what is clinical pastoral education
Clinical pastoral education (CPE) is education to teach pastoral care to clergy and others.CPE is the primary method of training hospital and hospice chaplains and spiritual care providers in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.n underpinning theory of education that structures clinical pastoral education is the  Action-Reflection  mode of learning.
Depending on state requirements, they can be licensed as pastoral counselors or as marriage and family therapists. A pastoral counselor, like other types of mental health therapists, must hold a master's or doctoral degree in their field of study.