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Church-Based Collaboration: Assessing Needs and Evaluating Programs in the Ministry Setting

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Date & Location:

Date: March 9, 2012
Time: 9am - 3:20pm
Location: Regent University
Directions: Directions & Map

Presentation Description:

Many congregations are seeing the importance of Christ-centered counseling services. However, Christian mental health professionals have many other skills that can be put at the service of the Church, including consultation, research, and assessment. "Church Consultation" encourages the traditional counseling services, while also casting a bigger vision for the various ways psychology, including the research skills of psychologists, can be used to serve the church.

Church-based consultation is collaborative, as mental health professionals work with church leaders to assess what it is that they care most about in their specific congregations. Research skills from social sciences are then employed to develop ways of gathering information to work to find answers to the particular questions they generate. Sometimes questions focus on evaluating aspects of ongoing ministry. Other times, needs within the community (faith or larger) are assessed to identify what ministry efforts are yet needed and likewise how might these best be developed to meet existing needs.

Target Audience:

SPC students who want to learn about research-based consultation within the church or ministry setting, particularly those who seek to do formal training in such a setting as part of a practica or internship experience. Also, mental health professionals who want to learn about such consultation are also welcomed.

Level:

Intermediate

Workshop Objectives:

1. Give an overview of local ministry support via the application of sound research methodology.
2. Provide insights on the use of evaluation data to inform ministry effectiveness and development.
3. Highlight the importance of assessing needs and resources within a faith community.
4. Support the pivotal role which mental health professionals can play via consultation regarding church-based care.

Learning Objectives:

After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize and work with systemic dynamics within a church setting
2. Analyze the main areas for attention in consultation
3. Apply skills from research (needs assessment and program evaluation) and the helping professions (attentive listening, engagement, reflection, etc.) to the church system
4. Plan methodology that fits the particular church context
5. Create instruments for use in a ministry evaluation
6. Evaluate data and generate targetted recommendations to the church setting

Relevant References:

• Dominguez, A.W. (2008). Evaluating Ministry Effectiveness, Faith & Therapy, Vol. 2 (8).
• Dominguez, A.W., & McMinn, M.R. (2003). Collaboration through research: The Multi-Method Church-based Assessment Process. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 22, 333-337.
• McMinn, M.R. & Dominguez, A.W. (2003). Guest editors' introduction: Psychology and the Church. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 22, 291-292.
• K.M., Walsh, J.M., McMinn, M.R., Dominguez, A.W., & Aikins, D.C. (2000). Psychology and the church: An exemplar of psychology-clergy collaboration. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 31, 515-520.
• Edwards, L.C., Lim, R.K.B., McMinn, M.R., & Dominguez, A.W. (1999). Examples of collaboration between psychologists and clergy. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 30, 547-551.
• McMinn, M.R. & Dominguez, A.W. (Eds.) (2005). Psychology and the church. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
• Dominguez, A. W., McMinn, M. R. (2005). Collaboration Through Research: The Multi-method Church-based Assessment Process. Chapter in McMinn, M. R.; Dominguez, A. W. (Eds.) (20005). Psychology and the church (pp. 105-111). Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
• Dominguez, A.W. (2000). Psychology Serving the Church through Assessment: Development of the Multimethod Church Assessment Process. Doctoral Dissertation.

Agenda:

9 AM - Overview of church-based care, research & rationale for approach
10 AM - Begin review of MCAP process, including learning about process consultation within the organizational setting of the church

10:45 AM Break

11:00 AM Resume review of MCAP process, including learning about process consultation within the organizational setting of the church
12 PM - Lunch
12:45 PM - Indepth presentation and training on the MCAP process

• Stage 1: Generating specific questions; training in the identification of key aspects of evaluation within the ministry setting
• Stage 2: Plan research methods; including research mapping, literature review, development of questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups
• Stage 3: Evaluate data; review available methods of data analysis (both qualitative and quantitative), incorporate meaningful insight from data to generate useful report with targeted recommendations

2:00 PM Break

2:15 PM Resume indepth presentation and training on the MCAP process

2:45 PM - Specific applications and challenges
3:20 PM - Dismiss

Presenter:

Dr. Dominguez is the HSC Program Director and an external consultant to a variety of research-based consultation projects. Her background includes over 20 years of counseling, both in ministry as well as in a professional clinical role, and twelve years of teaching at the graduate level (with Regent since 2006, and previously at Wheaton College). Dr. Dominguez finds great value in thinking deeply about the ways that psychology and counseling intersect with Christian faith and doctrine, aspects in which the two domains differ, and how this work can be used creatively to build up the body of Christ.

Dr. Amy Dominguez (with Dr. Mark McMinn) began and co-directed the Center for Church-Psychology Collaboration (CCPC) at Wheaton College before coming to Regent University. At the CCPC, church and ministry development were supported through research, training, and service to faith communities. Dr. Dominguez developed a unique method for evaluating church ministry, the Multi-Method Church Assessment Process (MCAP) which is now used around the world, even as far away as the University of Cambridge, UK. The key difference between the MCAP and previous church-based assessment efforts is the belief that pastors can and should determine which questions to assess in a particular congregation. Rather than developing standardized questionnaires that are assumed to work equally well with an inner city church in New York, a rural parish in Nebraska, and a suburban mega-church in Chicago (for example), the MCAP is a standardized process that allows the pastor and psychologist to work side-by-side in answering highly specific questions. Questions such as: Why is a particular small group ministry doing well, while a support group ministry is just barely limping along? What pressures and stresses do high school students in this youth program face at the dawn of a new century? What sort of informal mentoring is being provided for young couples in this congregation? This training will help participants to understand process-oriented church-based consultation.

• Click for Additional Information on Amy Dominguez

  Publications

  • McMinn, M, R., Tabor, A., Trihub, B. L., Taylor, L., & Dominguez, A. W. (2010). Reading in graduate school: A survey of doctoral students in clinical psychology. Training and Education in Professional Psychology.
  
  • Dominguez, A. W., McMinn, M. R., & Moon, G. W. (2009). Teaching integration outside the traditional classroom. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 37, 48-53.
  
  • Dominguez, A.W. (2008). Evaluating Ministry Effectiveness, Faith & Therapy, Vol. 2 (8).
  
  • Kwee, A. W., Dominguez, A. W., & Ferrell, D. (2007); Sexual addiction and Christian college men: Conceptual, Assessment, and Treatment Challenges. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 26, 3-13.
  
  • Dominguez, A.W., & McMinn, M.R. (2003). Collaboration through research: The Multi-Method Church-based Assessment Process. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 22, 333-337.
  
  • McMinn, M.R. & Dominguez, A.W. (2003). Guest editors' introduction: Psychology and the Church. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 22, 291-292.
  
  • McMinn, M.R., Roh, S.H., McMinn, L.G., Dominguez, A.W., Rhee, E.R., Maurina, A.B., Ham, E., Rutter, M., & Chae, P.K. (2001). Mental health needs and resources in Christian communities of South Korea. Journal of Psychology and Theology.
  
  • Benes, K.M., Walsh, J.M., McMinn, M.R., Dominguez, A.W., & Aikins, D.C. (2000). Psychology and the church: An exemplar of psychology-clergy collaboration. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 31, 515-520.
  
  • Edwards, L.C., Lim, R.K.B., McMinn, M.R., & Dominguez, A.W. (1999). Examples of collaboration between psychologists and clergy. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 30, 547-551.

  • McMinn, M.R., Meek, K.R., Dominguez, A.W., Ryan, J.G., & Novotny, K.A. (1999). Forgiveness motives among evangelical Christians: Implications for Christian marriage and family therapists. Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal, 2, 189-199.

  Ministry Experience

  International Service (short-term): Belize, Honduras, Dominican Republic, South Korea, and multiple trips to Mexico (varied projects; including building, sanitation, teaching, outreach-1983-2000)
  
  Local Service: Tutoring through Outreach Ministry, inner-city Chicago (1996-1999)
  
  Workshop Speaker; Leadership Development, Emotions, Marriage, Parenting, Self-Care, Women's Issues, Communication, Substance Use, Self-Evaluation and Ministry (ongoing)
  
  Homeless Outreach Ministry, Community Action Service Agency, Phoenix, AZ (1988-1996), P.A.D.S., Chicago IL (1996-2000), Oasis Ministry, Portsmouth, VA (2008-present), Weekly Street ministry (2008-present)
  
  Mentorship Support to Severely Mentally Ill, ComPeer, Phoenix, AZ (1988-1996)
  
  Ministry Development Consultant, church and community leaders (ongoing)

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