Pastoral Care Focus Area:
Option for Extension Students
This focus area offers a solid background and working knowledge of skills for women and men who minister in parishes, hospitals, schools, youth programs, and other settings which require them to initiate and sustain relationships with others in which a high degree of support and challenge are offered. The purpose of this focus area is not to train professionally certifiable pastoral counselors, but to equip pastoral ministers with a set of basic skills, along with the accompanying conceptual and experimental background, to respond well during the everyday counseling demands of their ministries. Extension students who want to choose this focus area should take, with their learning group, the six theological core courses, and two context of ministry courses: Faith and Culture and Faith Development and Spirituality in addition to the following courses for this focus area.
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Introduction to Pastoral Care and Counseling (LIM 849)
3 credits
Required on-campus course. This
course is regularly offered as a three-week
course in the LIM summer session.
This course is a religious and social
psychological introduction to the basic
stance of pastoral care and counseling. It
explores how pastoral counseling is like
and not like “secular” counseling practice
and articulates the unique characteristics
of forms of counseling calling themselves “pastoral.”
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Counseling Theories (EDGRA 830)
3 credits
This course presents an overview of
nine approaches to counseling and
psychotherapy. Topics include therapeutic
process, client/therapist relationship, and
specific techniques and procedures
applicable to individual and group
counseling. Offered through the
Department of Education at Loyola, the
course aims to develop a balanced view of
various therapies and the practical
techniques in the therapeutic process.
An equivalent graduate course may be
transferred in from an accredited college or
university. A copy of the graduate course
description must be sent to the LIM
Graduate Studies Committee for transfer
credit approval before the student registers for
this course.
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Counseling Practice (EDGRA 835)
3 credits
This course is designed to acquaint students with the special methods and techniques found in effective counseling. Offered through the Department of Education at Loyola, it is based on personality and counseling theory, with special emphasis on the logical extension of these research areas into practice. The course also covers ethical issues and local referral sources and agency personnel. An equivalent graduate course may be transferred in from an accredited college or university. A copy of the graduate course description must be sent to the LIM Graduate Studies Committee for transfer credit approval before the student registers for this course.
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Clinical Pastoral Education (LIM 897)
3 credits
Arranged through a local CPE supervisor accredited by the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, this practicum experience is usually located in a hospital, prison, or other pastoral counseling setting. For students in the pastoral care focus area, one unit of CPE acts as the capstone course, in place of the course, Pastoral and Educational Praxis. Students must arrange and apply for the unit of CPE at an approved site and also contact the LIM on-campus manager to register for Loyola graduate credit (Loyola tuition is dicounted because students will pay the CPE tuition directly to their local site).You must be currently registered as a Loyola student while you are taking your CPE for the course to count toward your degree. Additional course work is required for LIM graduate credit. Consult the Association of Pastoral Clinical Education web site (www.http://acpe.edu ) for a directory of approved sites. The CPE placement must be approved in advance by LIM instructors before registering for the course. Please contact your LIM faculty adviser prior to arranging for CPE.