Draft* Syllabus - Pastoral Care: Self, Family, Congregation KNP2548HF Fall 2013

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1 Draft* Syllabus - Pastoral Care: Self, Family, Congregation KNP2548HF Fall 2013 Class - Wednesdays: 11-1pm Role Play See schedule Instructor: Pam McCarroll pam.mccarroll@utoronto.ca Course Description This course introduces students to practices and theories of pastoral care with an emphasis on self awareness and pastoral practice in an intercultural context. The first part of the course will focus on students learning theory through learning about themselves in context. Students will explore their own families and cultures of origin and their social identities as a means to learn the related theories and to consider ministry implications and develop self awareness. The second part of the course will provide hands-on opportunities to develop practices of care with intercultural awareness while learning theories relating to grief and loss, death and dying, ethical decision making, spiritual care. Lecture, discussion, small group work, mid-term paper, case studies Theological and Practical Curricular Outcomes In successfully completing this course a student will meet the following outcomes: Religious Heritage - identify, define and describe at least 3 family systems principles in relation to one s spiritual/theological tradition and personal development - describe and compare principle theories and practices in pastoral care and counseling Cultural Context - demonstrate sensitivity to 3 generational family systems of cultures and traditions different from one s own - demonstrate links between family cultures & larger social-ethnic cultural contexts - show an emerging understanding of what it looks like to work pastorally within multicultural/intercultural contexts - openness to learn from cultures/perspectives different from one s own Personal Spiritual Formation - gather and select information from one s 3 generational family and illustrate an understanding of how family systems principles provide ways of interpreting one s own motivation, functioning, leadership an faith formation - willingness to assess one s own personal and spiritual/theological formation - demonstrate ability to self assess one s functioning in a pastoral role Capacity for Ministry - demonstrate ability to self evaluate and assess evaluate and assess one s functioning in relation to peers and provision of pastoral care - identify how one s family of origin influences how one functions in ministry - identify one s vulnerabilities and strengths for ministry with recommendations for addressing vulnerabilities - effective verbal and non-verbal expression in pastoral care communications - ability to make appropriate referrals * - This is draft only. Please check with professor for further confirmation of texts.

2 Course Requirements and Evaluative Criteria COURSE POLICIES Policies for courses are contained in the TST Basic Degree Handbook and the Knox Student Handbook. In particular note: Cell Phones: Cell phones can be disruptive to the classroom experience. Students, therefore, should turn off or set their phones to silent and refrain from using them while in class. Cell phone use is permitted only for medical professionals who are on call and for students who need to be in constant contact with ill family members or minors. Students who meet either of these requirements should inform the professor prior to class. Use of Technology: Laptops and other computing devices may be used in the classroom for note taking purposes only. The use of the internet is not permitted while class is in session unless it is part of a specific class activity. Students wishing to text message, search for images, fact check etc. should do so during the break or outside of class. Much of the learning that goes on in the classroom is founded upon mutual disclosure that takes place between the instructor and the student and between students. Parties outside of that learning community have not committed themselves to this relationship of trust. For this and other reasons, permission to record lectures in audio format is granted for use by registered students only. Video recording is not permitted without the written permission of the instructor. Recordings and notes of class lectures may not be electronically reproduced, posted or distributed without the written permission of the instructor. Late Policy: one grade (4 marks) deducted per week late. Completion of Course work: All course work must be completed by the due date of final case studies paper (December..). Only in the case of illness (with a note from a doctor), bereavement or other unusual circumstances will an SDF extension be considered and this must be authorized by the Faculty. A request for a SDF extension must be submitted in writing by the last day of the class to the Registrar or the Director of Academic Programs who will refer the matter with a recommendation, to the Faculty for final decision. Attendance and lateness: Consistent and timely attendance is required. If a student is unable to attend a class the professor is to be informed by . More than 2 absences will result in failure to pass the course. Habitual lateness will be regarded as absence. correspondence: Papers and assignments are accepted in hard copy only, preferably on recycled or re-used paper. Communication by can ONLY take place through UTOR accounts. Plagiarism Policy: See TST Basic Degree Handbook and the Knox Student Handbook.

3 Evaluation Book Report/reflection 10% Read Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology: Dance of Han, Jeong, and Salim by James Newton Poling and HeeSun Kim (Pickwick, 2012). Submit a 2-3 page reflection paper on your learning and the applicability of this learning to pastoral practice. Due September 25 Self as Caregiver Analysis Paper- 25% Write a summary of your awareness of your family origin, your culture of origin and your social identity and how these identities impact your theology and your pastoral care practice. Use the genogram tool and theory of family/culture of origin, the social identity inventory, the helping styles inventory, your Profile of Ministry (as applicable) and other tools to help you in the analysis. Identify areas of gifts/skills/comfort and areas of ongoing growth/ triggers/blind spots and provide recommendations for further integration and competency development. 10 pages. Due October 30, 2013 Self as Caregiver Analysis Presentation 10% Before the end of reading week students will have met in a threesome to present and discuss the contents of each others papers. Please see Presentation Feedback Form. See for an online genogram format. Role Plays - 20% final mark In a small group engage in regular role plays and discussion throughout classes to demonstrate learning (5%). Role play a pastoral conversation for the class that demonstrates pastoral skills (attentive listening, open ended questions, safe and ethical practices, appropriate understanding of situation, etc.) and awareness of pastoral theories (regarding death and dying, grief and bereavement, crisis, spiritual counseling, etc). Be prepared to talk about personal and contextual awareness and process in the pastoral scenario. (15%) Completed in class Case Study Intervention Report or Verbatim Report - 25% final mark Case Study Intervention Report Complete 2 Case Study Intervention Reports based on cases to be handed out in class. Be prepared to demonstrate self awareness and how this impacts your care for the person/people in the case as well as other concepts discussed in class and in readings regarding pastoral care (developing an pastoral relationship, listening, grief, and bereavement, crisis care, spiritual counseling, use of rituals, etc.) Or Verbatim Report Visit someone in your congregation, in a nursing home or hospital. Follow the Verbatim Report template and analyse the visit from all the perspectives identified. Due Monday December 09, 2013 Participation - 10% - Regular attendance and engagement in course.

4 Class Schedule Week 1 Introduction and Overview Required: Lartey Introduction & chapters 1-3, pp Week 2 Family of Origin, Culture of Origin, Genograms Recommended: Richardson, Becoming a Healthier Pastor, Intro & PART 1, pp.iv-33 Richardson, Becoming a Healthier Church, pp Week 3 Family of Origin, Culture of Origin Responses to Anxiety and Triangles Recommended: Richardson, Pastor, chapters 3-10, pp Richardson, Church, pp Week 4 Family of Origin, Culture of Origin Sibling Order Recommended: Richardson, Pastor, pp Richardson, Becoming a Healthier Church, pp Week 5 Social Identity Inventory Required Reading - Handout: Injustice and the Care of Souls, ch. 1 & 3 Karen B. Montagno, Midwives and Holy Subversives, Brita L. Gill-Austern, Engaging Diversity and Difference Doehring, The Practice of Pastoral Care, chapter 6, pp Week 6 - Discerning your Preferences of Pastoral Caregiving Handout: Van Katwyk, Helping Styles Inventory Lartey chapter 4, pp Reading Week Week 7 Ministry of Presence - Developing pastoral relationships, attentive listening Required: Lartey, In Living Color, Intro & ch. 5-6, pp Stairs, Listening for the Soul, pp Recommended: Doehring, The Practice of Pastoral Care, Intro, ch. 1-4, pp Week 8 Ministry of Presence con t Required: Lartey Color, ch 7- pp Stairs Listening, ch. 3&4 pp Week 9 Spiritual counseling and care Required: Lartey, Color, ch. 8-9, pp

5 Stairs, Listening, ch. 5-7, pp & Epilogue, Appendix Recommended: Doehring, Practice, ch.5-6, pp Week 10 Loss and Grief - **Role Play Seminar 1-2 Required: Handout - Doehring, Practice, ch. 5-6, pp Recommended: Doehring, Practice, ch. 7-8, pp Week 11 Death/Dying and Crisis Care**Role Play seminar 1-2 Recommended: Doehring, Practice, ch. 9, pp Week 12 - Rituals of transition and closure **Role Play Seminar 1-2 TBC See Lartey chapter 8, case study Required Texts: Lartey, Emmanuel Yartekwei. In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling, 2 nd ed. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Poling, James Newton and Kim, Heesung. Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology: dance of Han, Jeong, and Salim. Eugene Oregon: Pickwick Pub., 2012 Stairs, Jean. Listening For the Soul: Pastoral Care and Spiritual Direction. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, Hand outs given in class Recommended Texts Doehring, Carrie The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach. Westminster John Knox Press, Kujawa-Holbrook, Sheryl & Karen B. Montagno, eds. Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care. Minneapolis: Augsberg Fortress Press, Richardson, Ronald W. Becoming a Healthier Pastor: Family Systems Theory and the Pastor s Own Family. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, Richardson, Ronald W. Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership and Congregational Life. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996.

6 Brief Bibliography Pastoral Care/ Pastoral Theology Clinebell, Howard. Types of Pastoral Care and Counseling: Resources for the Ministry of Healing and Growth, most recent edition (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991 or more recent). Cooper, Terry D., Dimensions of Evil: Contemporary Perspectives (Fortress, 2007) , Sin, Pride and Self Acceptance: The Problem of Identity in Theology and Psychology (Intervarsity press, 2003) Cooper-White, Pamela. Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, Gerkin, Charles V. An Introduction to Pastoral Care (Abingdon, 1997) Killen, James L. Jr., Pastoral Care in the Small Membership Church (Abingdon, 2005) Lartey, Emmanuel Y., Pastoral Theology in an Intercultural World (Pilgrim Press, 2006) Louw, Daniël J. and Takaaki David Ito, Ulrike Elsdörfer. Encounter in Pastoral Care and Spiritual Healing: Towards an Integrative and Intercultural Approach. LIT Verlag Münster, Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J., ed. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology (Blackwell Pub., 2012) Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J. & Gill-Austern, Brita L., Feminist and Womanist Pastoral Theology (Abingdon, 1999) Pattinson, Stephen. Pastoral Care and Liberation Theology, (Cambridge University Press, 1994) Patton, John. Pastoral Care in Context: An Introduction to Pastoral Care (Louisville, Westminster John Knox Press, 1993). Patton, John. Pastoral Care: An Essential Guide (Abingdon, 2005) Pembroke, Neil. Pastoral Care in Worship: Liturgy and Psychology in Dialogue. London: T&T Clark, Stevenson-Moessner, Jeanne. A Primer in Pastoral Care. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005.

7 Stone, Howard W., Crisis Counseling (Revised Edition), (Minneapolis Fortress, Thornton, Sharon G., Broken Yet Beloved: A Pastoral Theology of the Cross (Chalice Press, 2002) Van Katwyk, Peter. Spiritual Care and Therapy: Integrative Perspectives (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2003). Way, Peggy. Created by God: Pastoral Care for all God s People (Chalice Press, 2005) Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule, c. 590 CE. Family Systems Boers, Arthur Paul. Never Call Them Jerks: Healthy Responses to Difficult Behaviour. Virginia: Alban Institute, Friedman, Edwin. Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix: A Failure of Nerve. Seabury Books, 1999 and Friedman, Edwin H.. Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue. Guilford Press, 1985 or more recent edition. McGoldrick, Monica. Genograms: Assessment and Intervention, 2 nd ed. New York: Norton & Co., McGoldrick, Monica. You can Go Home Again. Borthon, Steinke, Peter L. Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times: Being Calm and Courageous No Matter What. Virginia: Alban Institute, Stevens, R. Paul & Phil Collins. The Equipping Pastor: A Systems Approach to Congregational Leadership. Virginia: Alban Institute, Suggested Movies for Genogram Reflection and Analysis Rachel Getting Married (2009) Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Bella (2011) Silver Lining Playbook (2012)