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Greetings,

Thoughts on Liberty University's Online PhD Programs in Psychology? I would like to pursue this degree for my own benefit but I wonder if anyone has any experience with these programs???
 
Mikey Mikey said:
Can I ask why?
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The online nature, the vague nature ("psychology" is an extremely broad field), the... morally questionable university, the lack of licensure eligibility, etc. If you really want a PhD to make you a better clinician, get a reputable, funded, APA-accredited one from a brick and mortar program.
 
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Mikey Mikey said:
Can I ask why?
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Give me 80k, I'll provide you with a reading list and some slides that will be more methodologically sound and useful than what this program will give you. You'll likely even save a good amount of money.
 
Mikey Mikey said:
To improve my own knowledge of psychology to benefit my current occupation (working in mental health).
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Getting an online Ph.D. is a very expensive way to improve your own knowledge. Looking at their website, it looks like the program is estimated to cost around $40,000. You mentioned benefiting your current occupation; how are you expecting the Ph.D. to do that?
 
Or just click the link below. Feel free to venmo me the difference in price between a Liberty PhD and Beck courses.

Beck Institute

If you are aren't interested in that, I'll give you readings, slides, and a 3 virtual Q&A sessions for $40k. Mostly to take money out of @WisNeuro's pocket.

Bonus: I'll keep my pants zipped for all pictures.
 
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WisNeuro said:
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Sanman said:
Or just click the link below. Feel free to venmo me the difference in price between a Liberty PhD and Beck courses.

Beck Institute

If you are aren't interested in that, I'll give you readings, slides, and a 3 virtual Q&A sessions for $40k. Mostly to take money out of @WisNeuro's pocket.

Bonus: I'll keep my pants zipped for all pictures.
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I don't appreciate either of you low balling my low balling.
 
35k, and for an extra 5 k, I will not keep my pants zipped for pictures. And for an extra $5k I will make sure to quote some hypocritical bible verses after the fact.
 
Mikey Mikey said:
To improve my own knowledge of psychology to benefit my current occupation (working in mental health).
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read books, articles. Go to CE trainings

Also, Liberty U=Protestant whiny nonsense
 
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Mikey Mikey said:
Greetings,

Thoughts on Liberty University's Online PhD Programs in Psychology? I would like to pursue this degree for my own benefit but I wonder if anyone has any experience with these programs???
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If this is just for your own benefit, I’d suggest attending workshops/certifications for deeper training in an approach or even taking a few undergrad classes if you didn’t take some of the elective psych classes the first time around. Or auditing a course you’re interested in.

Online doctorates are not viewed favorably by anyone in our field for several reasons: they are predatory and expensive, they don’t typically lead to licensure, they don’t include any training in practice, they don’t include mentoring by faculty, and almost anyone can get admitted to them. They are the lowest standard of a doctorate you will ever see in our field. I try to steer folks as far away as I can for their own sakes, although certainly some folks choose not to take the advice of professionals in our field. But we do try to steer folks far away from these types of programs.
 
Just for grins, I checked out the program website. For the “general track,” an identified learning outcome is “learn effective clinical techniques.” So… learn about them without being able to practice them? Gonna need someone to explain that to me.
 
Mama Bear said:
Just for grins, I checked out the program website. For the “general track,” an identified learning outcome is “learn effective clinical techniques.” So… learn about them without being able to practice them? Gonna need someone to explain that to me.
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The main technique you learn is how to give the university your money, of course!
 
For anyone reading this thread thinking that the mocking tone is a display of snobbery, a word of unsolicited advice: this is how you would be seen by employers if you tried to apply for jobs with a degree from this or similar programs.

Don't do it.
 
Temperance said:
For anyone reading this thread thinking that the mocking tone is a display of snobbery, a word of unsolicited advice: this is how you would be seen by employers if you tried to apply for jobs with a degree from this or similar programs.

Don't do it.
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It is an odd world when people who are products of the public education system are considered snobs for not taking out massive loans to attend a private school owned by a rich dude who was handed the business by his daddy and had to take a leave of absence from his position with a $10.5 million severance package because he embarrassed himself at a yacht party.
 
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Sanman said:
It is an odd world when people who are products of the public education system are considered snobs for not taking out massive loans to attend a private school owned by a rich dude who was handed the business by his daddy and had to take a leave of absence with a $10.5 million severance package because he embarrassed himself at a yacht party.
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Proles rise up!
 
Liberty also just has a bad reputation in general, and I think you'd get stigma no matter which program you attended unless you stick to really conservative areas. But, even then you might run into issues because--from my experience--our field is pretty liberal.
 
cara susanna said:
Liberty also just has a bad reputation in general, and I think you'd get stigma no matter which program you attended unless you stick to really conservative areas. But, even then you might run into issues because--from my experience--our field is pretty liberal.
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This is what happened with their law school. It's a tier 4, which is on the level of diploma mills like Argosy, but the Bush Administration filled the DOJ with Liberty grads, because they were ideologically reliable.
 
cara susanna said:
Liberty also just has a bad reputation in general, and I think you'd get stigma no matter which program you attended unless you stick to really conservative areas. But, even then you might run into issues because--from my experience--our field is pretty liberal.
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Or the OP can just join Division 36, where most of the leadership actively tries to argue for conversation therapy and against LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination policies...
 
futureapppsy2 said:
Or the OP can just join Division 36, where most of the leadership actively tries to argue for conversation therapy and against LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination policies...
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Hey now. Don't you infringe upon the right of religious people to openly discriminate based on their shoehorned interpretations of scripture.
 
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