Gordon J. Hilsman is a Board Certified Chaplain and CPE supervisor, with over forty years working in hospital, addiction treatment, mental health and hospice settings. He is the author of Spiritual Care in Common Terms.
A CPE Primer offers both highlights and deep insights to anyone interested in clinical pastoral education. Novices will find basic descriptions of assignments and processes, which may decrease anxiety enough for learning to proceed. Those progressing toward maturity as cpe educators will find a broad template to test their own emphases and gaps. Teachers of any process education method will be able to explore the results of a mature, 100-hundred-year movement that is ever changing around its core values and convictions. Hilsman has written a quite useful primer. -- The Rev. Steven Ivy, Ph.D. ACPE Certified Educator Director of Community, Practice, and Member Development