PC700  Pastoral Integration Seminar     (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: PC608 or PC665, PC662. Prepares students to integrate psychology and spirituality in their own lives and work in pastoral counseling. Topics include unlearning; a central pastoral dimension; dragon riding lessons; turning the corner in the spiritual life; overcoming resistance to change; prayer and prayerfulness; theological reflection and discernment, treatment of abuse as a paradigm for conversion, and the working through phase of psychotherapy; grace, crisis, and faith. To be taken in the middle or near the end of the program. PC690 may not be taken concurrently.