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Pastoral Counseling
Guidance for Those Who Wish to Guide
For individuals who wish to use online educational pastoral opportunities to gain skills and expertise so that they can go on to serve the counseling needs of undergraduate students face a number of challenges. This does not mean that this is not a valid and appropriate method of learning, merely that those engaged in any form of distance learning that leads to accreditation within the field of counseling must be attentive to a number of specific challenges. This paper examines some of those challenges.
One of the key challenges faced by this type of student is to learn to differentiate pastoral counseling and psychological counseling within a Christian context from mainstream psychotherapy. This is a complex series of negotiations for anyone to make, and it is especially challenging to accomplish in the relative isolation of online...
Online learning is an excellent medium for conveying factual information and, to a somewhat lesser extent, for helping students learn how to articulate their own beliefs.
What online learning is generally less good at is helping students understand in a nuanced way how other individuals' arguments and beliefs differ from their own in ways that can help them come to deeper understanding of their own beliefs. While most online courses contain an element that requires students to post opinions about a designated topic and to engage in some degree of online conversation, the members of any particular online class are likely to be relatively similar to each other, which means that there is likely to be a relatively low degree of intellectual diversity. This may serve to reinforce the ideas and beliefs that each student comes into the class with rather than allowing each student to extend her/himself…
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