Professional Development IV -  HUMAN RELATIONS
Monday and Wednesday, 9:50 am - 11:05 am
Classroom 8-9, Herrman Learning Center
Spring Semester, 1999

Rabbi Julie S. Schwartz


The goals of Human Relations can best be understood within the context of
the other required practical rabbinics/human relations courses.  The second
year Workshop in Practical Rabbinics introduces the student to the 
fundamentals of rabbinic officiating and pastoral functioning.  Using the
Rabbi's Manual as a source book, the student first learns the "mechanics" in
order to have a general outline and structure within which he or she can then
begin to practice.

The third year core course, Human Relations,  provides the theory which
undergirds and ultimately deepens the student's efforts.  After this more
rigorous immersion in the theoretical, the student returns to actual 
application in the fourth year practical courses:  C.P.E., Walk-in Clinic,
or Hospital Visitations.  Finally, the student turns again to the text of 
the Rabbi's Manual in the fifth year Senior Practicum and wrestles with the
multiple rabbinic issues inherent in life cycle events and the role of the
rabbi in modern life.

Thus the goals of Human Relations are:

  1)  to provide theoretical bases for understanding individual/family
      behaviors;

  2)  to demonstrate basic techniques for responding to a variety of pastoral
      care needs;

  3)  to prepare the student to deal appropriately with common life issues 
      facing congregants;

  4)  to describe Jewish teachings and attitude towards pastoral care.


Course Requirements

Attendance, participation, and completion of the reading assignments are
required.  The class will include a take-home midterm exam and a final exam.
The student's grade will be based upon each exam and class participation.


Class Topics and Reading Assignments 

Reading assignments are to be completed for the class session immediately 
following each listing. Guest speakers' topics and dates are tentative.


Monday, January 25:           Introduction to Pastoral Care as a Discipline

Reading:
Kennedy, Eugene.  On Becoming A Counselor.  The Continuum Publishing 
     Corporation:  New York, NY, 1988.  pps.  23-82.
Clinebell, Howard.  Basic Types of Pastoral Care and Counseling.  
     Abingdon Press:  Nashville, 1992, pps.  72-102.  (Chapters from 
     Clinebell are on reserve)

Wednesday, January 27:        Techniques of Pastoral Care

Reading:  Clinebell, pps.  170-182.

Monday, February 1:           Practicum

Reading:  Kennedy, pps. 89-163.

Wednesday, February 3:        Beyond Words and Toward Dialogue 

Monday, February 8:           February 3, continued.

Reading: Katz, Dr. Robert.  Pastoral Care in the Jewish Tradition.  Fortress
     Press: Philadelphia, 1985, last two chapters.  (Book is out of print, 
     some copies may still be available in the Bookstore, copies of the 
     chapters will be available for student use from Carolyn DeYoung.) 

Wednesday, February 10:       Pastoral Care in the Jewish Tradition


Students may wish to begin the reading from Friedman at this time.

Wednesday, February 17:       Emotional Dynamics 

Reading:
Friedman, Edwin H.  Generation to Generation.  The Guilford Press:  New York,
     1985.  pps.  11-193.

Monday, February 22:          Introduction to Family Systems Theory  

Reading:  Friedman, pps. 193-277.

Wednesday, February 24:            Family Systems cont.                         

Reading:  Friedman, pps. 277-311.

Monday, March 1:              Family Systems cont.

Wednesday, March 3:           Marriage and Family Structure  
   
Monday, March 8:              Marriage and Family Structure
 
Reading:
Litvak, Richard M.  "Rabbinical Counseling Strategies for Facilitating
     Grief," Journal of Reform Judaism, Vol 41:3, Summer 1994.  pps.25-39.

Reading:
Worden, J. William Ph.D.  Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy.  Springer 
     Publishing Company:  New York, 1982.  pps.  7-63.

Wednesday, March 10:          Dynamics of Grief and Mourning

Reading:  Worden, pps.  65-115.Complicated/Special Types of Losses

Monday, March 15:             Practicum 

Reading:  Kennedy, pps.332-346.  Clinebell, pps.  183-215.

Wednesday, March 17:          Suicide and Crisis Intervention
   
Monday, March 22:             Practicum 

Reading:  Clinebell, pps.  310-322.

Wednesday, March 24:          Assessment and Referral         

Monday, March 29:             Practicum

Readings for April 12 will be provided by Rabbi Schwartz.
 
Monday, April 12:             Domestic Abuse   
 
Wednesday, April 14:          Addictions and Recovery       
     Outside readings will be assigned.

Monday, April 19:             Addictions and Recovery (Continued)    

Wednesday, April 21:          Inclusion Issues

Monday,  April 26:            Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual
			      Abuse

Wednesday, April 28:          Establishing Boundaries

Monday, May 3:                Pastoral Care for the Elderly  
     Guest:  Rabbi Cary Kozberg, Wexner Heritage Village

Wednesday, May 5:             Practicum

Monday, May 10:               Counseling Ethics

Wednesday, May 12:            Conclusions