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Welcome to the American Association of Pastoral Counselors website! This site provides information to AAPC members and the general public.
REFERRAL DIRECTORY
MEMBERSHIP and Certification INFORMATION
MEMBERS ONLY DIRECTORY (login required)
Online Dues Payment (NEW) CURRENTS Winter 2012
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AAPC ELECTION 2012
The Leadership Development Committee presents the following Ballot. E-Voting to begin February 20 through March 21, 2012. Paper Ballots have been mailed to all members who do not have an email on file.
PRESIDENT: Alice Graham, Ph.D. (Presently Vice President - Unopposed per Policy)
VICE PRESIDENT: Pamela Holliman, Ph.D. and David Sundell, D.Min.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CHAIR: Elizabeth Denham Thompson, M.Div. - (Unopposed per Policy)
To see Candidate Biographies and the Ballot just click on the Vote Button and Login.
Annual Conference - April 19-21,2012
National Conference Center, Leesburg, Virginia
(Leesburg is in the Washington Metropolitan Area - within easy access via Dulles Airport)
April 19-21, 2012
Conference Registration -- Click Here for Details
Make Room Reservations at the National Conference Center - Click Here
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Mission Statement
The mission of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors is to bring healing, hope, and wholeness to individuals, families, and communities by expanding and equipping spiritually grounded and psychologically informed care, counseling, and psychotherapy.
Service and Values
The Association lives out its mission by serving:
- Our world
- Our profession
- Our Association
The Association is guided in its work by these core values:
Integration of spirituality and psychology in all we do.
- Holistic understandings of human life as spiritual, biological, psychological, social and cultural.
- Excellence in practice, accountability and ethics.
- Justice and wholeness for individuals, families and communities in life, work and relationships.
- Respect for the rich diversity of human life and human understandings of religion and spirituality.
- Intentional lifelong personal, spiritual, and professional formation.
- Collaborative partnership with religious institutions and faith communities.
- Ongoing critical analysis and revision of our practice and our organization.
- Responsible stewardship in our use of resources. Click to see the entire Mission and Strategic Plan.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO Dr. Alice Graham, AAPC Vice President
In her haste to answer the cry for help after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, pastoral counselor Alice Marie Graham broke a promise to herself she had made more than 50 years before, when fellow Chicagoan Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi: to never set foot in the state.
Yet her experiences providing counseling to Mississippians devastated by Katrina proved so profound that she felt a real calling to continue her work there. So in 2009 Graham moved to the state she once swore she'd never visit to become executive director of the Mississippi Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force.Rev. Alice Graham has been chosen to be a Purpose Prize fellow.
The Purpose Prize®, now in its sixth year, is the nation's only large-scale investment in people over 60 who are combining their passion and experience for social good. It's for those with the passion to make change and the experience to know how to do it.