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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...
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 ...
A learner chaplain leaves the room and the first instinct is to file the visit away and move to the next referral. Don't. What happens in the ten minutes after a visit, before supervision, decides whether the encounter becomes formation or just gets buried under the next one.
