The St Luke organization
S:t Lukas is an ecumenical voluntary and professional organization. It was founded in 1939 by people from different churches and professions. They maintained that people have interacting social, physical, psychological and spiritual needs. This conviction of an existential whole has since then guided the work of S:t Lukas.
Basic idea
S:t Lukas works with psychotherapy, psychosocial issues and pastoral counselling from a psychodynamic and Christian point of view.
S:t Lukas exists for
- people who want to work through their psychological and existential problems,
- training and supervision of professionals working in different fields dealing with people, such as health-care, psychotherapy, medical or social care, schools, and churches,
- people who want to explore and share their meaning of life, personal development and human relations.
The nationwide organization
The local units co-operate in a nationwide organization. An assembly of Trustees appoints the Board and the Director. The national center is in Stockholm.
- has a central co-ordinating function for all activites and supervises the activites of the local units,
- runs the S:t Lukas Educational Program,
- arranges professional development courses for psychotherapists employed by the local units,
- arranges National Conferences,
- publishes a quarterly newsletter “S:t Lukasbrevet” to the members.
- publishes work of research.
Local units
33 local units with in all about 4.000 members are the basis of the S:t Lukas activities.
The local units
- run programs concerning psychotherapy and psychodynamic thinking,
- manage offices for psychotherapy and are administratively responsible for these offices,
- arrange speeches, diskussions, short courses and study circles in order to promote the S:t Lukas purposes, its values, ideology and work,
- arrange retreats, meditations and prayer-groups to further spiritual and personal growth.
Activities and offices for psychotherapy
There are S:t Lukas offices for psychotherapy and psychosocial counselling in about 32 cities all over Sweden.
About 5.800 individuals come for personal psychotherapy to the offices each year for together more than 76.000 visits every year. The visitor pays a fee, substantially lower than the real costs. The local boards put great effort into covering the difference. In a year about thousand professionals come for supervision.
S:t Lukas employs about 140 psychotherapists with different professions as doctors, minister, psychologists, social workers and psychiatric nurses. Most of them have received their psychotherapeutic training at S:t Lukas.
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Educational program
Psychotherapy
The purpose of this training is to enable psychotherapeutic work with adults.
- basic psychotherapy training extends over 5 terms with lectures once a week, the participants own psychotherapy and practice.
- advanced psychotherapy training extends over 6 terms. Those who complete this course are entitled to a certification from the National Board of Health and Well-fare.
- Supervision-training for psychotherapy extends over 4 terms and includes training in supervising and teaching of psychotherapy.
Psychosocial training
- psychosocial work training extends over 6 terms. The purpose is to further the holistic concept of humanity, concerning individuals, groups and organizations. The training offers experience of how psychodynamics can apply to the participants’ own field of work.
- Supervision-training for psychosocial work extends over 3 terms and focuses on the supervisory process for individuals and groups.
Pastoral Counselling
- training in pastoral counselling for church-employees extends over 5 terms. The purpose of this course is to integrate the participants deepening human knowledge with personal development.
- training in individual pastoral counselling extends over 5 terms. The purpose of this course is to enable the participants to be more efficient in helping the confident to work through life crises and to integrate personal, psychological and spiritual development.
- supervision-training for pastoral counselling extends over 3 terms. The purpose of this course is to give the participants skills to handle the counselling situation.
Short courses
S:t Lukas offices arrange a great variation of short courses, e.g. The professional interview, Working through crisis, Conflict-resolutions, Mourning and Bereavement.
