Pluralistic Rabbinical Seminary

Mental Health and the Rabbinate

Course Description

This course is designed to provide you with an overview of common mental health issues, approaches to psychotherapy and mental health treatment, the ways in which clergy can respond appropriately on behalf of those served, and a framework for applying a psychospiritual framework to your rabbinate.

This course consists of six chevruta session lasting 50-60 minutes.

This course is 1 credit towards smicha

What Students Will Learn

At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Identify common mental health conditions and symptoms
2. Be familiar with the most common treatment modalities and approaches to psychotherapy
3. Understand the similarities and differences between chaplaincy, pastoral counseling, and psychotherapy
4. Know how and when to make a referral to a mental health professional
5. Incorporate self-care strategies as part of their rabbinate 6. Apply a psychospiritual lens to their rabbinate.

Prerequisite Knowledge

N/A

Materials

Assigned readings and videos

Credits Earned

1 elective credit towards smicha

Learning Assessment

Based on student’s needs and interests (journal assignments, brief written papers, special projects, etc.)

Meeting Time Availability & Course Price

Meeting Time Availability
Day / Evenings during the Business Week (Pacific time zone)

Course Price (USD)
$300

Payment Methods Accepted
Paypal, Check, Zelle, Venmo

Getting Started

Reach out to Dr. Adam Fogel by email: dradamfogel@gmail.com

Learning Verification

When your havrutah is completed, have your educator fill out the form below and give it back to you. Please provide the form to them if they do not already have it. Then upload the filled-out Brit Limmud to the quiz associated with this havrutah course.

Brit Limmud for Havrutah CourseDownload

Meet Your Instructor

Rabbi Adam Fogel
Ph.D.
Rabbi Dr. Adam G. Fogel is an independent progressive Rabbi ordained by the Pluralistic Rabbinical Seminary and a practicing Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in the Central Valley of California. Adam maintains an inclusive worldview and has benefited from study with rabbis and spiritual teachers from across the religious and denominational landscape and is dually ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest. He began Zen meditation practice in 1996 and currently studies with Gambo Kyogan Berry Crawford Roshi. In addition, Rabbi Fogel completed the Institute for Jewish Spirituality's Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program in 2017. Adam embraces vulnerability and intimacy as the core of religious, psychological, and spiritual experience and teaches that living an authentic, meaningful life in relationship with the sacred and our ordinary, day to day life is one of our great human projects. Rabbi Dr. Fogel is available for conversion to Judaism study through Darshan Yeshiva and available independently for spiritual direction, bar/bat mitzvah preparation, life cycle events, private study, psychotherapy, as well as Zen meditation instruction and practice discussion. You may reach Adam at dradamfogel@ gmail.com.

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Jeffrey Sumber
Posted 8 months ago
A fantastic opportunity for us as we learn

Rabbi Adam is compassionate, professional and wise as he navigates our sessions in just the right direction. What a wonderful experience.

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