Healthcare combines medical technology and human touch to provide care around the clock for millions of people. Typically focused on illness, disease, and prevention, the industry includes a range of establishments from small-town private practices of physicians to city and urban hospitals with thousands of diverse jobs. The United States Department of Labor identifies the following nine healthcare industry segments:
- hospitals
- nursing and residential care facilities
- offices of physicians
- offices of dentists
- home health care services
- offices of other health care practitioners (such as chiropractors, optometrists, podiatrists, occupational and physical therapists, dietitians, psychologists, counselors, health educators, and other therapists)
- outpatient care centers
- other ambulatory health care services such as blood and organ banks, ambulance and helicopter transport, pacemaker monitoring services, and smoking cessation programs
- medical and diagnostic laboratories
In 2004, healthcare was the largest industry in the United States. It is projected to create more new jobs through 2014 than any other segment of the American economy.
Healing means “to cause to become whole or healthy again,” referring to the use of a person or treatment as it applies to a wound, injury, or person. While everyone hopes for and works toward physical health and the return to wholeness after injury, healing can also occur relative to mental and emotional states. Healers may be trained in the medical arts and sciences, and they may use the expressive arts, creativity, social situations, interpersonal relationships, or almost any combination of techniques and disciplines to foster a state of healing in those who seek their assistance.
Several program at JFK University support your interest in serving the community through professions in healthcare and healing.
The
School of Holistic Studies (SHS) offers many programs that develop your unique talents and abilities toward becoming a healer and/or helping others to heal, including holistic health education, consciousness and transformative studies, integral psychology, transformative arts, and counseling psychology. Learning takes place within the context of a global culture and a sustainable environment. Using East/West philosophical traditions, our professional degree programs are founded on holistic values of inter-connectedness, compassion, diversity, imagination, and community service.
JFKU’s
School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) offers foundational programs, certificates, and courses that can contribute to developing skills and abilities as a healer, such as psychology; philosophy and religion; science, health, and living systems; social ecology; East/West spirituality; transpersonal studies; integrative health; multicultural studies; and Essentials Coaching.
Or you may want to pursue professional programs related to healthcare and healing that are available through JFKU’s
Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP), including the PsyD degree, the MA in Counseling Psychology, the MA in Organizational Psychology, the MA in Sport Psychology, and the linked PsyD/MA in Sport Psychology
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