PC403 is offered by Bible College of Victoria. This award is accredited through the Australian College of Theology (ACT). The ACT is a national consortium of theological and Bible colleges in Australia and New Zealand which has Government approval for its awards. Bible Colleg of Victoria is a member of the ACT and prepares candidates for these awards, as well as preparing students for Bible College of Victoria awards.
(from the Australian College of Theology Undergraduate Manual, 2004).
(a) To acquaint candidates with various aims and methods of pastoral care
(b) To help candidates identify and develop people helping skills, so as to deliver pastoral care with the candidate's own empathetic involvement;
(c) To provide candidates with opportunities to see skills modelled and to role play, with supervision, such skills themselves, so as to enable them to help persons pastorally...
In the topics studied below, attention should be paid not only to the needs of those in care but the carers' own lives.
Note
Sections A and B are weighted approximately 40% and 60% respectively.
Stairs, Jean, 2000, Listening for the Soul, Fortress Press, Minneapolis.
Jacobs Michael, 1999, Swift to Hear, Darton, Longman and Todd, London.
It will also help your study considerably if you can buy or borrow one or two other books from the bibliography.
Main Texts
Stairs, Jean, 2000, Listening for the Soul, Fortress Press, Minneapolis.
Jacobs Michael, 1999, Swift to Hear, Darton, Longman and Todd, London.
Recommended Books for further reading
Adams, Douglas E., 2002, Children Divorce and the Church, Abingdon, Nashville.
Augsburger David W., 1996, Helping People Forgive, Westminster John Knox, Nashville.
Buxton, Graham, 2001, Dancing in the Dark, Paternoster, Cumbria.
Carr, Wesley, 1997, Handbook of Pastoral Studies, SPCK, London.
Chant, Barry 2002, Walking with a Limp, a charismatic approach to suffering, Openbook, Adelaide.
Cloud, Henry and Townsend, John, 1999, Boundaries in Marriage, Strand, Sydney.
Couture Pamela D, and Hunter Rodney D., 1995, Pastoral Care and Social Conflict, Abingdon, Nashville.
Dann, Bucky, 2002, Addiction, Pastoral Responses, Abingdon, Nashville.
Dawn, Marva, 2000, The Unnecessary Pastor, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids.
De Paula, J Raymond, 2002 What we know and What You Can do about Depression, John Wiley and Sons.
Everett, Craig, (Ed), 2001, Divorce and the Next Generation, Perspectives for Young Adults in the New Millennium, Hawthorn Press, New York.
Friberg, Nils C. and Lasser, Mark R., 1998, Before the Fall, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville.
Gerkin Charles, 1999, Introduction to Pastoral Care, Abingdon, Nashville.
Goodliff Paul, 1999, Care in a Confused Climate, Longman and Todd, London.
Groff, Kent Ira, 2000, The Soul of Tomorrow’s Church, Upper Room Books.
Harvey Robert W and Benner, David G., 1996, Understanding and Facilitating Forgiveness, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids.
Jacobs, Michael, 2001, Still Small Voice, SPCK, London.
Kirkwood, Neville A., 1995, Pastoral Care in Hospitals, E J Dwyer, Sydney.
Kirkwood, Neville A., 2000, Pastoral Care to Muslims, Haworth, Oxford.
Koenig Harold G, and Weaver, Andrew J 1998, Pastoral Care of Older Adults, Fortress, Minneapolis.
McGrath, Joanna, & McGrath, Alister, 2001, Self Esteem, the cross and Christian Confidence, Inter-Varsity Press, Leicester.
Moran, Francis M., 1997, Listening, A Pastoral Style, E J Dwyer, Alexandria.
Oates, Wayne E., 1974, Pastoral Counselling, Westminster, Philadelphia.
Patton, John, 1983, Pastoral Counselling, A Ministry of the Church, Abingdon, Nashville.
Roukema, Richard W., The Soul in Distress, Haworth Press, London.
Shelp, Earl E. and Sunderland, Ronald H., 2002, Sustaining Presence, A Model of Caring by People of Faith, Abingdon, Nashville.
Ten Brook, Gretchen, 2000, Broken Bodies, Healing Hearts, Reflections of a Hospital Chaplain, Haworth Press, New York.
Tidball, Derek J., 1999, Builders and Fools, Inter-varsity Press, Leicester.
Vandecreek, Larry Ed., 1995, Readings in Research Spiritual Needs and Pastoral Services, Journal of Pastoral Care Publications.
Vanier, Jean, 1998, Becoming Human Paulist Press, Mahwah.
Vanier, Jean, 1998, The Scandal of Service Continuum Publishing, New York.
Wardle, Terry, 2001 Healing Care Healing Prayer, New Leaf Books, Orange.
Weaver, Andrew J 2002, Counselling Families Across the Stages of Life, Abingdon, Nashville.
Woodward J and Pattison, Stephen, 2000, The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.
Wright, Frank, 1996, Pastoral Care Revisited, SCM, London.
Zurheide, Jeffry R., 1997, When Faith is Tested, Fortress Minneapolis.
Reference Journals and monographs
Ames S., Ed. Ministry Society and Theology, Bulleen, Victoria.
Beasley Murray P., Ministry Today, Richard Baxter Institute for Ministry, Surrey.
Carr, Wesley (Ed), 2002, The New Dictionary of Pastoral Studies.
Curkpatrick, Stephen (Ed) Ministry, Society and Theology, Australian Association of Supervised Pastoral Education, Mulgrave, Victoria.
Honeycutt, R H. (Ed), Review and Expositor, Louisville, Kentucky.
Howard Marshall I, (Ed), Evangelical Quarterly, Falmouth, Cornwall.
Nuncarrow Tony, (Ed), Ministry Digest, Unley South Australia Mediacom.
Strunk, Ed & Orb, (Ed), Journal of Pastoral Care.
Please remember distance students living in Australia have access to the Morling Library, including the books in the Distance Reserve.