Clinical pastoral training

Clinical Pastoral Education (KSA) (engl. Clinical Pastoral Education , CPE), is a form of pastoral education . As a scientific method, the KSA belongs to pastoral psychology .

History and program

The method was founded in the United States in the 1930s by the Protestant theologian Anton T. Boisen . Originally a pastor, Boisen introduced psychological training as part of practical theology to Protestant theology studies. He himself was one of the first professors to teach pastoral psychology in the USA and developed the CPE model. KSA came in the 1960s in the Netherlands and from there in the years to Germany , where she pioneered by Hans Christoph Piper at the Medical School in Hannover was established.

In the KSA, pastors and pastoral workers gain experience in a specific field of practice such as hospital chaplaincy or prison chaplaincy . They hold conversations, of which progress logs are drawn up in retrospect . The concrete experiences are reflected in a group process and analyzed from a psychological and pastoral point of view. In addition to studying psychology, KSA courses are aimed at making the psychodynamic process within the candidate group the subject of learning. For this reason, a common time within the group is usually set at the beginning of the training.

KSA supervision trainings run over several levels and years. The candidates work in learning and teaching supervision . You complete the training with various degrees. The main degree is that of the supervisor . Teachers can further qualify for the status of teaching supervisor.

KSA training courses are offered in many countries. Their offers are often adapted to regional conditions. Approximation of the standards and equivalent degrees are sought. Pastoral care and practical theology received strong impulses in Germany and Europe from the KSA. In the USA the method is relevant for the qualification of theologians in hospital and prison chaplaincy , in military chaplaincy and police chaplaincy . There are KSA training centers in Australia and New Zealand . KSA institutes also exist in the Philippines , Malaysia , India , Hong Kong and Singapore .

Well-known German instructors

• Michael Klessmann
• Josef Mayer-Scheu
• Waldemar Pisarski
• Richard Riess
• Dietrich Stollberg

Well-known German training institutions

• German Society for Pastoral Psychology (DGfP) - KSA section.
• Pastoral care institute Bethel Center for special pastoral care in education and counseling Bethel Bielefeld
• Pastoral care seminar in Halle
• Pastoral Psychological Institute in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg e. V.
• Pastoral Clinic - Center for Clinical Pastoral Care Training of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover at the Hanover Medical School (MHH)
• Institute for Clinical Pastoral Training (KSA) of the Archdiocese of Freiburg in Heidelberg
• KSA working group - Pastoral Education and Pastoral Psychological Supervision - in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
• Institute for Clinical Pastoral Training in the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising
• Seminar for pastoral care training (KSA) in "Haus Birkach", Stuttgart
• Evangelical pastoral care / KSA at the Würzburg University Clinic in cooperation with the Catholic Clinical Pastoral Care in Würzburg
• Center for pastoral care and counseling of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , EKHN
• Pastoral care, training, further education and training in the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia , EKBO

literature

• Michael Klessmann, (Ed.) Handbuch der Krankenhausseelsorge , ISBN 3-525-62347-X , Göttingen 1996.
• Michael Klessmann: Pastoral Psychology. A textbook , ISBN 3-7887-2050-6 , Neukirchen, 2004
• Michael Klessmann: Pastoral care. Accompaniment, encounter, interpretation of life in the horizon of the Christian faith , ISBN 978-3-7887-2293-7 , Neukirchen, 2008
• Dietrich Stollberg / Richard Riess (eds.): The word that continues to work. Essays on practical theology in memoriam Kurt Frör , ISBN 3-459-01340-0 , Munich 1981
• Werner Becher, Alastair V. Campbell, G. Keith Parker: The Risks of Freedom. Documents from the founding congress of the International Association for Pastoral Psychology, International Council on Pastoral Care and Counseling , ICPCC, ISBN 971-8874-03-8 , Metro Manila, Philippines, 1993

supporting documents

1. ↑ https://www.acpe.edu
2. ↑ https://anzacpe.com
3. ↑ https://www.pastoralpsychologie.de
4. ↑ https://www.seelsorge.dbb-bethel.de
5. ↑ https://www.seelsorgeseminar-ekm.de
6. ↑ https://www.kirche-hamburg.de
7. ↑ https://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de
8. ↑ https://www.ebfr.de
9. ↑ https://www.bayern-evangelisch.de
10. ↑ https://erzbistum-muenchen.de
11. ↑ https://www.elk-wue.de
12. ↑ https://www.ukw.de
13. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from 23 August 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ https://www.ekbo.de