(01-20-2024, 12:11 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: @Erasec63, If you're looking at this particular institution, you may want to do a bit more research before you enroll with them. There are other options as I mentioned in your previous post. Here's the example option and post... If you need more info on others, you can always take a look at the graduate section and search... Link: https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid411753
I'm sorry, to which institution are you referring? Kingdom College? I have looked at Kairos, which isn't bad.
Kingdom College won't be taken seriously, and licensure will never happen with a credential from that outfit. Credibility is too important in the health professions to risk it with a questionable program.
None of those doctorates will lead to licensure. At least in Illinois. At most it will allow you to teach in a university, publish, etc. Why do you think it won't be taken seriously?
You're already a licensed School Psychologist, you're using this Kairos Doctorate for your personal & professional development as you stated earlier, for roughly $12K, that's an affordable option. There are others that are cheaper though, and these international ones may not be evaluated equivalent to RA unless you use Validential...
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None of those doctorates will lead to licensure. At least in Illinois. At most it will allow you to teach in a university, publish, etc. Why do you think it won't be taken seriously?
The Kairos DPC is for personal and professional development, specifically for licensed therapists with experience who are actively working in their field. I was critical of it in the past, but after more examination, I actually think they have the right idea behind what they're doing because students are placed in the company of other licensed professionals (regularly scheduled Zoom classes, meetings, and workshops are required) that can add to their repertoire as one can add to others as a licensed and practicing professional. Such requirements like they have can certainly enrich the experience for students.
As for Kingdom College of Natural Health not being taken seriously, it depends on who you need to take it seriously. If you plan to work in Natural Health/Alternative Medicine as an unlicensed professional, your colleagues and the people you'd be attempting to help won't mind because they'd all know what the situation is. If you're working in any state-licensed profession, much of what's taught will likely put you in a violation of scope of practice situation with the state in the profession you're licensed in if you try to apply some of it and something goes wrong, or someone just reports you for applying it. Then add on the fact that a number of KCNH's degree programs are in widely discredited modalities, so your peers are going to take you less seriously when they look up your school and the programs it offers.
Programs like Kingdom College of Natural Health are the types that you do in private for your own interest and self-satisfaction. Will you learn some things from that program? Maybe, it's just hard to know the extent of it as there is no credible third-party monitoring of its quality. With the issue being about credibility, having their name attached to you publicly wouldn't help that.
If you're looking to get licensed as a Psychologist outside of the School Psychology subfield, California Southern University has the least expensive license-eligible Doctorate in Psychology in western society at $35,970 (the average Doctorate in Psychology costs over $100,000 in the United States, and I have seen one as high as $313,000!!!). If you're looking to remain in School Psychology but give yourself more licensable options, CSU could be a viable add-on. Or, if more licensing isn't a goal and it's strictly about education, the DPC from Kairos for roughly $12,000 is the least expensive Doctorate in the field that I'm aware of in western society. With either degree program, you're probably already eligible to start as it sounds like you have a Master's in a counseling/mental health field which you'd need to enter CSU, and you're licensed which you'd need to enter Kairos' DPC.
(01-21-2024, 03:43 AM)bjcheung77 Wrote: You're already a licensed School Psychologist, you're using this Kairos Doctorate for your personal & professional development as you stated earlier, for roughly $12K, that's an affordable option. There are others that are cheaper though...
I just discovered that a director/Professor of Idaho State University graduated from the professional program at this university. The picture was taken from EIU Facebook page
07-24-2024, 07:42 PM (This post was last modified: 07-24-2024, 07:45 PM by freeloader.)
(07-24-2024, 06:18 AM)stevennguyen15691 Wrote: I just discovered that a director/Professor of Idaho State University graduated from the professional program at this university. The picture was taken from EIU Facebook page
Also, what does “My colleagues at Idaho State University are impressed & has made a positive impact on my on going research work” mean?
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