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...I would also recommend checking with HR or the psychology training directors at the VA hospitals you are interested in . The saying goes, if you know one VA, you know one VA. They are very different. But I have heard that Jesse Brown VA (Chicago); Boston VA (Boston Consortium); Birmingham VA (UAB Consortium); Providence VA (Brown Consortium); and Palo Alto VA prefer PhD.
Thank you all for your answers!
I am curious to why some VA would prefer a PHD rather than a PsyD. I have searched some jobs at the VA and in the job summary none state research.
Example:
The incumbent will serve in the Santa Rosa Community Based Outpatient Clinic a satellite clinic of the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Duties include, but are not limited to: conducting intake evaluations of new referrals, conducting psychological and neuropsychological assessments, providing individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy and psycho education groups for posttraumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders, anger management, depression, chronic mental illness and psychiatric illness co-occur with medical illnesses.
So I am curious if you guys have any idea why some VA would prefer PHD's?
Probably depends on the individual VA and its supervisory staff. Some may simply be hanging on to the notion that the Ph.D. offers some greater degree of equivalence across training programs, while others may expect you to actively participate in at least a small amount of research (perhaps, if nothing else, at the program evaluation level). I don't know if the VA you specifically quoted here is one that prefers PhDs to PsyDs, though.
i dont think the degree itself has that much to do with it....at least 4 of my friends who completed the same PsyD program i did currently work for the VA.Hello,
I am interested in knowing if it is hard to get a job at the VA with a PsyD. I ask because in another thread someone said that they worked at a VA and they had no PsyD psychologist on staff.
If lets say one attends a university based PsyD. and obtains an APA internship, will the fact that one has a PsyD. diminish one's chances to get a job at the VA?
I was thinking maybe this has to do with clinical PsyD students not having the qualifications the VA is looking for and not due to the degree itself.
If you think this is the case, what qualifications are they looking for?
I know that one needs to have an APA accredited degree and internship but apart from that, what else?
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe some VA think PhD's are better due to the stigma of professional schools. I understand the reasoning, I would like to think University based PsyD's are another story.
If I am interested in working for the government( VA, civilian military , civilian Air force , CIA) would you recommend university based PsyD or PhD. I prefer a univesity based PsyD.( rutgers, baylor , widener etc.) because I am more interested in practice ( this doesn't mean I dont like research). But if a PsyD would seriously hinder my chances to work for the government I would consider looking at balanced PhD's in more detail.
Opinions ?
Thanks!
I am curious to why some VA would prefer a PHD rather than a PsyD. I have searched some jobs at the VA and in the job summary none state research.
Example:
The incumbent will serve in the Santa Rosa Community Based Outpatient Clinic a satellite clinic of the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Duties include, but are not limited to: conducting intake evaluations of new referrals, conducting psychological and neuropsychological assessments, providing individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy and psycho education groups for posttraumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders, anger management, depression, chronic mental illness and psychiatric illness co-occur with medical illnesses.
So I am curious if you guys have any idea why some VA would prefer PHD's?