The College of Pastoral Supervision & Psychotherapy is a theologically based covenant community, dedicated to "recovery of the soul" and promoting competency in the clinical pastoral field.
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I remember my weekend trips to the Reading Room of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue as a college student… the feel of the manila cards in the old fashioned oak drawers to find the call number… the metal wheeze and clank and final thump of the dumbwaiter bringing up the carton of books as I waited expectantly for my number to come up… the glow of the glass reading lamps on the tables which sat just slightly out of arm’s length and the marble floor which did its job of making sure that no one arrived unannounced. Looking back I remember too the anonymous community of people that gathered around those tables reading, doing research every weekend. Some of us were regulars but all of us knew we were about a very important business: the business of learning.
The CPSP community is a community of people dedicated to learning. Our unique governance structure which places all members within small covenant communities called chapters insures that we commit ourselves to ongoing professional accountability and learning about our craft as well as about ourselves. No one can be certified nor maintain their credentials without this demonstrated commitment.
An important adjunct to learning our craft as Clinical Pastoral Supervisors is our familiarity and use of resources in the field. In addition to the classic texts of the clinical supervisory tradition, there are a host of theological and social science resources that can help add new wineskins to the library of even the seasoned CPE Supervisor.
With that in mind, I am inviting you to join me and my colleague, Mary Davis, to help contribute towards an online library for CPSP which will provide an annotated bibliography on clinical pastoral supervision. We have begun by annotating our own individual bibliographies and would like others to contribute. The goal is to create a living library from everyone’s experience which can be shared within the community. Each bibliographic entry, besides citation information will list a short summary of the source, bulleted points of the source’s strengths and weaknesses and recommended use.
Each of us has come across sources which have been particularly helpful. We are inviting you to share them by emailing your favourite citations for inclusion. There is no restriction on what kind of source. Please feel free to contribute names of books, periodicals, as well as videos or creative sources only that you restrict your submissions to the topic of clinical pastoral supervision. Any duplicate entries will be integrated into the final listing; entries may be edited for purposes of brevity.
Please email your entries to me. Please submit your citations no later than the end of October so that we will have time to produce a finalized draft in time for the March plenary. Please give the full citation(s) as follows:
Author: Last name, First name
Title of book or journal with volume and date
Publisher
# of pages
Summary 5-10 sentences
Bullet points of strengths and weaknesses
If everyone in CPSP were to send in just two sources, imagine the library we would have. Thank you for participating;it is this kind of shared community that is a hallmark of CPSP and sets us apart. We look forward to hearing you.
Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at September 30, 2007 10:49 PM
