"This Survival Kit is a clearly established and rare manual resource for teaching and training CPE students. The author, Dr. Brenda P. Wallace, offers a succinct history and philosophical/theological framework, including a SMART Goal paradigm, which practically facilitates students in navigating the step by step clinical and didactic processes. I heartily endorse this CPE resource and consider it a requirement that every clinical pastoral education supervisor and student should possess." -Dr. Thomas Louis Brown, Sr., ThD. Bishop, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. Brenda Perry Wallace received a Doctor of Education from Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership from Walden University in Minneapolis, MN. Her dissertation entitled 'Perceptions of Lived-Experiences of Clinical Pastoral Education Students.' Four themes that emerged from this study were: a) Personal Empowerment; b) Increased Sensitivity to the Suffering of Others; c) Improved Competencies in Pastoral Care; and d) Connectivity to Self-Care and Ministry. She has worked as an engineer at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as well as twenty years as an engineer, project, and product manager with BellSouth, now AT&T. She was ordained as an American Baptist minister in 1998. Rev. Dr. Wallace currently serves as the secretary to the Southeast Region of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (SERACPE). She enjoys being a part of the National and Regional ACPE Accreditation committees, and has served as an Accreditation consultant to CPE Supervisors and ACPE centers preparing for ACPE Accreditation Reviews.