Whatever Happened to "CPE" -- Clinical Pastoral Education? by Robert Charles...
Entire draft manuscript: copyright, 1999, Robert Charles Powell. webpage circulation.Whatever Happened to "CPE" -- Clinical Pastoral Education? Robert Charles Powell, MD, PhD keynote address honoring...
View Article'Cooperative Inquiry' in Pastoral Care: Some Thoughts on Dr. Rodney J....
In pastoral care, counseling, and psychotherapy, has there been a paradigm "shift," as suggested by Hunter (Christian Century October 17, 2001), following Patton (1993), following Kuhn (1962)? Or has...
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Robert Charles Powell, MD, PhDThe First Annual Helen Flanders Dunbar (1902-1959) Awardfor Significant Contributions to the Field of Clinical Pastoral Training3/21/02, Virginia Beach, Virginia, at the...
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References1. Marcia Dunbar-Soule Dobson, Dr. Dunbars daughter, quoted in G. Allison Stokes, "Dunbar, Helen Flanders," Notable American Women: The Modern Period, Barbara Sicherman, and Carol Hurd Green,...
View Article'Emotionally, Soulfully, SpirituallyFree to Think and Act' by Robert Powell,...
The Helen Flanders Dunbar (1902-59) Memorial Lecture on Psychosomatic Medicine and Pastoral Caredelivered 11/2/99, at Columbia Presbyterian Center of theNew York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New...
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Religion in Crisis:Am I my brothers keeper?a third report out ofthe 8th Asia Pacific Congress on Pastoral Care and Counseling,held 7-11 August 2005 in Hong KongDear Editor:When fate decreed that I...
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At the last Asia Pacific Congress on Pastoral Care and Counseling, in Perth, Australia, in July 2001, the Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Y. Lartey outlined prophetically some of these problems we now face. He spoke...
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8th Asia-Pacific Congress on Pastoral Care & CounselingFORMATION AND TRANSFORMATION DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY OF SPIRIT AND SOUL: RELIGION IN CRISIS AND CUSTOM By Robert Charles PowellOpening...
View ArticleA Call for Chaplaincy that is NOT Measured, Weighed, or Cut Down to Size:...
Dear Editor:A recent episode of "Agnes," a refreshingly insightful US comic strip, has the heroine expounding on the topic of a "moral compass" and ending up noting her "faith yardstick," "devotional...
View ArticleA Call for Chaplaincy that IS Measured, Weighed, and Cut Down to Size -BUT By...
Thoughts upon Chaplain Anton Boisen's "Empirical Theology": Honoring the 60th anniversary of Boisen's Problems of Religion and Life Dear Editor:Recent efforts to measure, weigh, and cut chaplaincy down...
View ArticleHow to Function as a Knowledgeable Professional AND Retain One’s Soul By...
[CPSP Plenary 2007 – introduction to Heffernan’s acceptance of HFD Award] “How to Function as a Knowledgeable Professional AND Retain One’s Soul”-- Comments Honoring Chaplain Henry G. Heffernan –...
View ArticleDiscerning Spirituality in Everyday Life – and Allowing Oneself to Be...
– Comments Honoring the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Thornton – delivered at the Plenary in North Little Rock, AR, on 31 March 2008on the 65th anniversary of the publication of [Helen] Flanders...
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"Clinical Pastoral Psychology of Religion: A ‘Peculiar and Dynamic Play between the Mundane and the Sublime’.” 1– Comments Honoring the Rev. Dr. Orlo Christopher Strunk, Jr –delivered in Virginia...
View ArticleTolerance and Encouragement: Among the Roots of the Clinical Pastoral...
“We believe we should make a space for one another and stand ready to midwife one another in our respective spiritual journeys.”“We commit to being mutually responsible to one another for our...
View ArticleReport from India: A Pastoral Care Department that Runs Its Own Hospital...
Spiritual care comes from the heart after the head has done its homework.palliative care … should form part of the care of all who are ill, mentally or physically. How many clinical chaplains of the...
View ArticleTolerance and Encouragement: At the Core of the Modern Clinical Pastoral...
Tolerance and Encouragement: At the Core of the Modern Clinical Pastoral TraditionRobert Charles Powell, MD, PhD"The idea of an organized church ... marks the close of a living spiritual movement. The...
View ArticleTolerance and Encouragement: Within a Covenant of Mutual Accountability---...
Tolerance and Encouragement: Within a Covenant of Mutual Accountability---Robert Charles Powell, MD, PhDThe College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy aspires to be “a supportive and...
View ArticleDEAR EDITOR: From Robert Charles Powell, MD, PhD
Dear Editor:Thank you for publishing Al Heniger's essay on The Evolution of Palliative Care. I wholeheartedly believe that devoted care is the obvious ideal model upon which to focus.Please let me...
View ArticleWhat about Pastoral Supervision of the Field of Clinical Pastoral Chaplaincy?...
What about Pastoral Supervision of the Field of Clinical Pastoral Chaplaincy?” – Comments Honoring the Rev. Dr. Kenneth Holt Pohly – delivered in Pittsburgh, PA, on 28 March 2012 at the Plenary of the...
View ArticleReport from India and South Africa: “Devotional Care”: Rethinking Clinical...
Report from India and South Africa: “Devotional Care”: Rethinking Clinical Pastoral Chaplaincy Training SitesRobert Charles Powell, MD, PhDCenters for Devotional Care: Places to Take Shelter at Times...
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