Just Counselling (5cr)

Objective

The student
- Is able to support individuals, family units and groups who face injustice to enable empowerment
- Is able to work with groups across the life span, linking personal and social problems
- Is able to be sensitive to the diverse spiritualities and faiths and can manage their pastoral counselling in an interfaith context
- Is able to be sensitive to differences of gender, sexual identity, dis-ability etc in offering pastoral care and Is able to link pastoral care to questions of (in)justice
- Is able to use resources from the Bible and Christian tradition in pastoral care and counselling and have awareness of resources from other spiritual and religious traditions

Content

- Pastoral counselling
- Group work methods in pastoral care
- Christian resources for pastoral care
- Different faith traditions and cultures and pastoral care