Minister
Ministers and clergy conduct religious worship and perform other spiritual functions associated with beliefs and practices of religious faith or denomination. Clergy also provide spiritual and moral guidance and assistance regarding marital, health, financial, or religious problems. They may come to their calling from almost any background and often benefit from graduate or professional-level education in counseling psychology, organizational psychology, education, integral psychology, or consciousness and transformative studies.
At JFK University, foundational programs through the School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) include philosophy and religion; psychology; science, health, and living systems; and social ecology. Graduate programs in teacher education are also available.
Related programs through the School of Holistic Studies (SHS) integrate mind, body, spirit, culture, and environment, and include consciousness and transformative studies, integral psychology, and counseling psychology, with specializations in holistic studies, somatic psychology, and transpersonal psychology. A daily spiritual practice is required as part of developing therapeutic sensitivity.
The Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) offers programs in counseling psychology (marriage and family), organizational psychology, and coaching, as well as the PsyD degree.
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