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Are they only looking at undergraduate degrees?
Yep. This has been around for a couple of months, and APA even issued an official statement about how misleading it was, due to it only focusing on bachelor's degrees while including the rare undergrad major of "clinical psychology."
I'm actually guessing it comes from a sketchy school that is capitalizing on people not knowing that they can't practice with it, which would also account for the higher unemployment rate.
I wouldn't be surprised if schools offered BA-level "concentrations" but I've also never heard of a degree in it. Could well be out there though - the above is just a guess.
Actually, my friend is majoring in Clinical Psychology at the Bachelor's level at Tufts University. Just an anecdote, but wanted to through it out there that all clinical psych BA / BS programs aren't at sketchy schools
The university that I do my doctorate work at has quite a few undergrad degrees in psychology (I think it's like 5, but I havent really paid attention to be honest). It's a well established state university.
I think the idea isnt to take advantage of naivity and lead people on to think they can practice as much as it's intended to help steer undergrads that are attracted to a certain area of psychology into coursework and interaction with professors that will suit their needs. IMO, probably of very little help but very good intent.