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Its the time of year where everyone is freaking out about what school to go to.
You don't need to go to an APA-accredited school to be a good psychologist. Don't forget that Beck, Adler, Jung, and even Freud did not go APA accredited schools.
You'll have to forgive the poor humor - I have been feeling quite sardonic today. By the way the joke is that they are all psychiatrists, not psychologists.
Here is the bottom line:
If you wan't to do nothing but private practice your entire life, go to basically any regionally accredited professional school and get a PsyD. If you graduate, there's ~80% chance you'll get licensed, which is all you'll really need to get by in the private practice you want anyways. If you don't get licensed, well you are technically a "doctor" anyways and you can teach at a community college or write a useless self-help book. Either way, you'll have student loans to repay for at least a decade, but you'll make enough to live a decent middle-class life. After you pay off your student and home loan as well as pay off your second mortgage (cause you'll have a mid-life crisis and buy a boat), you'll then have a (lower-end) upper-middle class life and work 10 hours daily (4 hours on the phone with insurance companies, daily) until you want to retire.
Since you'll have no pension and not likely have saved a lot of money, given your financial prowess in getting a $200,000 PsyD, you'll take a handful of your long-term clients (which you will have plenty of given you'll placate to them every session) and do rocking-chair therapy on your front porch of your home till you're demented. Near the end of your life, you'll regret not going to decent university-based PsyD program or to a funded PhD program so you could have done research, teach, consult, or do something else meaningful with your life (like help someone).
That's the bottom line. Anyone want to correct me or add to the fun?
You don't need to go to an APA-accredited school to be a good psychologist. Don't forget that Beck, Adler, Jung, and even Freud did not go APA accredited schools.
You'll have to forgive the poor humor - I have been feeling quite sardonic today. By the way the joke is that they are all psychiatrists, not psychologists.
Here is the bottom line:
If you wan't to do nothing but private practice your entire life, go to basically any regionally accredited professional school and get a PsyD. If you graduate, there's ~80% chance you'll get licensed, which is all you'll really need to get by in the private practice you want anyways. If you don't get licensed, well you are technically a "doctor" anyways and you can teach at a community college or write a useless self-help book. Either way, you'll have student loans to repay for at least a decade, but you'll make enough to live a decent middle-class life. After you pay off your student and home loan as well as pay off your second mortgage (cause you'll have a mid-life crisis and buy a boat), you'll then have a (lower-end) upper-middle class life and work 10 hours daily (4 hours on the phone with insurance companies, daily) until you want to retire.
Since you'll have no pension and not likely have saved a lot of money, given your financial prowess in getting a $200,000 PsyD, you'll take a handful of your long-term clients (which you will have plenty of given you'll placate to them every session) and do rocking-chair therapy on your front porch of your home till you're demented. Near the end of your life, you'll regret not going to decent university-based PsyD program or to a funded PhD program so you could have done research, teach, consult, or do something else meaningful with your life (like help someone).
That's the bottom line. Anyone want to correct me or add to the fun?
