASIC UNIT COURSES
Basic CPE is professional education for ministry that focuses on the formation of one's identity as a pastoral care giver and the development of basic pastoral care skills (listening, theological reflection, psycho-social and cultural competency, personnel and inter-personnel awareness).

Summer Intern CPE Program (Full time, 10 Weeks)

• 2009: May 27 to August 7.
• 2010: May 26 to August 6
• 2011: May 25 to August 5 

Extended Internship CPE Program (16 Hours per Week, 7 Months)

• 2009:  October 5 to April 23
• 2010:  October 4 to April 22
• 2011:  October 3 to April 20

ADVANCED UNITS or RESIDENCY
Advanced CPE is for those who have achieved a heightened level of personal awareness, pastoral formation and professional development, and who desire continuous education in ministry and pastoral care specialization.  Students exercise greater autonomy, provide input to their CPE curriculum, and develop functions of professional chaplains.

Specialization offerings in pastoral care include:

• Pastoral Care & Behavioral Medicine
• Pastoral Care & Emergency Medicine
• Gerontology Pastoral Care
• Pastoral Care to the Medically Underserved

Residency CPE Program Schedule (Full time, 12 Months)

• 2009: September 1 to August 31 
• 2010: September 1 to August 31
• 2011: September 1 to August 31

SUPERVISOR-IN-TRAINING
Supervisory CPE Program (Full time):
Supervisory CPE is for those who demonstrate personal, theological and professional competence. Individuals who desire to learn the craft of supervising and teaching CPE will develop in the areas of: personal growth, the CPE process, individual supervision, group supervision, program management, and personal/professional integration of theology, including their identity as a clinical pastoral educator.

• Rolling Admission  

INDIGENOUS CPE PROGRAM:
Many CPE centers in the US train people from overseas in US facilities and, upon completion, some return to their home countries. Trainees from Western/European countries manage to adapt the techniques for pastoral care they learn, but trainees from Africa, South and East Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America have not.  Indeed, the people and institutions they attempt to serve dismiss their pastoral care as “foreign” or “American.” 

EHS’ Indigenous CPE does not assume the manifestation of CPE in the US is universally applicable.  EHS’ Indigenous CPE breaks through the colonial and imperialistic mentality that characterized religious mission enterprises and affects most CPE programs.  Unlike other CPE courses, EHS’ Indigenous CPE course promotes CPE’s growth in the native soil of the host country and culture, allowing it to evolve its own appropriate character, face and identity.  The work permits trainees and the host institutions to generate CPE methods and techniques that are unique, appropriate to, and effective in the host country and culture. 

Supervisory CPE Program (Full time):  Indigenous supervisory CPE is for those who demonstrate personal, theological and professional competence and who desire to learn the craft of supervising and teaching clinical pastoral education in their country. 

• Rolling Admission.