Pastoral Care & Counseling
The emphasis in Pastoral Care and Counseling is designed to help students integrate their gifts of compassion with greater self-understanding and both the theological and clinical tools necessary for ministries of care that are sensitive to human needs. Graduation with this emphasis provides the foundation for students to proceed into a one- or two-year training program that may lead to certification as a chaplain or pastoral counselor. In addition to the core curriculum, Comprehensive Seminar, and electives of their own choosing, students do their Supervised Ministry in a setting related to pastoral care. The four required courses in this emphasis are: Introduction to Pastoral Care; Human Sexuality in Ministry; Ministry to the Dying and Their Families; and a basic unit of Clinical Pastoral Education. Students choose their fifth required course from among the following: Emergency Pastoral Care; Group Pastoral Care; Pastoral Care in Marriage; and Pastoral Care with Family Systems.