The goal of Person-Centered Spiritual Visitation Training is the development of personal confidence in the visitation ministry. Specific objectives are:
- To become aware of oneself as a minister and of the ways one’s ministry affects people.
- To utilize proper infectious control measures to ensure the health and safety of patients and themselves.
- To become aware of the strengths and resources of one’s religious tradition and how that impacts another person.
- To understand and utilize the clinical method of learning.
- To learn to utilize support, confrontation, and clarification for the integration of personal attributes and pastoral functioning.
- To understand the theological issues arising from experience and to enhance the interface between theology and the behavioral sciences in understanding the human condition.
- To become aware of how one’s attitudes, values, and assumptions affect one’s ministry.
- To develop the ability to work as a pastoral member of an interdisciplinary team.
- To become aware of how social conditions and structures affect the lives of others and oneself.
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