Issue 13
September 2010
Aromatherapy Registration Council Updates Many new and exciting things are taking place to provide greater services to those in the field of aromatherapy.
determine areas in which to write the questions. The submission of 10 test questions counts as 5 contact hours of continuing education towards reregistration. Test
First and foremost, the ARC Registration Examination is now
questions, identified as ARC, may be faxed to (212) 356-
being offered via computerized administration at several hundred
0678 or e-mailed to ptcny@ptcny.com.
testing locations across the United States. This enables greater access for those desiring to commit to higher standards in the field of aromatherapy.
Participate in an item review session. This year the item review will be held in New York City. RAs are needed to review potential new questions for the ARC examination to
Please note the change in eligibility requirements to sit for the
make sure they are appropriate, clearly written, and well-
examination. Candidates are required to have a minimum of 200
documented. This is a volunteer position but RAs who
hours of a Level 2 program in aromatherapy from a college or
participate in an ARC item review session earn 8 contact
school that is in compliance with the current NAHA Educational
hours towards reregistration. Please RSVP to
Guidelines. A transcript must be enclosed with the Application.
info@aromatherapy.org if you are interested or need
Visit www.ptcny.com/clients/arc to download a current
additional information.
Handbook for Candidates and Application.
Write content pertinent to the field of aromatherapy for
As a reminder, a condition of eligibility for and continued
future editions of the ARC Newsletter. We are seeking
registration as a Registered Aromatherapist is compliance with
interesting articles, news, etc. to publish. Do you have a
the ARC Disciplinary Policy. Visit
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www.aromatherapycouncil.org/arcnew.html to review the full
Testing Corporation, 1350 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York,
Policy. In addition, use of Raindrop Therapy is not allowed for
NY 10018 or ptcny@ptcny.com, attention ARC Newsletter.
RAs.
Copy should be typed and double spaced. Include a JPEG photo, if desired. Article submissions are not guaranteed to
ARC needs your assistance! ARC is continuously looking for RAs
be published. All information is subject to ARC approval and
to help in various ways. Help our profession by volunteering
editing. Authors are not promised that their submission will
some of your time to the Aromatherapy Registration Council.
be included in any specific newsletter.
Your feedback, time, and insight are important to ARC! Write new test questions for the ARC Registration Examination. Questions should reflect current aromatherapy practice and be based on research validated knowledge and skills. Refer to the Content Outline in the Handbook for Candidates, available at www.ptcny.com/clients/arc to
UPCOMING EXAMINATION DATES November 6—20, 2010
Application Deadline: 10/1/2010
April 9—23, 2011
Application Deadline: 3/1/2011
October 8—22, 2011
Application Deadline: 9/1/2011
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ARC Registration Examination in Aromatherapy December 2000—April 2010 (694 Candidates) Demographic Information PRACTICE SETTING Self-employed Hospital/Clinic Research Institute Education Retailers/Wholesalers Industry Government Association Other No response
GENDER Male Female No response
41.04% 12.86% 3.32% 34.54% 19.36% 2.60% 0.14% 7.95% 20.52% 1.88%
AROMATHERAPY TRAINING Training program 84.68% Workshops or seminars 21.53% On-the-job training 13.01% Advanced continuing ed. 18.21% Other 9.39% No response 1.01% PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Massage Therapist 37.28% Registered Nurse 34.97% Esthetician 13.15% Naturopathic Medicine 1.88% Practical/Vocational Nurse 1.16% Veterinarian 0.58% Pharmacist 1.01% Physician 1.45% Chiropractor 0.58% Acupuncturist 0.29% Complementary Medicine 3.90% Other 36.56% No response 3.18%
CURRENT NAHA MEMBER No 59.97% Yes 39.45% No response 0.58%
Per cent o f W o r ki ng T i me C ur r ent l y Sp ent in A r o mat her ap y
30.00% 25.00% 20.00% 15.00% 10.00% 5.00% 0.00% Less than 25%
26 to 50%
51 to 75%
Mor e than 75%
No r esponse
Age Range 40.00% 35.00% 30.00%
RACE African American Asian Hispanic Native American White No response
25.00%
1.45% 64.31% 1.88% 0.43% 25.43% 6.50%
HIGHEST ACADEMIC LEVEL ATTAINED High School Graduate 4.91% Some College 17.77% Associate Degree 6.21% Diploma in Nursing 4.05% Bachelor's Degree 45.09% Master's Degree 14.60% Doctoral Degree 3.32% Other 2.31% No response 1.73%
6.65% 75.72% 17.63%
20.00% 15.00% 10.00% 5.00% 0.00% Under 25
25 t o 29
30 t o 39
40 t o 49
50 t o 59
60+
No r esponse
STATE/PROVIDENCE OF RESIDENCE Arizona 3 California 41 Colorado 14 Connecticut 2 Florida 9 Georgia 6 Hawaii 1 Illinois 20 Indiana 2 Iowa 4 Kentucky 1 Louisiana 3 Maine 1 Maryland 7 Massachusetts 19 Michigan 2 Minnesota 6 Missouri 6 Montana 1 Nevada 1 New Hampshire 1 New Jersey 8 New York 21 North Carolina 6 Ohio 1 Oklahoma 3 Oregon 12 Pennsylvania 19 Rhode Island 3 South Carolina 3 South Dakota 1 Tennessee 6 Texas 9 Utah 1 Vermont 1 Virginia 1 Washington 10 Wisconsin 8 Puerto Rico 2 British Columbia 2 Nova Scotia 1 Ontario 1 Wyoming 1 Foreign 218 Korea 204
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Newly Registered Aromatherapists from April 2008 Eun Hee Cho Cristina Campbell
Katharine Koeppen Kimberly Powers
Yun Suk Gwen Jung Eun Park
Stephanie Haseltine Sung Won Moon
Myun Ji Kim Desales Ward
Marion Bustamonte
Jung Hwa Kim Bo Ra Jung Yun Hee Ri Seung Yong Lee Robert Turchyn Myung Hee Song Eun Gi Kim Su Hee Ma Myoung Suk Jun
Hee-Ok Kang In Sook Choi Jung Min Kim Jae Soon Hur Han Bok Moon Jung Ja Kim Mi-Ok Kim
Newly Registered Aromatherapists from October 2008 Sun Ja Jang So Young Park Deborah W. Price Mary K. Stieren Lisa C. Moore Karen A. Elkins Jeong Seop Kang Jin Hee Park Mi Hwa Lee
Loraine Montecalvo Chen Y.Carita Wang Woo Seung Choi Young Rim Lee Eun Jung Jung Celia J. Esquivel Chad E. O'Lynn Seung Ok Mun Soung Hee Park
Soon Hwa Lee Yoon Seok Jeong Katarzyna Machnicki Sun Hee Kim Soo Jung Bae Bo Yoon Shim Youn Joo Im Ju Young Lee Joung Rim Lee
Ok Young Moon Hwa Sun Kim Kimberly Mollenkopf Yoo Mi Choi Chang Hee Lee Eun Jung Lee Ji Yun Hyun Myoun Jin Shin
Newly Registered Aromatherapists from April 2009 Young Sun Kwon Soon Duk Jang Eui Young Ko Ji Jung Ahn Yun Kyeung Park Yun Mi Heo
Eun Suk Lee Seon Young Jo Young Hwa Kim Hye Lee Lee Eun Young Kim Yoo Gyung Kwon
Mi Jung Lee Hyun Ju Kim Mi Hee Han Bung Ran Oh Kyong Hye Yu Mi Kyung Lee
Hwa Jin Byun Mi Jung Lee Eun Hee Na Kyong Won Wang Su Min Park Jin Hee Kim
Im Kyung Jun Young Sin Chung Michael Dell'Orfano Si Yeon Park Mi Ae Park Sun Young Kwon Bridget Kelley
Newly Registered Aromatherapists from October 2009 Nancy L. Minix Seung Kim Ye Young Kim Mi-Ran Si Hye Kyoung Park Joo Hee Kim Sue-Jan Kim Kil-Young Lee Yun Ji Shin Rosemary Polen Ju Kyoung Kim
Amber-Lee McLean Chae-Jeung Lee Hyng Sun Byun Hee Yeon Yoo Hye Young Joung Dong Hee Shin Eun-Jin Pak Min Seo Kim Sun Young Yun Soo Gyoung Choi An Sook Kang
Eun Ju Jeong Soon Young Park Kyoung Ran Hwang Ji Eun Kang Young Ju Choi Hea Young Choi Ji Ae Kim Su Jin Won Gong Ju Chai Ki Youn Bae Jung Bun Park
Yuki Hashimoto Rieko Sakuramoto Marilyn K. Boerner Yun Hee Jung Mi Suk Nam Yoko Hara Hea Sil Ann Young-Ah Song Chae Woon Lee Mary Ellen Cassman Jennifer R. Dozier
Ju Young Park Lorraine FrongilloDowner Mi Jung Park Eun Park Kyung-Sook Han Barbara M. Enteen Elvira Dilibero Mary J. Chancellor Judith E. Millman Mary E. Tierney
Gil-Ja Na Geon Bae Yun Jeong Min Kim Eun Kyung Choi Lorraine S. Rimando Raup Pamela Lemme Hae Ja Im Kathy E. Klug Sun Mi Park Yeon Hee Lee Audrey Stadler
Newly Registered Aromatherapists from April 2010 Bok Nam Shin Hye Jin Park Sung Hee Kim Hee Ju Kwon Hun Young Park Kyoung Soon Eom Gyung Sun Seo Su Yeon Kim Hwa Jeong Kang
Ji Ryun Lee Eunmi Choi Soo Hyun Kwon Mi Ea Lee Kiyomi Noda Ji Eun Bong Min Jung Kim Mi Seon Ha Jung Hae Park
Jeng Mi Yuk Young Mi Kim Yon Ju Ghou Hye Won Lim Hye Jin Hong Hye Young Chae Ji Ae Kim Hyun Joo Lee Min Jung Kim
Sandy Durand Althea Smith Joo Young Cho Hee Kyeung Hong Mi Ae Jung So Young Park Ji Hye Han Nobuko Ishida Ji Seon Baek
Elizabeth Michaels Marilyn Addison Kyung Ok Ji Young-Mi Pak Gum-Hee Kwon Kyung-Hee Choi You-Mi Kim Ji-Eun Jung Ji-Hyun Lee
Su-Jung Jung Kun Jung Yang Jeong-Hwa An Mi-Yeun Park Diane Braybrook Cheryl L. Hoard
Donna Koffel Peggy Kaune November 2007 Cherisse Gigli Denise Sherman Vicky Washington
November 2008 Mary Jennings Lisa Pomeroy Yoshi Paulovich Katherine Subramanian Duaine Oen Mary Arnon-Doran Linda Byington
March 2009 Cristl Arndt Kim Krost Becksun Park Lori Barr Dawn Larson
Lisa Davis Lora Cantele Deborah Halvorson
November 2009 Noel Gilligan Mi-Seon Ahn
November 2010 Susan Brougher
Reregistered Aromatherapists December 2005 Vivian Gifford Sharon Roemmel June 2006 Rachel Speranza December 2006 Patricia Adams Rachel Rudansky Jacquelyn Close
Mindy Green Priscilla Bauer Kelly HollandAzzaro June 2007 Diane Giddings Kayla Fioravanti Linda Bayer Karen McLaren
March 2008 Jean Brinker
March 2010 Kelly Swayne Marlita Joseph
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