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Dec 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Saybrook Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum
Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Practice Certificate
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Overview of Certificate
Recent research places existential-humanistic therapy not on the fringe, but squarely at the center of psychological theory and practice. The Certificate program provides a foundational core that focuses on both theory and skill development. The theoretical part focuses on existential-humanistic therapy with an emphasis on two of its founders, Rollo May and James Bugental. An overarching assumption of existential-humanistic therapy is that the client's in-the-moment experience forms both the underlying and actual process in therapy. This assumption anchors the existential-humanistic therapist in the principles of practice that focus on experience over explanation and process over content. Further, this here-and-now emphasis on relational factors of therapy affirms the personhood of the client, empowering them in the realization that they matter in a world that is all too ready not to see and validate them for who they are. It eschews conventional notions of psychopathology based a concept of "normative."
Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Upon completion of the Certificate, students will be able to:
- Identify meaning-making processes unfolding in the present moment.
- Illuminate these actual but often unrecognized processes by cultivating intra-psychic and interpersonal presence.
- Develop a safe and intimate therapeutic relationship.
- Recognize and work with existential life issues that may be present but disguised.
- Recognize and work with transference and counter-transference issues within an existential framework.
Career Opportunities
This certificate program is well-suited for those who seek to deepen their experience in providing relational psychotherapy, as well as their grounding in an existential-humanistic and existential-integrative approach to clinical work with clients. It will also appeal to scholars of these therapy approaches to better inform research designs in qualitative and quantitative methods and methodologies. Finally, it will be attractive to those who wish to enhance their effectiveness as educators and Faculty in teaching existential-humanistic and existential-integrative approaches in graduate institutions.
Admissions Requirements
Students without previous clinical training or not involved in a clinical psychology degree program at Saybrook may be eligible if they have a strong background in existential or humanistic therapy.
One year of personal therapy taken either before or during the year-long program is strongly recommended.
Residential /University / Virtual Learning Experience
All new students begin their studies with a Welcome Week. Welcome Week activities, including a certificate program orientation, are held online during the week ahead of the start of the fall and spring semesters. Participation is strongly encouraged.
No face-to-face residential learning experiences (RLEs) are required for this certificate. However, students are invited to attend any of Saybrook’s face-to-face residential learning experiences (RLEs), community learning experiences (CLEs) and/or virtual learning experiences (VLEs) where they will meet other Saybrook students, faculty and staff.
This certificate is offered in collaboration with the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI): Http://ehinstitute.org/ehi-saybrook-eh-psychology-therapy-certificate.html. The required experiential is managed by EHI, including associated costs, location, dates, etc.
Note: Saybrook degree-matriculating students may substitute one RLE, VLE, or CLE by attending one EHI experiential retreat.
Certificate Specific Requirements (outside of university policies)
Two experiential courses offered through EHI:
Hours
Students in the certificate program will undertake 9 hours of coursework at Saybrook (three 3-credit courses, 9 and 6 hours of coursework; two 3-credit courses through the Existential-Humanistic Institute).
Mode of Delivery
Course delivery is online, with the exception of experiential courses taken at EHI.
Length of Certificate
The Certificate Program can be completed over two years during Fall and Spring Semesters.
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