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History of CPE in the Philippines

Reviews the first 60 years of the Clinical Pastoral Movement in the Philippines.

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History of CPE in the Philippines

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  1. The History of the Clinical Pastoral Movement in the Philippines Bob and Celia Munson CPSP-Philippines 2024

  2. 2025 Will Be a Momentous Year 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of clinical pastoral training, under Anton Boisen 2025 also marks to 60th anniversary of the start of clinical pastoral training in the Philippines.

  3. Beginnings Clinical pastoral training in the Philippines started with the Research Committee of the Episcopal Church in the United States, in 1962-1963. For the Missionary District of the Philippines, it was decided to attempt a Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program at St. Luke’s Medical Center. This was a new idea and was considered “experimental” in the Philippines and for Asia.

  4. St. Luke’s Medical Center • SLMC started as a free clinic in Manila in 1903 as a missions effort of the Episcopal church. • It is now an elite hospital in the Philippines.

  5. J(ames) Albert Dalton and Mary Dalton • The Daltons were sent by the Episcopal Mission to work with St. Luke’s and establish a CPE program there. • They arrived in the Philippines on December 1st, 1964. • Mary worked with the Women’s Auxiliary and made it racially integrated for the first time. • Albert began networking with other organizations in the Philippines to partner in the “experiment.”

  6. Philippine Association of Clinical Pastoral Care (PACPC) • Several organizations joined with St. Luke’s in support of clinical pastoral care. • These included: • St. Andrews Theological Seminary • Union Theological Seminary • United Church of Christ-- Philippines • International Commission for Medical Care • Silliman University • Episcopal Bishops

  7. Start of CPE--- June 7, 1965 • The first group included 6 trainees -5 men, 1 woman -4 Filipinos, 1 Indonesian, 1 Indian • One of them, Narciso Dumalagan became of champion of clinical pastoral care in the Philippines and Asia. CPE gathering. Albert Dalton on left end of table. Calixto Sodoy center back with glasses.

  8. Del Carmen (front center) with Dr. Sim Dang-Awan (front right) Cirilo Del Carmen Late 1965, Del Carmen, a UCCP minister, returned to the Philippines after training in the US. He received provisional certification from the Council for Clinical Training. He began supervising training in Summer 1966.

  9. 1966-1969 1966. Dalton led CPE at St. Luke’s while Del Carmen led CPE at the Quezon Intitute (a tuberculosis sanitarium) Nars Dumalagan did a 1 year internship at St. Luke’s in Quezon City in 1966, and then was sponsored for more training at St. Luke’s in Houston, TX (1967-1968) By the late 1960s, the Daltons were finishing their time in the Philippines, and moved to Houston where Albert served at St. Luke’s.

  10. Nars Dumalagan with Raymond Lawrence in 2007 Narciso C. Dumalagan Nars was granted an internship at St. Luke’s in Quezon City, and then one at St. Luke’s in Houston, TX. Returning to the Philippines, he assumed the Executive Director of the PACPC in 1969 and maintained a prominent role in clinical pastoral care in the Philippines and Asia until his death in 2011.

  11. Organization of CPE in the Philippines 1965. PACPC (Philippine Association of Clinical Pastoral Care) 1981. Rebranded as CPCAP (Clinical Pastoral Care Associate of the Philippines). 1 year later the name changed to Pastoral Care Foundation (PCF). In the 2000s. Renamed the Clinical Pastoral Education and Care Foundation overseeing the AACPE (Asia Association of Clinical Pastoral Education). Presently the AACPE has 7 training centers in the Philippines and 4 abroad. (Two more are provisional).

  12. CPSP-Philippines (PBTS) CPSP-Philippines has its roots in the CPE program held at Phiippine Baptist Theological Seminary in Baguio City, Philippines. This had been taught for many years by superisors certified under various organizations. 2009. The supervisor was Joel Aguirre

  13. CPSP-PH (Bukal Life Care) • 2009. Bob and Celia Munson founded Bukal Life Care for crisis care for primary and secondary victims of Typhoon Pepeng and Tropical Storm Ondoy. • Later, Joel Aguirre joined and the group held CPE at PBTS in 2010.

  14. CPSP-PH (Bukal Life Care) • 2010 and 2011. Raymond Lawrence visited to support our efforts to develop a sustainable CPE program. • 2011. Raymond granted provisional status for our training center and SITs towards CPSP-Philippines.

  15. CPSP-Philippines • Officially Incorporated in March 2012. • First MOA between CPSP and CPSP-PH in 2015. • Second MOA between CPSP and CPSP-PH in 2019.

  16. Calixto Sodoy is still active as a CPE supervisor in Iloilo City. Simplicio Dang-Awan Jr., also in his 80s, is (mostly) retired and living in Manila. Where are they now? • The Daltons died in Vermont. Albert in 1993 and Mary in 2018. • Cirilo Del Carmen died in 2019. • Narciso Dumalagan died in 2012.

  17. Leadership • Sim Dang-Awan in orange, former military chaplain, and key in supporting CPE with CPSP-Philippines.

  18. CPSP-PH Today Presently, there are 8 fully accredited training centers with 1 more (in Cebu City) with provisional status. We presently have 7 with Diplomate status.

  19. This work is licensed undera Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.It makes use of the works ofKelly Loves Whales and Nick Merritt. Special Thanks to Raymond Lawrence of CPSP And Reynaldo Salo of AACPE

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