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School of Holistic StudiesSchool ofHolistic StudiesSPC _____________________________________________________________________5530 Psychological Testing 3This survey course is designed to help students understand thebasic concepts and applications of psychological testing and thepsychometric properties of psychological tests. The course willemphasize the appropriate applications and limitations of manyof the current psychological tests—especially with regard to theiruse with people of non-dominant cultures. Issues of validity andethics will be reviewed in this regard.SPC 5535 Individual Developmentand _____________________________________________________________________Family Life Cycle A 3This course introduces students to classic developmentaltheorists from a dynamic living systems and somatic psychologyperspective. The emphasis is placed on early bodily and sensoryorganization and on the primacy of relationship in development.A holistic theory of self and ego development is presented. Thiscourse will consider how Freud, Reich, Mahler, Winnicott, Piaget,Bowlby, Stern, Schore, Seigel, Fogel, and Greenspan help usunderstand the process by which we come to inhabit ourembodied self across the lifespan. Developmental profiles aredrawn from diverse cultural contexts.SPC 5536 Individual Developmentand _____________________________________________________________________Family Life Cycle B 3This course focuses on the phase-specific, holistic process ofdevelopment from adolescence to the end of life. A biopsychosocialperspective is applied to the areas of cognitive, emotional,and relational development. Contemporary family life is exploredthrough the in-class use of the family genogram (an adultattachment scale) and through discussion of multiculturalfamily patterns and the “family body.” Sources include the StoneCenter group, McGoldrick, Greenspan, Erickson, Keleman, andKubler-Ross.SPC _____________________________________________________________________5540 Child Therapy 3This course provides an overview of theories and “best practices”approaches in the treatment of children. Students will becomefamiliar with therapeutic work in various treatment settingsand develop an appreciation of the overarching importanceof multicultural, social, and developmental contexts in understandingchild behavior. Students will develop skills for workingin collaborative relationships in child therapy and studypsychodynamic and child centered approaches to child therapy.Prerequisite: PYC 3100, PYC 3200, SPC 5535, and SPC 5536.SPC _____________________________________________________________________5551 Marriage and Family Counseling A 3This is an introduction to the principles and methods of marriageand family counseling including family systems theories, methodsfor assessment of family/couples interaction patterns, and interventionstrategies appropriate to different types of dysfunctions.Clinical interventions include experiential and somatic techniques.The relationship between family systems and principles ofholism are discussed. Multicultural family and relational diversityis a focus. Prerequisites: SPC 5535 and SPC 5536.SPC _____________________________________________________________________5552 Marriage and Family Counseling B 3This course focuses on the application of principles andmethods of experiential and somatic techniques, marriage andfamily counseling, and marriage and family systems theory tospecific family problems—terminal illness, psychosomaticdisorders, addictive behavior, relational conflict, divorce,blended families, and multiracial families. Prerequisite: SPC 5551or permission of the advisor.SPC _____________________________________________________________________5572 Body-Oriented Psychotherapies 2This course examines the conceptual themes and clinicalapproaches common to all somatic psychotherapies andexposes students to the theory and practice of a number ofcontemporary modalities through guest lecturers in Hakomi,somatic experiencing, formative psychology, bioenergetics,core energetics, Bodynamics, integrative body psychotherapy,biosynthesis, and process work.SPC 5612 Supervised Practicain _____________________________________________________________________Somatic Psychology 0.5Through a variety of different practica, students explore holistichealth practices that can be used with individuals, couples, andfamilies. These practica provide students with the opportunityto practice and experience the application of somatic psychologyclinical skills.SPC 5620 Somatic PsychologyApproaches _____________________________________________________________________to Trauma and PTSD 3This course provides an overview of the history of the traumaconcept and trauma treatment and a basic understanding of thepsychobiology and neurobiology of trauma. Conceptual and treatmentdistinctions will be made between shock, developmentaltrauma, and PTSD. The topics covered include phase-orientedtreatment, mapping arousal states, tracking autonomic systemactivation, traumatic transference and countertransference, andbuilding somatic and relational resources. This course draws onthe work of Levine, Ogden, Rothschild, and van der Kolk.SPC _____________________________________________________________________5631 Ethics and the Law 3Students become familiar with the existing legal and ethicalissues facing therapists. Students will make an in-depth study ofthe power of dynamics in the therapeutic relationship. Californialaws for psychotherapists are studied.150 School of Holistic Studies John F. Kennedy University