UMS : Unit: DP3024L

Content

This Supervised Theological Field Education unit focuses especially on providing students with the opportunity for practising people-helping skills in a ministry context. Students learn about and experience pastoral care and visitation in a field experience under supervision of an STFE Workplace Director. Students are given a range of contexts for pastoral care and visitation and provided opportunity to practise using pastoral resources appropriately in a variety of care and visitation situations. Professional ministry standards including safeguarding underpin this unit.

Unit code: DP3024L

Unit status: Approved (Major revision)

Points: 18.0

Unit level: Undergraduate Level 3

Unit discipline: Pastoral Theology and Ministry Studies

Delivery Mode: Practicum

Proposing College: Australian Lutheran College

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Learning outcomes

1.	Demonstrate an integrated understanding of Child Safeguarding and Professional Ministry Standards as they apply to pastoral care and visitation in a ministry context
2.	Demonstrate competencies in pastoral visitation and care and counselling in a ministry context
3.	Reflect theologically and pastorally on the practice of visitation and care in a ministry context
4.	Reflect critically on the contribution of the field placement to spiritual and personal development, and readiness for vocation
5.	Document evidence of learning about pastoral care and visitation and self-awareness that has resulted from the field placement

Unit sequence

Course relationship: A Supervised Theological Field Education (STFE) unit in both the Bachelor of Theology and Bachelor of Ministry

Prerequisites: 36 points in the discipline of Pastoral Theology and Ministry Studies (DP) | Prior to commencement of placement, completion of learning module on the University code of conduct as well as safeguarding processes required by the LCA

Pedagogy

This STFE learning is informed by relevant literature, Workplace Director observation and mentoring, and student reflective integrative responses.

Indicative Bibliography

Becker, Arthur. The compassionate visitor: resources for ministering to people who are ill. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg, 1985.
Clebsch, William A., and Charles R. Jaekle. Pastoral care in historical perspective. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1983.
Haugk, Kenneth C. Christian caregiving: a way of life. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg, 1984.
Lutheran Church of Australia. Commission on Worship. Rites and resources for pastoral care. Edited by David A. Schubert. Adelaide, SA: Openbook, 1998.
Luther: letters of spiritual counsel. Vol. 18 of The Library of Christian Classics. Theodore G. Tappert, ed. & trans. London: SCM, 1955.
Oden, Thomas C. Classical pastoral care. Vol. 1–4. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1987-1994.
Peterson, Eugene H. 2011. The pastor: a memoir. New York: Harper Collins.
Savage, John. Listening and caring skills: a guide for groups and leaders. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1996.

Assessment

Type	Description	Word count	Weight (%)
Project Report or Project Journal	Plan and develop a visitation program	1000	20.0
Workplace evaluation	Regular reflection and debriefs about people-helping skills and the use of appropriate resources	1000	20.0
Report	Reflections on visitations	3000	60.0
Report	A record of placement work including specific reflection on Child Safe Guarding and Professional Ministry Standards in the context of pastoral care and visitation	0	NGP

Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by Maggie Kappelhoff on 5 Oct, 2020

Unit record last updated: 2021-06-07 08:43:52 +1000