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6 Provide religious/spiritual resources that are appropriate to given care recipients, their spiritualities/religions, their contexts, and their goals. 8 Facilitate care recipients’ own theological/spiritual/philosophical reflection. PPS 6 is all about the spiritual/religious resources. These are texts, objects, prayers, meditations, and more. You will need to recount a time when a resource was offered to a…

5 Provide spiritual care to persons experiencing loss and grief. For PPS 5 the candidate must demonstrate competency with the theories of loss and grief beyond just death. I’ve already mentioned the field of Thanatology but I cannot recommend enough how those studies have direct and effective import into the work of chaplaincy, there is…

2 Establish, deepen, and conclude professional spiritual-care relationships with sensitivity, openness, and respect. PPS 2 asks for examples where the well-being of a care recipient has been improved. You should be able to articulate one desired outcome for your care and then provide an example how your care supported that outcome. Then provide more examples…

1 Establish, deepen, and conclude professional spiritual-care relationships with sensitivity, openness, and respect. PPS 1 is another competency that could take up a whole blog section on its own. It might be the best competency to re-introduce Bowen and the concept of spiritual self-differentiation. “Spiritual self-differentiation helps this chaplain honor the narrative and contextual “truth’”…

7 Function within the APC/NACC/NAJC Code of Ethics. PIC 7 asks the candidate to demonstrate how they function within the Common Code of Ethics[1] There are many ethics codes a chaplain is subject to and the candidate should be able to demonstrate at least one difficult ethical issue using the Code of Ethics. Some examples…

5 Use appropriately one’s professional authority as a chaplain. 6 Advocate for the persons in one’s care. PIC 5 and PIC 6 fit together well as the chaplain appropriately exercises authority while also demonstrating how that authority is wielded for care recipients. Much of CPE education is devoted to teaching authority as it relates to…

3 Attend to one’s own physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. 4 Respects the physical, emotional, cultural, and spiritual boundaries of others. PIC 3 comes along almost as if it recognizes how stressed out you might be from writing essays on PIC 1 and 2. The candidate must address the actions they take to attend to…

2 Articulate ways in which one’s feelings, values, assumptions, culture, and social location affect professional practice. Your own self-reflection is not only important for your chaplaincy, it is also one of the main skills that are looked for when being hired.[1] PIC 2 dovetails well once one’s strengths and limitations are identified. It moves onto…

1 Identify one’s professional strengths and limitations in the provision of spiritual care. PIC1 is about self-reflection on one’s strengths and limitations. The essay should demonstrate building on one’s strengths and redressing one’s limitations. At this point, it may be helpful to complete a few personality tests. Two of the ones that I have spent…

6 Articulate how primary research and research literature inform the profession of chaplaincy and one’s spiritual-care practice. ITP 6 is assessing how the candidate has incorporated research into their practice. There has been a considerable increase in the importance of this competency in recent years. Transforming Chaplaincy has been a main driving force in this…