I have read so much mis-information about Saybrook Graduate School I thought I'd set the record straight:
1. Saybrook is not an online school, it is a distance-education program with significant residential requirements to the extent that students who are interested in clinical licensure can fulfill residential requirements through annual residential conferences.
2. Students have been clinically licensed in over 28 states (Clinical Psychology/Licensed Psychologists).
3. Sayrbrook grads who have taken the EPPP have pass rates and scores higher than the vast majority of test takers from presumed more prestigious and "better" schools.
4. Saybrook has been called the Harvard of distance-education and according to the late Michael Mahoney has the best psychology department in the country. This from a UCal-Berekely PH.D. social psychologist and professor at many brick and mortar institutions.
5. Saybrook grads have one of the highest publication rates of any graduate school in the country.
6. Saybrook is a bastion of critical thinking and critical research. It does not portend to subscribe to the status quo models of research in psychology and clinical training; rather it challenges them and exposes their weaknesses.
7. Saybrook is a true intellectual institution as opposed to a assembly line of mandated uncritical approaches to education and training in psychology; including the American Psychological Association's training and accreditation model that is FULL OF HOLES when viewed critically by real world practioner-researchers who recognize this medicalized model for what it is, an incomplete, exclusionary model that was meant to control psychology through protectionist policies that violate many of the tenets the APA supposedly subscribes to. More on this in my edited book; Integrative Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine: Perspectives, Practices and Research to appear in late 2008. The APA evidence-based training and practice template doesn't even come close to attaining a high level in the evidence-chain/hierarchy as is apparent by the manner in which it accommodates and accredits disparate programs with divergent perspectives, methods and practices; so long as they are willing to pay for the process and demonstrate adherence to professional organization and education. So it's not necessarily about what you do or practice, but how, and such does not foster what accreditation purports and sells to the laity. BTW, Saybrook is seriously considering applying for APA accreditation for a new PsyD program in Clinical Psychology.
8. The recent accreditation issue relates to strategic planning and institutional vision and NOT to any substantive matters that are at the core of doctoral level education and will easily be rectified by better conveying what it already does more succinctly.
9. The accomplishmemts of Saybrook's graduates says it all.
10. For more on a successful Saybrook grad. see
www.americanboardofsportpsychology.org (link to Chair's Page) and take a look at my pre and post-doctoral history and publication and presentation list; add four more contracted books and six research publications to the list.
11. To one smarty-pants on the list; seek no more; I won the APA Division 47 Dissertation Award for 2001 beating out scores of students from traditional schools with both my Master's thesis and dissertation not only being published in prestigious peer-reviewed professional journals, but also being the basis of two academic books.
12. So, please, know-it-alls, do your research before you slime a great institution with your non-truths. Show that you are capable of critical analysis and investigative research.
Well you have to say that or I could... throw stuff next time I see you. haha. But thanks.
