Catholic · Emmaus course
Treating the Whole Person — How the Catholic Christian Meta-Model Transforms Clinical Care
Clinical training gives you partial lenses: one for the inner life, another for behavior, the family, the brain. Each is true, but none is the whole person.
NBCC CE · 1 clock hour · Counseling Theory and Practice
With Dr. William Nordling
- Length
- 1 hr
- Lessons
- 1
- Level
- Intermediate
- Version
- Catholic
- Price
- Free
About this course
Most clinical training hands you a powerful but partial lens: one school for the inner life, another for behavior, another for the family, another for the brain. Each is true. None is the whole person. This course introduces the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person, the integrative framework developed at Divine Mercy University, and shows how it brings the fragments together into a single, coherent vision of the people you serve.
In one focused lesson built around an 18-minute lecture, you will see how the Meta-Model delivers four concrete benefits: an enriched vision of the person, richer diagnosis and treatment planning, more personalized care for each unique client, and a renewed sense of your own calling as a clinician. You will leave able to widen your case conceptualization beyond a symptom-based model and to weave a client’s relationships, vocation, and search for meaning into the work, while fully respecting the worldview and freedom of every person you serve.
Earn 1.0 NBCC clock hour (Counseling Theory and Practice). Designed for graduate-level counselors and pastoral care professionals.
Who this course is for
Graduate-level counselors (Catholic mental health professionals)
The target learner is not a generic “counselor” but a clinician who wants their faith and their practice to be one thing rather than two.
Also for Pastoral care professionals.
Common questions
- Is this going to ask me to impose religion on clients?
- The closing line about respecting every client’s worldview answers the unspoken objection before it becomes a reason not to enroll.
From the course syllabus
Most clinical training hands you a powerful but partial lens: one school for the inner life, another for behavior, another for the family, another for the brain. Each is true. None is the whole person. This course introduces the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person, the integrative framework developed at Divine Mercy University, and shows how it brings the fragments together into a single, coherent vision of the people you serve.
In one focused lesson built around an 18-minute lecture, you will see how the Meta-Model delivers four concrete benefits: an enriched vision of the person, richer diagnosis and treatment planning, more personalized care for each unique client, and a renewed sense of your own calling as a clinician. You will leave able to widen your case conceptualization beyond a symptom-based model and to weave a client’s relationships, vocation, and search for meaning into the work, while fully respecting the worldview and freedom of every person you serve.
Curriculum
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Module 1
Treating the Whole Person — How the Catholic Christian Meta-Model Transforms Clinical Care
- 1.Lesson: Four Benefits of the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person
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