is research needed for psyd

[jimiidoc]

To get accepted into A PsyD program do you need to do research?

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[WisNeuro]

Depends, do you want to get into a legitimate PsyD, or a diploma mill?

 

[EnPsychlopedia]

For a good one, yes.

 

[PsyDr]

You're the admission committee: You have 6 slots available. You have 100 applications. You need to start whittling down the applicant pool in a time efficient way. How do you start? GRE is probably an easy way to sort. Then GPA. Does research experience fit in there?

 

[quickpsych]

To get accepted into A PsyD program do you need to do research?

Having research completed prior to applying, having to do research in the program? Or both?

As others said a legit program is going to look at these things and also the rigor and quality of even just dissertation research is going to be miles ahead of a diploma mill.

I went to a Masters program where a thesis wasn’t required but I pushed to do one and was first student in that program in decades to do one. My undergrad was not in psych and I had limited undergrad psych coursework although did do research in undergrad in another field of study. The thesis was one of the best academic decisions I ever made and no doubt helped my doctoral program chances and gave me a good foundation for preparing for the dissertation process.

On flip side I Had an older coworker I was working with while finishing up last bits of my dissertation (hey I needed a job after years of grad school!) ,and while the guy was an alright therapist overall, he was going to a known online diploma mill. He showed me the criteira, as well as picked my brain for troubleshooting for dissertation completing and the “rigor” of it was just unfortunately laughable. It was clear the dissertation “chair” had little understanding of even basic statistics, the literature review was thin and methodology was something out of a grade school science project. The guy thought he was doing intensive work and doing real research; but the hardest criteria was meeting the minimum page count the diploma mill required. I have no idea if he ever finished the program he was years behind at that point but still paying them. His “internship” was some 2 or 3 week visit to the diploma mill’s required “physical” presence and I still to this day have no idea what or how other hours were accrued as there was no psychologist at the place we were both working at; I’m not even sure he ever got licensed and may have just gotten some counseling certificate eventually. Don’t be him.