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Your first year in Clinical Pastoral Education, someone will ask you why a particular visit rattled you more than it should have. Maybe a patient reminded you of your own father. Maybe a family's anger toward the hospital left you defensive for the rest of your shift. That is the moment your supervi...
Preparing for Healthcare Chaplaincy: A Learner's First Steps in Formation
You have accepted a CPE unit or a first healthcare chaplaincy placement, and the hospital badge has not even printed yet. Before you walk a unit, three things are worth settling in advance: what you are there to do, what you ...
Every CPE learner writes a first verbatim, and almost every learner writes it wrong in the same way: they hand in a transcript that reads like a play script, then wait to find out what they missed. The verbatim is not a performance record. It is a formation tool, and supervisors read it looking for ...
