Saybrook University is a

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. It was founded in 1971 by Eleanor Camp Criswell and others. It offers

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with a focus on

humanistic psychology Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective that arose in the mid-20th century in answer to two theories: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory and B. F. Skinner's behaviorism. Thus, Abraham Maslow established the need for a "third force ...

. It features low residency, master's, and doctoral degrees and professional certification programs. The university is accredited by the WASC Senior Colleges and University Commission. The university is classified an exclusively graduate institution with programs that are "Research Doctoral: Humanities/social sciences-dominant". As of Fall of 2017 the university had 785 students enrolled. The university reported 222 full-time and part-time academic faculty in 2017.

History

Eleanor Camp Criswell, along with Rollo May,

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, and

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, founded the Humanistic Psychology Institute at California State University, Sonoma in 1971. Author Michael Mayer recalls that the Saybrook name derives from Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where during a conference in 1964 several psychologists, including Rollo May and Carl Rogers, expressed a desire "to create a school that embodied the values of the 'human growth and potential movement' and to educate practitioner-scholars in the methods and philosophies of human-centered psychotherapy". Under the leadership of Criswell and philosopher

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(1928–1990) the school began offering graduate courses in humanistic psychology. In the 1970s, the school moved to the Burr Mansion in Cow Hollow, San Francisco. Later on it was renamed the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. In 2009, the school was renamed Saybrook University. The university became affiliated with the shared services organizatio
TCS Education System
in 2014 to provide administrative and financial services, so that the school could focus on teaching and research. The same year, the administrative offices of the school moved from

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. The administrative offices now are located in Pasadena, California.

Academics

The university aims to provide "rigorous graduate education that inspires transformational change in individuals, organizations, and communities, toward a just, humane, and sustainable world." It offers programs in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies (non-clinical), Clinical Psychology, Psychophysiology, Mind-Body Medicine, Leadership and Management, Counseling, Integrative Wellness Coaching, Transformative Social Change, and Integrative and Functional Nutrition. The school's president is Nathan Long.

Colleges

The university awards

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, and

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degrees as well as certificates. These programs are housed in colleges and schools: *College of Social Sciences **Department of Humanistic and Clinical Psychology **Department of Counseling **Department of Leadership and Management **Department of Transformative Social Change **Department of Business Administration *College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences **Department of Integrative Wellness Coaching **Department of Integrative and Functional Nutrition **Department of Applied Psychophysiology **Department of Mind-Body Medicine

Rankings

Based on a survey of academic programs, '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Saybrook's psychology program in the bottom quartile of its 2013 ranking of graduate psychology programs. The precise rankings in this quartile are not published. The United States National Research Council rankings (NRC) ranked Saybrook in a tied tier between 173 and 174 out of 185 in its 2014 rankings of 185 psychology PhD programs.

Accreditation

Saybrook University is accredited by the

WASC Senior College and University Commission The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) was an organization providing accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in California and Hawaii, the territories of Guam, American Samoa ...

(WSCUC). Saybrook's M.A. in counseling is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), however the remainder of its clinical mental health programs are not accredited by any major national accrediting body or major professional organizations' accrediting bodies like the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...

(APA) (which does not accredit distance-learning programs), the Council for Accrediting of Counseling & Related Educational Programs (CACREP) or the

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(COAMFTE). This can cause problems with licensure or employment in certain agencies.

Student demographics

Notable faculty

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at the School of Organizational Leadership and Transformation and author Chip Conley.

References

External links

Official website
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