Southwestern College & New Earth Institute (Art Therapy, Consiousness MAs)

[eLearner]

ASU's DBH - Clinical is like this. I'm sure I've come across other programs that are like this. The goal is not really to increase your knowledge of psychology or counseling. The goal is to get the doctor title for marketing purposes and for potentially higher pay.

I think some increase can happen with a DBH program, but with the two main programs (ASU and CGI) you only get 6 courses that are directly related to Patient care. The rest of the courses are more like something you'd find in a DHA program or an American Doctor of Health Science program.

It's hard to say if the DPC at Kairos is the same thing because the bulk of its courses are tied up in research/project/thesis work. The setup for that appears to be in the self-design territory, in which case the depth of what students get out of it is ultimately (with some guidance) up to them. If the guidance is there and it's proper it could be very useful, but the program has not been around for a long time and not much has been said about it on the web.