Tandem Roles of Written Standards and Personal Virtue in Appraising Professional Practice

Maintaining acceptable practice in a professional organization depends heavily on two intertwining entities: written standards and personal virtue. The two in tandem, one maintained externally and collaboratively and the other guiding internally, either uphold professional accountability or allow practice to slide below acceptable association levels

In Search of Theory and Criteria for the Practice of Distance-Supervision

The growing ease and efficiency of using electronic media for adacemic education promises to bring significant benefits to the field o clinical education. It appears that now is the time for us to ask what professional standards may need to be changed to assure the strong formation of future pastoral caregivers and minimize any possibility of eroding quality in supervision

Beyond Virtue: The Growth of Spiritual Skills During Initial Pastoral Education

Virtue is as important in chaplaincy practice as it is in the areas of medical ethics, politics, education, and health care. A virtue perspective, mostly ignored for decades in a society determined to create a value-free educational system, is recently re-emerging as central to developing leaders who are persistently focused on what is best for the general public. How growth in virtue can be  recognized, however, remains a complex issue