Campus: Mulgrave
Mode: Face to Face
Delivery Notes:

This unit will focus on pastoral and spiritual care of persons, patients and families in a multi-faith, multi-disciplinary setting. A schedule pre-recorded introductory seminars, One virtual faith community visit, and two student organised faith community visits, and three supervised reflection sessions will be undertaken over the semester. Students will be required to reflect on their experience and demonstrate their learning about the practices and rituals of the faith group they visit and their understanding of the needs of patients, family members and communities. The context of care will be hospitals, other healthcare facilities and faith communities during times of crisis, illness, suffering, death and dying. Areas of cultural differences within the practices of each faith group will be highlighted. Assessment tasks will evaluate these themes contextually, vocationally and theologically, develop guidelines for reflective practice as pastoral care practitioners in this setting and thus provide an opportunity for integrative reflection.

Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:

  1. demonstrate a critical awareness of the multi-religious themes that influence current pastoral and spiritual care practice in hospital, healthcare and community settings;
  2. identify the ways in which a multi-religious setting influences the practice of spiritual care and reflect upon how this in turn influences their own practice of care;
  3. describe, evaluate spiritually and explore through theological reflection, the essential elements of care offered from a multi-faith perspective within community, faith and healthcare settings;
  4. articulate, theologically integrate and illustrate from within their own practice, belief and faith identity their responses to the diversity of beliefs and practice of individuals and families;
  5. demonstrate the ability to communicate in a team and group context their understanding of pastoral care interventions in a multi-cultural, multi-religious setting.
  6. apply learning and current research to a theological, pastoral and systemic critique of the context where they offer pastoral care.
Contact hours 36
Total time commitment 150
Start date 26 Jul, 2021
Census date: 17 Aug, 2021
End date: 12 Nov, 2021
Academic staff: Dr Christopher Turner
Textbook(s): No textbook is required for this unit.

Unit code: DP3022S

Unit status: Archived (New unit)

Points: 18.0

Unit level: Undergraduate Level 3

Unit discipline: Pastoral Theology and Ministry Studies

Delivery Mode: Face to Face

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