TM 550: Clinical Pastoral Education-CPE

The CPE program develops the pastoral care skills through interpersonal relationships, psychological, sociological, and theological perspectives that engage care recipients’ emotional and spiritual needs. Students learn how to minister to the human-spirit by providing holistic pastoral caregiving support. Students also become members of the inter-disciplinary team and work closely with the inter-faith community to meet the needs of patients, their family, medical and support staff. This course is an elective. Students receive Three Credit Hours for successful completion of One-Unit of CPE. This Hybrid Online-Program is Accredited by the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE). The CPE Program is supervised by a Certified Educator (CE) currently in affiliation with AdventHealth System. The Hybrid-Online Program is 400 Hours comprised of 100-Hours in the Virtual Classroom, and 300-Clinical Hours to be completed at Huntsville Hospital or other approved clinical or medical contexts such as Oakwood University Community Action Clinic. All Clinical-Hours are supervised by CPE Preceptors (CPEP).