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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Mark Allison's CPE Program, at the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center, has been featured in several recent news articles. The most recent article hightlights the trasformative training an Iraq war veteran received through Mark's program and how that transformation impacts the lives of other veterans.
Michael McFall of the Salt Lake City's Desert News writes: "Iraq war veteran Perry Schmitt, 50, has learned to let go of his depression by listening to the grief of other former soldiers.
Schmitt was a chaplain in Iraq during the worst years of the insurgency. He witnessed 46 of his friends and compatriots die in his unit, the 1st Stryker Brigade's 25th Infantry. He returned to the U.S. furious and full of questions about why he returned and they didn't. But then he was introduced to the Clinical Pastoral Education residency program at Salt Lake City's Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
"I got my life back," he said Thursday in the medical center's crowded chapel, which was full of friends and family there to wish him well after graduating from the yearlong CPE program.
Schmitt and 19 other Utahns, most of whom have previously served as Army chaplains, joined the program last September to return to chaplain work and to get on with their lives.
To view the entire article click, here
You can also view a television news segment on Mark's program by clicking, here
Posted by freeman at August 3, 2009 2:14 PM
