Outcomes to Be Attained in CPE

Ability to articulate central themes of her or his religious heritage and the theological understanding that informs one's ministry.
Ability to identify and discuss major life events and relationships that impact on personal identity as expressed in pastoral functioning.
Ability to demonstrate the ability to initiate helping relationships.
Ability to initiate peer group and supervisory consultation and receive critique about one's ministry practice.
Ability to risk offering appropriate and timely critique.
Ability to utilize the clinical method of learning to achieve his or her educational goals.
Ability to demonstrate the ability to integrate in pastoral practice conceptual understandings presented in the curriculum.
Ability to formulate clear and specific goals for continuing pastoral formation with reference to one's strengths and weaknesses.
Ability to recognize relational dynamics within group contexts.

Understanding of the pastoral role that is congruent with his or her values, basic assumptions, and personhood.
Ability to provide pastoral ministry to a variety of people, taking into consideration multiple elements of cultural and ethnic diversity, social conditions, systems and justice issues without imposing one's own perspectives.
Demonstrate a range of pastoral skills, including listening/attending, empathic reflection, conflict resolution/confrontation, crisis management, and appropriate use of religious/spiritual resources.
Ability to assess the strengths and needs of those served, based on an understanding of behavioral science and grounded in theology.
Manage one's ministry and administrative function in terms of accountability, productivity, self-direction, and clear, accurate clinical communication.
Demonstrate competent use of self in ministry and administrative function including: emotional availability, appropriate self-disclosure, positive use of power, a non-anxious and non-judgmental presence, and clear and responsible boundaries.
Establish collaboration and dialogue with peers, authorities and other professionals.
Demonstrate self-supervision through a realistic assessment of one's pastoral functioning.