ACPE | CPSP

ACPE CPE Program
Kettering Medical Center offers Clinical Pastoral Education programs that are fully accredited ACPE/CPSP.

Offerings Include:

• Ten week summer intensive
• Seven-month extended
• Nine-month stipend residency
• Second year stipend residency

Program Goals

• Continuing development of pastoral identity.
• Increased self and interpersonal awareness.
• Continuing development of assessment skills and spiritual care.
• Training in trauma care and pastoral crisis intervention.
• Integration of theory and theology with the practice of ministry.
• Professional development in a selected pastoral specialty.

The Kettering Medical Center Network (KMCN)
The setting at KMCN provides for an excellent learning environment for CPE. KMCN is both a healthcare and educational institution. The combined Network has over a thousand hospital beds offering broad services including neurology, ambulatory care, psychiatry, urology, physical medicine, intensive care and many other services on the cutting edge of medicine. CPE is based on an adult education model. Students are invited as full participants in the learning process and therefore expected to take full responsibility for their development and growth. CPE recognizes each participant as having a unique style of learning and are encouraged to develop specific learning goals. Curriculum includes, but not limited to, specific clinical assignment, presentation of case study, weekly critical reflection, interpersonal relations and individual supervision, and didactics. In the spirit of Seventh-day Adventist health care ministry, we strive to be innovative and to convey God’s love in a caring environment.