Clinical Pastoral Education With Its Projections In The Field -The Case of America and Turkey- Cover Image

Alandaki İzdüşümleriyle Hastanelerde Manevi Danışmanlık Eğitimleri -Amerika ve Türkiye Örneği
Clinical Pastoral Education With Its Projections In The Field -The Case of America and Turkey-

Author(s): Hatice Koç Kanca
Subject(s): Islam studies, Higher Education , Clinical psychology, Methodology and research technology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Karadeniz Teknik Üniversites - İlahiyat Fakültesi
Keywords: Psychology of Religion; Pastoral Counselling; Pluralism; Clinical Pastoral Education; Chaplain;

Summary/Abstract: Providing spiritual counseling services in hospitals started a century ago in America. Over time, this service first spread to Continental Europe and then to various Islamic countries. The execution of this service in the field, which is relatively new in Turkey, is under the responsibility of the Presidency of Religious Affairs. The prerequisite to be able to offer this service in hospitals in the USA is to complete the Clinical Pastoral Education, which includes 400 hours of practical internship and 8 months of theoretical training in the hospital itself. Although applied and theoretical trainings of the same nature are not obligatory in our country, studies in the field are getting richer day by day. In this context, it is meaningful to examine the nature and structure of these trainings through the example of the United States. However, these trainings, which are offered through a pluralistic paradigm, cannot progress with the same paradigm in the field. Therefore, these have theological and methodological problems for both students who are subject to spiritual counseling training with their Muslim identity as well as Muslim patients who receive this service. This study aims to raise awareness about these problems while drawing attention to the search for models of possible training plans to be revealed in the future regarding the services in the field. Also, it is aimed to compare the current pastoral counseling services in Turkey with the education and training opportunities at the hospitals in the United States in terms of paradigm and practice.

  • Issue Year: 9/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 358-378
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Turkish