CRISIS PASTORAL CARE
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.