Display Full Text | Download Full Text
1.06 MB PDF file

Degree

Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change, 2008.

Abstract

Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is an 80 year old education modality that provides professional education for students of pastoral care. Supervision is central to the CPE process. Pastoral supervisors in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) have done little writing about their work educating Students in Supervisory Education (SSEs). The purpose of this dissertation is to identify and interview those practitioners in ACPE who have been identified by their peers as excellent in practice, and to cull their wisdom by listening to and categorizing their experience of supervising SSEs. The research question to the supervisors was: What is your experience educating CPE Students in Supervisory Education? The analysis of the interviews utilized a grounded theory methodology. The four primary dimensions of the process of educating SSEs emerged as Selecting students, Helping the SSE develop CPE supervisory practices; Guiding the SSE toward integration, and Blessing the SSE to develop independently. Each primary dimension refers to work the supervisor is doing with the SSE. The core dimension that emerged is Evolving Wisdom, and the core dimension refers to work the supervisor is doing in terms of her own continuing growth and development. Evolving Wisdom is a reciprocal core dimension that both feeds and draws from the primary dimensions. The theoretical proposition says that as Evolving Wisdom grows in the supervisor, the capacity for wisdom is nurtured in the SSE.

Subject Headings

Clergy; Health care; Higher education; Psychology; Religion; Theology

Keywords

Supervision; Pastoral Care; Supervisory Education; Clinical Pastoral Education; Chaplains; Grounded Theory; Clergy

Committee / Advisors

Elizabeth Holloway, PhD (Committee Chair)
Carolyn Kenny, PhD (Committee Member)
Steven Ivy, PhD (Committee Member)
Helen Roehlke, EdD (Committee Member)

Pages

198p.

Document number: antioch1205193710
Permalink: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1205193710

This ETD has been downloaded 705 times (through March 2013)