C LINICAL PASTORAL TRAINING* seeks to provide a clinically trained religious ministry in mental hospitals and, under competent supervision, to give clergymen a first-hand experience in working with people who have major problems in living. It provides theological students and clergymen with intensive, supervised clinical study of interpersonal relationships, and deals with the resources, methods, and meanings of religion as these are expressed through pastoral care. Clinical pastoral training can be offered on four levels: I. Part-time Course for Community Clergymen: These courses are intended to help the local clergyman in his pastoral ministry, both to the parishioner who is ill and to the patient’s family. Such courses offer lectures ailti seminars on mental illness and its related problems, opportunities for understanding hospital commitment procedures, the treatment of the hospitalized patient, the nature of the religious ministry to patients, and the interrelationship of religion and psychiatry. Special attention is also devoted to the problems involved in helping the family and aiding the patient’s return to the community. Courses are conducted one-half day per week for twelve weeks and include lectures, seminars, tours of the hospital, and visits with the patients. To be accepted for such a course, a participant must be in pastoral work and be interviewed personally by a Chaplain Supervisor with a view toward determining his emotional stability for such study. Arrangements can often be made with a nearby seminary to offer academic credit leading to advanced degrees for such courses, if given under accredited supervision. II. The Chaplain Extern: Men who are accepted for this level of training should have a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent, have completed one full year in a recognized theological seminary, and have been interviewed and recommended for such training by a representative of such a standards-making, accrediting, and certifying body as the Council for Clinical Training, Inc. Courses for such students may be designed as part