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College of Graduate and Professional StudiesCollege of Graduate andProfessional StudiesTPC 5205 Diagnosis, Assessment and erapeutic Strategy C (2)Prerequisite: HPC5200TPC 5213 erapeutic Communication ATPC 5214 erapeutic Communication BPrerequisite: TPC 5213HPC 5245 Psychopharmacology (1)TPC 5152 Marriage and Family Counseling APrerequisites: LIB 3405, PYC 3200, TPC 5006, TPC5161, TPC 5193TPC 5153 Marriage and Family Counseling BPrerequisite: TPC 5152HPC 5158 Child erapyTPC 5192 Individual Development and the Family Life Cycle ATPC 5193 Individual Development and the Family Life Cycle BPrerequisite: TPC 5192TPC 5103 Applied Clinical Philosophy (1)TPC 5231 Sexuality (2)TPC 5243 Community Mental Health and Principles of RecoveryTPC 5250 Basic Addiction StudiesTPC 5325 Ethics and the LawTPC 5422 Cross-Cultural Issues in CounselingTPC 5620 Holistic/Somatic Approaches to Trauma and PTSD A(2)HPC 5703 Clinical Skills: Partner and Spousal Abuse, Elder Care(2)TPC 5705 Counseling Case Seminar (2)TPC 9005 Personal Psychotherapy (0)Field PlacementTPC 5751 Field Placement ATPC 5752 Field Placement BPrerequisite: TPC 5751TPC 5753 Field Placement CPrerequisite: TPC 5752TPC 5754 Field Placement DPrerequisite: TPC 5753Professional Integrative Project SequenceTPC 5104 Professional Integrative Project A (1)TPC 5105 Professional Integrative Project B (2)Prerequisite: TPC 5104Total units required 92-100Specialization in Somatic Psychologystructural patterning, and regulation of physiological states.rough movement seminars students explore the reciprocalrelationship between movement and the psyche. Students learn toutilize movement and somatic awareness techniques to workthrough emotional blocks, allow tension patterns to unwind, andcultivate body-mind-spirit integration. Classes focusing on traumaand stress negotiation provide students with the clinicalunderstanding of hyper- and hypo aroused physiological states, theimportance of working within the “window of tolerance,” andpractical resourcing skills. Courses on family, community, andsocietal dynamics develop critical thinking about the cultural body.As an integrative program the JFK University Somatic Psychologyprogram is informed by several disciplines, including attachmenttheory, psychodynamic and humanistic therapy models, prenatalpsychology, neurodevelopment and psychobiological perspectives,traumatology, psychoevolutionary theory, and ethology. In additionto a core curriculum, the somatic program offers students theopportunity to explore contemporary schools of somaticpsychology, such as neo-Reichian work, Hakomi, Biodynamics,Bioenergetics, Authentic Movement, Biosynthesis, SomaticExperiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Psycho-Physicalerapy. Students are encouraged to pursue both spiritual practicesand somatic disciplines as a foundation for their work with others.admission requirementsIn addition to a completed application, an applicant must submit:• One set of official transcripts of the conferred BA degree andany post-Bachelor credits or degrees.• A personal statement that is 5-to-10 double-spaced, typewrittenpages describing any personal or professional growth work orevents that have shaped the applicant’s life, reasons for applyingto the area of specialization, any study (academic or otherwise)pursued in this area of interest and future professional andpersonal goals.Letters of recommendation are strongly recommended, but notrequired. Letters should be from friends, professional associates,teachers, supervisors or others who can comment on emotional,spiritual, intellectual and practical development, as well as assesscapacity for graduate study in the degree area.Upon receipt of a completed application, an admissions interviewwill be scheduled.e Master of Arts (MA) in Counseling Psychology program withan emphasis in Somatic Psychology is a professional training thatoffers a strong foundation in counseling theory and practice froman integrative, whole-person model. It is built upon the centralprinciple of Somatic Psychology - that soma and psyche areinseparable - and combines theoretical and experiential learningmodalities. e curriculum emphasizes the understanding thatpersonal and cultural attitudes and beliefs are embodied andexpressed in one’s posture, gesture, voice, movement, and ways ofrelating. Emotional, cognitive, social, cultural, and spiritualexperiences are therefore considered to be part of an embodiedtherapeutic process.is master’s-level degree program, one of a very few in the world,integrates the study of psycho-physical-emotional processes in thepractice of psychotherapy. It provides students with professionalclinical skills of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment with aparticular emphasis on somatic processes, such as sensateexperience, sensory-motor development, movement expression,degree requirementsUndergraduate Prerequisitesese undergraduate courses or their approved equivalents areprerequisite to the graduate program. Students who have notcompleted them prior to admission are required to do so during thefirst year of graduate study.Undergraduate Prerequisites:PyC 3200 eories of Personality (0-4)HSC 3110 Anatomy and Physiology (0-4)All courses are 3 quarter units unless otherwise indicated.Core CurriculumCNS 5010 Paradigms of ConsciousnessHPC 5000 Introduction to Holistic Studies CounselingPsychology Program (0)98 College of Graduate and Professional Studies JOHN F. KENNEDy UNIvERSITy