2005 Bridgeport SPRING EVENING Pastoral Counseling Training Program

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1 Saint Francis Academy For Clinical Pastoral Training ANNOUNCING 2005 Bridgeport SPRING EVENING Pastoral Counseling Training Program Memo This notice is to remind all interested participants of the SPRING EVENING Pastoral Counseling Training Class of the starting dates / times, etc. DATE: Begins Thursday, April 14, 2005 (thru June 16) Classes are weekly on Thursdays. for a total of 10 weeks. TIMES: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PLACE: North Park Baptist Church 5200 Park Ave. Bridgeport, CT (Directions will be sent) COST: $ student fee; DUE February 1, 2005 ; payable to SFH and should be sent to : Dr. McKinney Saint Francis Hospital 114 Woodland Street Hartford, CT (860) All other expenses of this class are supported by the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and Saint Francis Hospital. IMPORTANT: If, for any reason, you cannot attend the class, please call me immediately upon receiving this notice there is a long waiting list of others wanting to take the course. I look forward to seeing you in class! TO REGISTER: SIMPLY CALL OR WRITE TO INDICATE YOUR PLANS TO ATTEND: (860) mmckinne@stfranciscare.org

2 Pastoral Counseling Training Program Curriculum ACCESS TO RECOVERY Class One Assessment First impressions, persona, diagnosis. Screening, assessment. Difference between pastoral care and pastoral counseling. Understanding Psychology as "the study of the psyche, or soul". CRITERIA PART 1: A Guide to assessing who qualifies diagnostically to participate in the ACCESS TO RECOVERY program. Clinical Handbook of Pastoral Counseling, edited by Robert Wicks, Richard Parsons, Donald Capps / 1985 Paulist Press A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy, P. Scott Richards and Allen Bergin / 1997 American Psychological Association Class Two Structure Building a pastoral counseling recovery structure. Persona / Symptoms of dependency. Psychologies relationship to things spiritual. Background and understanding of Jungian Psychology and Addiction (Correspondence between Jung and Bill W.) Composition of the 'soul'; complexes, persona; shadow; conscious, unconscious. Deeper understanding of addiction. Triggers of chemical use. CRITERIA PART 2: What is the threshold of diagnosis? When do ministries provide adequate support for recovery before or after clinical interventions? Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Abuse: Challenges and Responses for Faith Leaders. Nov National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information. SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. Class Three Shadow Issues Owning the parts of us that are hard to accept: good and bad. Exploring the shadow (neglected, hidden) part of the personality. How this part of the personality is often behind typical issues in people's lives as they come into counseling. Their effect on marriages, groups, committees, families. Consultation, Collaboration and Referral. The mechanics of when and how to refer to other mental health professionals. Multicultural Issues, African American families and counseling; faith settings and presuppositions, gender issues Psycho spiritual healing and growth.

3 Multicultural Health : The Health Status of Minority Groups in Connecticut published in 1999 by the Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, CT Class Four Recovery Psychology and Process Alcohol and drug (Addiction) psychology, intervention, including 12-step programs and spiritual resources. Local resources also covered. Depression (assessing, interventions, medication overview). Confidentiality; Ethics and Counseling; Religious / Spiritual approach to depression; Use of spiritual interventions (prayer, scripture, support groups, worship services, mentoring). Crisis Counseling: theory and practice of interventions; the minister as a crisis counselor, need for referral resources, boundaries concerning when to refer. Crisis Counseling ; Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series by Howard Stone / 1993 Augsburg Fortress Press A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy, P. Scott Richards and Allen Bergin / 1997 American Psychological Association Class Five Families / Relationships Men and Women s Issues Families ; family systems; understanding and working with families. Including the family in recovery process. Medical Family Therapy by Hepworth, Dougherty, McDaniel / 1992 Basic Books Friendship. Sexuality. Relationship issues Class Six Introduction to Unconscious Collective Implications to the Unconscious Dynamics of Congregational Life that Hinder Recovery Individual Implications to the Unconscious Dynamics of a Personality that Hinders Recovery Class Seven Faith Based Recovery Responses Congregational and Individual Responses The basics to group work. Developing 12-step programs. Dealing with projections, transference, counter transference. Anxiety and stress in contemporary culture; It's impact in the ministry setting; Taking care of the pastoral counselor in facing stress; contemporary research on the effects of stress and methods of stress reduction (relaxation, meditation, prayer); spiritual resources in addressing anxiety.

4 Four Ways to Include Drug Prevention In Your Religious Programs: A Guidebook for Faith Leaders. National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information. Pathways to Prevention : Guiding Youth to Wise Decisions. Office of National Drug Control Policy Class Eight Spiritual Topics, Interventions and Resources Guilt, Forgiveness, Grace, Love, Blaming, Scapegoating Worship, Support Groups, Accountability Groups, Mentors Implementation of a Faith Based Recovery Program : The Basics PART 1 Screening and Assessment Documentation of Your Program Faith-Based and Community Organizations : Essential Partners. Library Search, SAMHSA s NCADI Library. info@health.org Class Nine Grief Responses to Loss and Grief Ritual and practices to honor grief Typology (Introversion, Extroversion, Thinking, Feeling, Perceiving, Sensation) Myers-Briggs Type Inventory. How to understand and use typology. Strategies of dealing with individual typologies in light of one's own type. Group work and typology Manual : A Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. by Isabel Briggs Myers and Mary McCaulley / 1988 Consulting Psychologists Press. Implementation of a Faith Based Recovery Program : The Basics PART 2 MENTORING Referral and Placement Simple Documentation of Outcomes Class Ten Endings Termination of counseling; Issues of Ego; Community Resources for referral and training, Options for your religious group to maintain collaborative relationship with behavioral health resources. Managed Care; City / State Services ; Non-profit Health Care Systems.

5 Multicultural Health : The Health Status of Minority Groups in Connecticut published in 1999 by the Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, CT. Crisis Counseling ; Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling Series by Howard Stone / 1993 Augsburg Fortress Press Implementation of a Faith Based Recovery Program: Advanced Issues This program is a collaboratively sponsored program by the Saint Francis Academy for Clinical Pastoral Training and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Faculty for Academy: Dr. Marcus M. McKinney, director of pastoral counseling at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT., Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, UCONN School of Medicine, Fellow, American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselor in Connecticut, Baptist Minister. Dr. Robert S. Henderson, director of pastoral counseling center in Glastonbury, CT., Diplomate in American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Connecticut, Supervisor American Association of Clinical Pastoral Education. UCC Minister. Other Faculty from the Academy will contribute to the class content and lectures. TO REGISTER: SIMPLY CALL OR WRITE TO INDICATE YOUR PLANS TO ATTEND: (860) mmckinne@stfranciscare.org