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New Certificate in Skills Enhancement for Spiritual Caregivers
Announcing the new experiential learning program leading to the Certificate in Skills Enhancement for Spiritual Caregivers
- For volunteers in hospitals, hospices, and rehabilitation and skilled nursing care facilities who provide emotional, spiritual and religious support and comfort to patients and families under the supervision of a professional chaplain.
Enhance your spiritual caregiving skills as a volunteer – complete one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education through HealthCare Chaplaincy, and earn the new Certificate in Skills Enhancement for Spiritual Caregivers.
You will learn through hands-on practice, clinical supervision and academic study how to listen to and attend to patients more effectively, including how to engage patients and their loved ones, establish rapport and maintain eye contact, pay attention and respond to both verbal and non-verbal communications, better understand what you are observing during pastoral encounters, and how you can best support the work of the chaplains and clergy with whom you collaborate in the spiritual care of patients and families.
Also you will expand your practical knowledge about grief and bereavement, health care decision-making, family support, conflict resolution, and cultural and religious diversity.
About the Certificate program:
- HealthCare Chaplaincy is accredited by and our Educational Supervisors are certified by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.
- The program involves 300 hours of supervised direct patient care (“learning by doing”) in a hospital setting and 100 hours of classroom work, study, interpersonal growth seminars and peer and faculty supervision, which accounts for approximately 20 hours a week.
- The spring 2012 semester runs from the end of January/start of February through May at a number of metro New York institutions: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, North Shore University Hospital, New York Hospital Queens, NYU Langone Medical Center, St. John’s Riverside Hospital, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center.
- Tuition is $850.
Apply now for the Spring 2012 course here.
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