Crisis pastoral care study programme qualifies for (learning outcomes):
Adoption of basic knowledge about people's behaviour in a variety of individual and collective crisis situations, especially those that occur suddenly.
Providing concrete forms of pastoral care: to families with children with special needs, to incurable/terminal patients, to those in mourning, to those stricken by disasters or adversities, to people suffering from existential meaninglessness.
Identifying risk factors, main psychological and social predispositions for developing self-destructive behaviour of risk groups and warning signs of people with a predisposition to suicidal behaviour, in order for timely prevention and rehabilitation.
Developing awareness of the inevitable crisis situations in life, and ensuring sensitivity and competence for volunteer engagement in spiritual assistance.
Developing awareness of disease and death through different aspects: anthropological, psychological, ethical, legal, medical, economic, religious, theological, pastoral and above all, human nature.
Development and dissemination of compassion, solidarity and emotional support particularly to those "affected by the crisis," with the aim of eliminating and/or reducing the feelings of despondency, panic and/or fear.
Training for professional spiritual guidance of official personnel for crisis situations: medical, firefighting, police and military.
Training for the church family mediation.
FAMILY PASTORAL CARE
Family pastoral care study programme qualifies for:
Bringing the Gospel teachings on marriage and family into complex social and moral pastoral situations, through critical analysis of circumstances in these areas.
Establishing dialogue and cooperation with various social institutions that are connected with marriage and family.
Promoting educational dimensions that are the foundation for the quality of marriage, and presentation of marriage as a dynamic reality that requires constant growth in quality.
Presenting sound teachings of the Catholic Church on sexuality and marital morality.
Critical and moral judgment of biomedical challenges faced by Christian spouses.
Initiating and/or supporting of civic initiatives connected with the protection and promotion of human life, especially with the education on natural methods of regulating marital fertility and responsible parenthood.
Raising awareness about the influence of parents on the psychological, social, emotional development of a child and its development of values.
Raising awareness about the impact of marital instability and divorce on the further development of a child and its views on marriage and family.
Developing forms of systematic work with families.