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Project-Based Learning Guidelines for Health Sciences Students: An Analysis with Data Mining and Qualitative Techniques
Published on: December 9, 2022
Transformational education: exploring the lasting impact of students' clinical pastoral education experiences
Heather Vanderstelt1, Alida van Dijk1, Simon Lasair2
1Spiritual Care, St. Joseph's Health Care London, London, ON, Canada.
Abstract:
"Thank you for that experience and for the ways it continues to shape who I am and how I interact in all of my life." (S20). There has been limited research validating Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) as a learning approach to date, however, the anecdotal evidence supporting the transformative value of CPE is abundant, as demonstrated by this student response. This quality improvement project engages a thematic cross-sectional analysis of 34 students' self-evaluative responses reporting the lasting impact of their CPE training. From the survey responses a thematic map was developed highlighting six themes of lasting impact: Spirituality, Psychotherapy, Agency, Self-Inter, Self-Intra, and Story/Narrative. These six themes overlap and intersect to provide a point of what we call "SPE alchemy"-the perfect conditions for lasting impact and transformation.
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