Hunkering Down: My Story in Four Decades of Clinical Pastoral Education - Softcover

Summers, Thomas A.

 
9780966471304: Hunkering Down: My Story in Four Decades of Clinical Pastoral Education

Synopsis

This volume is an integration of the author's autobiographical story with that of the seventy-five-year-old history of the clinical pastoral education movement in the United States. The writer demonstrates an appreciation for how his early background offered a strong influence on his vocational development as a supervisor of CPE. His mental health ministry reaches from a time span of huge state mental hospitals to that of advocacy in the community.

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About the Author

The author, who is a United Methodist minister, was a mental hospital chaplain and clinical pastoral teacher for 39 years prior to his retirement from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health in 1999. Academic degrees were gained from Wofford College (BA), Emory University (M.Div.), and Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (D.Min.). He served as president of the Association of Mental Health Clergy in 1985-86 and is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the South Carolina Mental Health Association.

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