{"id":179,"date":"2022-06-01T03:50:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/?post_type=avada_faq&#038;p=179"},"modified":"2022-06-01T03:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T03:50:27","slug":"what-are-the-requirements-for-buddhists-to-become-board-certified-chaplains","status":"publish","type":"avada_faq","link":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/faq-items\/what-are-the-requirements-for-buddhists-to-become-board-certified-chaplains\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the requirements for Buddhists to become Board Certified Chaplains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a detailed overview of Buddhist education for chaplaincy in the United States and the requirements for becoming a Board Certified Chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains, readers are referred to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplaincyinnovation.org\/resources\/faith-tradition\/buddhist-chaplaincy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Path to Buddhist Chaplaincy: Academic Education, Religious Endorsement, Professional Board Certification<\/a>\u201d by Gauthier, Kinst, Miller, and Yuen, available in the 2020 version at Chaplaincy Innovation Lab or as an updated chapter in the forthcoming book <em>Refuge in the Storm: Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care<\/em> (North Atlantic Books, 2023).<\/p>\n<p>In brief, the four requirements are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>72-credits of Graduate Theological Education<\/li>\n<li>4 units of Clinical Pastoral Education<\/li>\n<li>Religious Endorsement<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;2000 hours of chaplaincy employment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that there are other certifying chaplaincy organizations, with evolving requirements, and not all chaplaincy sectors nor employers require, or recognize, certifications for professional chaplaincy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a detailed overview of Buddhist education for chaplaincy in  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"faq_category":[7],"class_list":["post-179","avada_faq","type-avada_faq","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","faq_category-chaplaincy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/179\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maitripa.org\/buddhist-chaplaincy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_category?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}