College of Pastoral Care

• Online Learning Center

• Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)

• Supervisory Residency Program

• Department of Studies in Jewish Pastoral Care

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Online Learning Center

• Premium products - Purchasable Courses 
  (To purchase one or more courses, click here.)

• Complimentary products - Downloadable Resources

Premium Products-Purchasable Courses

HealthCare Chaplaincy introduces a new approach in continuing education for chaplains, clergy, counselors, educators, health care professionals and others with online courses that:

• Bring up-to-date subject matter to you at your convenience
• Add to, or refresh, your professional skills
• Provide opportunity for dialogue with peers

Courses

• “What Chaplains and Clergy Need to Know About Cultural Self-Awareness” created by the Rev. Dagmar Grefe, PhD, Manager of Spiritual Care Services/ACPE Supervisor, Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles; Templeton Visiting Scholar, HealthCare Chaplaincy
  
  This course contains up-to-date, relevant information for chaplains, clergy, and other professionals on developing cultural self-awareness.  Cultural self-awareness is awareness of interactions of cultural groups, and awareness of the psychological processes that occur automatically and impact on our social behaviors.  Social psychology provides a framework for understanding why human beings categorize others, develop stereotypes, and respond to others in automatic ways.  Included in this online course are methods to improve cultural self-awareness.  The information is based in psychological research and theory.

• “What Chaplains and Clergy Need to Know About The Confused Patient: Delirium and Dementia” created by David A Harrison, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington; Templeton Visiting Scholar, HealthCare Chaplaincy
  
  This course contains up-to-date, relevant information for chaplains, clergy, and other professionals on the often overlooked and under-diagnosed disorder of delirium.  It also contains information about, and useful clarifying comparisons with, dementia, because delirium and dementia are often confused one for the other.  Case studies provide examples of the risk factors, signs, and potentially life-long negative impacts for patients with delirium, as well as the progression of dementia on patient and family members.  Recommended intervention strategies for patients and families of patients with delirium and dementia are included in this course.

Price: $40 per course or two courses for $70.

To purchase one or more courses, click here.

Courses that are in development for future release will cover palliative care, mental health issues in hospitalized patients, Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy, chaplaincy leadership, and listening and communication skills, along with other topics. These courses will contain up-to-date, relevant information for chaplains, clergy, and other professionals on topics from medical and psycho-social-spiritual professionals.

Each of these courses:

• Contains an online, self-directed learning module that you can access as often as you like, at your convenience, for up to one year.
  - Contains bookmarks, so that you can close the course and resume your learning later from that place. 
  - Allows for repeated course completions to reinforce learning. 
• Includes an invitation to participate in a facilitated, online, community of practice for peer to peer learning.
• Provides a certificate of completion, accessible and printable after the learner completes the course at least once. 

For more information about these new courses, please contact kjankowski@healthcarechaplaincy.org

We welcome proposals for new courses. Please contact jkytle@healthcarechaplaincy.org

Complimentary Products - Downloadable Resources

• PlainViews® –  the e-newsletter for chaplaincy and other spiritual care providers published twice a month
• Practical Bearings –  a series of bibliographies and critical reviews of the important books, articles and other publications on the theory and practice of pastoral care. HealthCare Chaplaincy thanks the John Templeton Foundation for its generous support.
•  “Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy – An Overview” by expert trainer the Rev. Sue Wintz --  a starting point for individual chaplains or groups who wish to adopt some variant of this system. “In health care today, it is essential to be able to show predictable outcomes from chaplaincy care,” says the Rev. Jon Overvold, Director of Pastoral Care and Education at North Shore University Hospital.
• Tools that help improve patient care through improved cultural competency:
  • A Dictionary of Patients’ Spiritual & Cultural Values for Health Care Professionals
  • Cultural & Spiritual Sensitivity – A Learning Module for Health Care Professionals
• For Community Religious Professionals – Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide to learn to minister safely and effectively to survivors of disaster events.
• Published and other research content from the Spears Research Institute on professional multifaith chaplaincy, religion, spirituality, and health
• HealthCare Chaplaincy Today e-newsletter – published once a month
• The Beacon bulletin – published once a quarter
• Audio files– Chaplain Educators Share Wisdom and Multifaith Skills
  
  • Professional Chaplain Certification: Requirement and Process
    The Rev. George Handzo, BCC 
  • Pastoral Care to the Dying
    Rabbi Naomi Kalish, BCC
  • Explorations in Korean/Asian and American Cultures for Pastoral Care
    The Rev. Eun Joo Kim, BCC
  • Forgiveness: What It is and Is Not, and How to Do It
    The Rev. Dr. John Bauman, D. Min, BCC
  • Pastoral Care and End-Of-Life Issues for Muslim Patients and Their Families
    Imam Yusuf Hasan, BCC
  • Spontaneous Custom-Made Prayer
    Rabbi Bonita Taylor, BCC
• HealthCare Chaplaincy video oral history – personal stories of visionaries and change-makers for spiritually centered health care