Spiritual Care Specialist Trainer Orientation Announcement (This program is not available for NBCC credit)
Member Price
$$600
Non-Member Price
$$600
Spiritual Care Specialist Trainer Orientation Announcement with Aaron Pawelek
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
This 5-hour training will be held in zoom from 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm (EST).
Would you like to become a facilitator for the Spiritual Care Specialist Training Program? Our next orientation will be held from 12pm to 5pm EST on Friday, August 22nd via Zoom. Facilitators must be ACPE members and have 10 years of experience as a licensed psychotherapist or be a CPE educator with at least 10 years of chaplaincy experience and demonstrated knowledge of the behavioral health field.
The Spiritual Care Specialist Training Program (SCS) is a 48-hour course supporting congregational clergy and lay pastoral caregivers, chaplains working in a variety of institutional settings, and allied caregivers of faith to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to help care-receivers effectively, ethically, and safely. Issues and topics covered include:
· Our Images of Spiritual Care
· Ethics of Spiritual Care
· Marriage and Family Issues in Systemic Perspective
· Spiritual Assessment and Diagnosis
· Listening in the Service of Healing
· Grief and Loss
· Mental Health and the Role of the Faith Community
· Understanding and Responding Effectively to Domestic Violence
· Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care
· Substance Abuse, Addiction, and the Role of the Faith Community
· (Coming Soon) From PTSD to Moral Injury
To register, please contact Aaron Pawelek at 603-893-6767 X107 or pawelek@nepastoral.org
All care-givers interested in learning more about issues relating to mental health (addiction, trauma, domestic violence, etc) are welcome. Volunteer, professional, volunteer, licensed, non-licensed, and student care-givers are invited to attend.
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Aaron Pawelek, LICSW
New England Pastoral Institute
Aaron Pawelek is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist with the New England Pastoral Institute in Salem, NH. Prior to that he was Director of Training at the Pastoral Counseling Center in Dallas, TX. Aaron received his Master of Social Work and Master of Theological Studies degrees at Boston University. He chaired the task force responsible for developing the new Pastoral Care Specialist program and is excited to share it with caregivers of all faith backgrounds.