Admission Process

Prerequisites:  Baccalaureate degree and or professional equivalent.  Currently enrolled in the seminary.  Ordination, religious profession, ministerial background and/ or active membership in a faith community.

Complete and send the following requirements NEED MORE INFORMATION? to the CPE Teaching Supervisor: Contact:  CPE Application form (available at the THE CLINICAL PASTORAL PBTS receptionist’s office) BUKAL Life Care & Counseling Center  A 3-5 page autobiographical narrative, Office Address: West Baptist Church EDUCATION CENTER OF including some aspects of your Naguilian Road, corner Quezon Hill Road 2 BAGUIO spiritual/religious journey and your Baguio City reasons for wanting CPE at this time. Tel. Nos.: 09333020373 Diversity in Community  A list of three learning goals you have email: info @bukallife.org for CPE. Experiential Learning for Ministry  Any CPE supervisory and self www.pbts.net.ph Formation evaluations. www.bukallife.org  Successfully complete the interview process.  Sign the Contract for Learning.

A JOINT VENTURE OF THE PHILIPPINE BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY & BUKAL LIFE PASTORAL CARE & COUNSELING CENTER History Clinical Pastoral Education was pioneered in the 1920’s by  Ministry Skills Development: minimum of 3 students. Classes maybe held at the Anton Boisen, Richard Cabot, Helen Flanders Dunbar and Through professional presentation and supervised requester’s premises. others as a means of training persons for ministry through practice opportunities offered by a CPE Supervisor, the integration of pastoral theology with the actual practice pastoral care staff and other interdisciplinary Tuition Fee: P 5, 500.00 of pastoral care (psychology). CPE provides a clinically professionals. Application/Screening: By appointment supervised learning environment for qualified seminarians, Class Schedule: clergy and lay persons interested in pastoral formation, skill August 16-October 8, 2010 (2nd Quarter) Theological Integration: development and theological integration through reflection  October 18-December 10, 2010 (3rd Quarter) on ministry to persons in crisis. Through individual and group focused theological March 21-May 28, 2011 (Intensive CPE) reflection on life-based experience. The Clinical Pastoral Education Center of the Philippine CPE Supervisors Baptist Theological Seminary was pioneered by Dr. Alfredo Training Opportunities Cabrera in the 90’s and was later revived by Dr. Anne Rev. Dr. Raymond Lawrence has been a minister for 50 Windus in the year 2001. Both of them were pastoral care Intensive Summer CPE Program years, first as a Methodist and later as an Episcopalian. He and counseling professors of PBTS. Rev. Debbie Miller, an served three successive congregations in Virginia and APC certified Chaplain directed the center in 2006 and was A ten-week program which begins on March and continues Tennessee, after which he began work in the clinical assisted by Rev. Joel S. Aguirre, an ACPE trained Chaplain. through May. It consists of a minimum of 400 hours of pastoral field. Since 1969, he has been engaged in training In the year 2009 Rev. Aguirre was given the privilege to supervised ministry and training. The CPE intern will clergy in the art and science of pastoral counseling and manage the center and sought accreditation with the spend eight hours per week in group learning, and 20-30 psychotherapy. He has directed training programs at St. College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy (CPSP) hours per week in the church/hospital providing pastoral Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, New York of New York, USA. In June 2010, the BUKAL Life Care care and counseling to patients, their families and staff. Methodist Hospital, and most recently, 15 years at New and Counseling Center was conceptualized to serve as the Each student will have 10 hours of individual supervision York Presbyterian Hospital. He has written and published main ministry center and laboratory for the CPE students during the course. The weekday group time will include: extensively in the area of pastoral psychotherapy and social that will serve the community. clinical presentations by students, topic seminars, and a ethics. Also, he is the General Secretary of the College of group process seminar each week. The number of students Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy of USA. Since its accreditation, our CPE Center became wider and accepted into this program is limited, so please apply as ecumenical in its perspective and training--welcoming all soon as possible. Students will receive one unit of CPE Rev. Joel S. Aguirre is the resident CPE Teaching faith traditions for the advancement of professional credit/ 4 units of Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary Supervisor, he was trained with the Association of Clinical chaplaincy and pastoral care. (PBTS) academic equivalent for this 400-hour course. Pastoral Education (ACPE) in USA, a board certified professional clinical chaplain and a CPE Supervisor with Mission Extended Part-time CPE Program the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy The mission of CPE as stated by the College of Pastoral (CPSP) of New York, USA. Also, he is a member of the Supervision and Psychotherapy is to foster: An eight weeks program consisting of 240 hours of Psychological Association of the (PAP). • Experienced based theological education supervised ministry and training for persons able to make a which combines the practice of pastoral care part-time commitment in learning through clinical method. Miss Celia P. Munson is the CPE co-facilitator and the with qualified supervision and peer group CPE classes and group meetings will be scheduled at night Co-Director of BUKAL Life Pastoral Care & Counseling reflection and which is grounded in a person time during weekdays and hospital ministry hours are Center. She was educated with the Philippine Baptist centered approach to religious ministry. flexible to the student's schedule. The number of students Theological Seminary and trained with the North American accepted into this program is limited. Students will receive Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention as a The CPE Process half unit of CPE credit/ 2 units of PBTS academic Disaster Relief Chaplain. Her forte is on Crisis Counseling In the CPE process, students have variety of opportunities equivalent for this 240-hour course. May be offered upon and Intervention. to reflect on their cultural clinical experience with the request of a denomination or congregation with a supervisors, peers and other professions. Accreditation Our CPE adopts the standards and is accredited The primary components of CPE focus learning in three Ministry Centers areas: by the College of Pastoral Supervision and  Ministry Formation: Province: Psychotherapy (CPSP) of New York, USA. Through verbatim presentations of pastoral visits, Benguet General Hospital interpersonal group life (IPG), topical didactics and Baguio Medical Center Notre Dame De Chartres Hospital individual supervision with a CPE Supervisor. DSWD-Haven Center for Women Baguio City Jail Pangasinan Province: Bayambang District Hospital Medical Center Specialist Group Hospital & Trauma Center