A Video Postcard from NCTS-East - from Francine Hernandez
Greetings from the National Clinical Training Seminar in Morristown, NJ, was held Nov. 7-8!Rev. Dr. Francine Hernandez is Diplomate Supervisor with CPSP, former President of CPSP, and currently serves...
View ArticleCynthia Olson Named Associate Secretary for CPSP -- by Perry Miller, Editor
Raymond Lawrence, General Secretary, is announcing the appointment of Cynthia Olson as Associate Secretary for CPSP. In this role, her primary duty will be to assist the General Secretary in any...
View ArticleComments on Dr. Raymond Lawrence's Nine Clinical Cases: The Soul of Pastoral...
While reading Raymond Lawrence’s newest book, Nine Clinical Cases:The Soul of Pastoral Care and Counseling, I was aware of disturbing contrast. Recently I was reviewing a number of websites conveying...
View ArticleChaplaincy Alive!: An interview with Terry R. Bard, Editor in Chief, Journal...
The CPSP Communications Committee is pleased to announce the release of the third edition of Chaplaincy Alive!, a video-podcast, featuring Terry R. Bard, the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pastoral...
View ArticleFrom Dover, Massachusetts: Reflections on the A. K. Rice's 2015 International...
Arriving during the midnight hours at Dover, Massachusetts for a six-day international residential training was an experience I will not soon forget.The conference, presented by the A.K. Rice...
View ArticleEditor's Note: CAPPT Accreditation of UAMS Clinical Pastoral Education...
The following announcement appeared on the (UAMS) website:"CAPPT Accreditation of UAMS Clinical Pastoral Education Training Program"On June 10, 2015, the Clinical Pastoral Education Training program at...
View ArticleThe Current Crisis in Healthcare Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care -- Part 3---By...
The Current Crisis in Healthcare Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care(An Extended Review of Spiritual Care in Practice: Case Studies in Healthcare Chaplaincy George Fitchett & Steve Nolan, Editors)Part...
View ArticleANNUAL NCTS-WEST, OCTOBER 18–20, 2015--Roles, Boundaries, and Vulnerability...
Join us for this year’s NCTS-West at Christ the King Retreat Center in Sacramento, California. This will be an intensive, experiential, residential conference intended to expand your clinical...
View ArticleEDITOR'S NOTE: A Book that Examines" Being Called" from a variety of...
Publisher described in its email announcement as:"Scientists and scholars representing diverse disciplines and worldviews describe and interpret their experience of feeling called to a particular life...
View ArticleCPSP Cyber Meeting of the Governing Council Announced
Editor's Note: Bill Scar, CPSP President, sent the following message to all members of the CPSP Governing Council:To All Members of the CPSP Governing Council,Greetings!We now look forward to the...
View ArticleDates for the National Clinical Training Seminar-East Announced
Francine Hernandez, Coordinator for NCTS - East, announces the dates and venue for the gathering of the National Clinical Training Seminar-East.Please place on your calendar the dates of November 2-3,...
View ArticleEditor's Note: Doctors Fail to Address Patients’ Spiritual Needs by Dr ROBERT...
In an article posted in the NYTimes by Dr ROBERT KLITZMAN, M.D on August 13, 2015, Dr Klitzman, MD comments:"Eventually, my patient dying from cancer did speak with a chaplain. I noticed him visiting...
View ArticleA Silently Politicized Profession – by The Reverend Dr. Belen Gonzalez y...
Ever heard it said, “There are no politics in the chaplaincy profession,” Yeah right! I would like to believe that politics is not a constituent characteristic of the chaplaincy profession. However, I...
View ArticleTHE LOSS OF DONALD CAPPS--By Raymond Lawrence, General Secretary
The sudden death of Don Capps in an automobile accident has deprived CPSP, as well as the entire clinical pastoral community, of arguably the wisest voice of our generation in the field of clinical...
View ArticleCPSP's New Website
CPSP now has a new website, CPSP.ORG. No. It’s not the one shown here. It was created some where around 1998 and certainly not the one we have been using over the last twelve years or so. You are now...
View ArticleNATIONAL CLINICAL SEMINAR - SOUTH ANNOUNCES ITS FALL 2015 EVENT
Robert Griffin, Coordinator for National Clinical Training Seminar - South (NCTS-South), announces the dates and venue of the training event:Monday-Tuesday, October 26 & 27, 2015Holiday Inn, 638...
View ArticleSCHEDULE: NCTS-East, Nov. 2-3, 2015
As previously announced, National Clinical Training Seminar - East will meet November 2 - 3, 2015 at the Loyola Retreat Center, Morristown, New Jersey.Howard Friedman and a portion of his team...
View ArticleEDITOR'S NOTE: Grandparenting Track Offered by Commission on Accreditation of...
The Pastoral Report took notice of a recent news release posted on the Commission for the Accreditation of Pastoral and Psychotherapy Training (CAPPT) website that is relevant to all CPSP Clinical...
View ArticleHELP WANTED: Innovative Possibilities for Clinical Military Chaplain Training...
Recently, I have been talking with a number of military chaplains. Many have never had even one unit of CPE although they would like to. They know that clinical pastoral training would benefit their...
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