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More information to provide artificial support for your agenda and you are slandering these programs. They are all regionally or APA accredited. You need to read the definition of a Degree Mill or Diploma Mill and stop spreading inaccurate information. How is it that graduates from these programs work in Major Medical Centers, Universities, and State and Federal programs, if they are not qualified professionals. To be a licensed psychologists you have to meet standards including EPPP, oral exams, and pre/postdoctoral training. Again, stop this insanity as these are not Degree Mills, they never were Degree Mills....and you are working from your own agenda based on greed or jealously.
In addition to the above posts/responses, no one has ever said that NO graduates from these programs are competent, talented practitioners. It's been frequently mentioned that some individuals from these programs are indeed great practitioners and go on to lead successful careers; they likely would've been successful no matter where they went. However, it seems to often be the case that these individuals had to spend significant time seeking out external opportunities that were in no way guaranteed or directly offered by their training programs.
The point being made is that the modal graduate from these programs, in the experiences of many faculty, training directors, and other trainees, comes out (or at least present to internships) with weaknesses or outright holes in training owing to the programs not providing adequate guidance, support, and opportunity. I feel that it is a program's responsibility to ensure that its students have access to all of the resources they need, through the program itself and its relationships in the community, that will lead to successful completion of all steps of training and set one up for successful practice/research in psychology. The programs being discussed here and elsewhere seem to have trouble consistently meeting those responsibilities for all or most of their students.
As for the $30k number I mentioned, it's very easy to see from whence it came: $13-15k stipend + $10-20k in tuition waivers (remember, many/most grad students would be paying out-of-state tuition if not for assistantships which automatically qualify them for in-state status) = upper-20's/lower-30's per year. For a 20-hour/week commitment. Adjunct faculty generally aren't salaried by universities, and typically seem to receive roughly $3-5k per class that they teach.
Edit: As for who I am to question APA standards--I'm a trainee and future psychologist, which gives me all the footing I need to critically evaluate these criteria. More than that, I'm an individual who attended an APA-accredited graduate program, am in an APA-accredited internship, and will be heading to an APPCN-member and soon-to-be APA accredited post-doc who has reviewed the APA standards, and realizes that if my programs had adhered only to these standards rather than exceeding them, I would've been in trouble.
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