Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision by Tom Brooks April 30

0:00Let's go ahead and get started then. Minimize this screen. Hopefully, all of you can see the blue screen that says Divine Mercy University. If not, raise your hand, please, and let me know, but we'll go ahead and get started. So for those of you who don't know about Divine Mercy University, we were born as a Catholic Catholic understanding a Catholic understanding of the person, marriage, and the family. The university offers a doctoral or a PsyD degree in clinical psychology, a doctoral PH degree in counselor education and supervision, which is what we're here to talk about today, a master of science degree in psychology, and a master of science in counseling, and then we have a certificate in spiritual direction.

1:10Won't go through all of the vision and mission, but the the part that's kind of important on the mission side, the university provides students an appropriate academic and educational environment that supports the integration of science, scholarship, and a Catholic Christian understanding of the person through a rigorous, critical, and objective search for a truth. It assists the students intellectually, humanly, and professionally as they prepare themselves to respond to their location as a mental health professionals or as men and women helping professions. The university's mission also involves dialogue with its integrative approach of practitioners, scholars, and cultural leaders nationally and internationally.

1:55And in case you're wondering, we run about 20% international student wise. So as I mentioned, we're here to talk about the PhD in counselor education supervision program. It's a 90 credit doctoral program that builds on DMU's master's in counseling, clinical mental health health counseling program as a foundation incorporates 30 credits from the program or the 90 credit doctoral program. Students with graduate degrees in counseling or related fields from accredited institutions can transfer up to 30 credits into the t PhD program depending on courses taken in their prior graduate programs. The doctoral program requires an additional sixty credit hours of coursework addressing professional roles in five areas, counseling, supervision, teaching, research and scholarship, and leadership and advocacy.

2:57Additionally, students are required to complete internship experiences in advanced counseling, supervision and teaching, and a doctoral dissertation of original research. Students are also required to travel to complete three extended weekend residencies in the duration of the program. The residencies are designed as working residencies where students gather to encourage each other, practice skills they are work learning, and focus on the completion of the dissertations. The PhD in counselor education and supervision program, its curriculum is aligned with premier industry programmatic standards. Program requirements. So, again, transferring in 30 credit credits from our previous master's degree, what you would have left is the following.

3:48Seven core content courses, three courses in internships, two courses in integration, three courses in research, and 17 credits in dissertation research and write. The program is really set up for a full time participation. It's also meant to be something that allows you all to continue your day jobs as they say. It is a rigorous program, but it was designed with working, counselors in mind. So the idea is that you don't really need to go anywhere or outside of what you're doing to work on, like, an internship or these other things. A lot of folks will get it done pretty quick. Some will take longer. As you can see down there where it says degree time limit, you have up to seven year calendar years from the date that you start the program, and we have a fall semester, spring semester, and summer semester.

4:51Doctoral students must remain continuously enrolled until they've completed all program requirements, including the dissertation. So you have up to seven years to complete it based on what we know. Most folks will get it done between two and a half to three and a half years. And the reason that it we think that way is unlike a lot of programs that you go into at a PhD level, you don't wait until the very end to start worrying about what your dissertation is gonna be on. At DMU, the director program director and, the vice president of global campus decided that, ideally, everybody should get through this in in a pretty quick time, but they moved most of the stuff up front where you're gonna work with a a dissertation I'm sorry.

5:50Dissertation team and your adviser so they can work on figuring out what your dissertation will be on, And it allows you to build on that throughout the program. So when you get to the end, you're not sitting there trying to figure out how am I gonna write this, you know, you know, dissertation and defend it and everything else. And and, ideally, you were already kind of there. Again, you will have support from a dissertation, research and divide I'm sorry. Let's see. You will have, a dissertation chair. You'll where you'll work on research design and methodology courses, library resources, and three residencies as we mentioned earlier. You'll also have folks that, you'll have an academic adviser.

6:45They'll be working with you. And this is in addition to your instructors. At Divine Mercy University, we're kinda small in our program, and we try to keep it that way actually. And it allows more interaction with your professors, your chair, your dissertation committee, and so on. As me mentioned earlier, there are three residencies. They're either three days or four days. If there are four days, they start on Wednesday and they go through Sunday afternoon. And if it's three days, you start on Thursday evening through Sunday afternoon. They are at our campus, and we're located in Sterling, Virginia. We're pretty close to, Dulles International Airport for anybody who would have to fly in. But if you look up Dulles International Airport, our address would find exactly where we're at.

7:37The participation in the residency is mandatory for all students. Since the residency includes group activities, the missing parts would be disruptive for the overall learning environment. Attending the entire time is obligatory to receive credit for the residency. If a student is not able to participate in the residency, they can attend the next scheduled residency. The student will receive an incomplete with a course connected with the residency until the residency is successfully completed. The residencies are as follows. In week four of your first year, you'll start out in CS seven forty, which is the advanced seminar on professional identity, legal, and ethical issues. In week eight of your second year, you'll take the CES seven ninety one internship two supervision.

8:25And then week one in what would be the third year or, you know, about a half a year, would be the CES eight ninety nine, dissertation research and writing five. Alright. So if you're interested in applying to the program, there's a couple different things that need to happen. First, after this, if you're interested and you you have not already applied, we would set up an interview between yourself and and me to walk through the program again. I have several questions that I would need to ask you. I would be able to answer any of your particular questions and and then go from there. If you decide to apply, you would need to, have a master's degree in counseling or related mental health field from an institution accredited by an agency recognized by the US Department of Education.

9:26Preference will be given to applicants who are professionally credentialed in mental health occupation, clinical or school counseling, marriage and family therapy, social work psychology, etcetera. Those accepted without such credentials will need to take the necessary extra courses and internships for those credentials before graduating from the PhD in CES. So, basically, you need to be a licensed counselor, psychologist, somebody else like that, and you do need to have your master's. In addition, you would need a graduate degree cumulative GPA minimum score of three point o on GPA on four point scale, complete the application process, which includes the application for admissions document, and this you would do online.

10:15One recommendation form from an academic reference. If you believe you may have trouble obtaining an academic reference, you would just need to contact me, and we would talk about your options outside of that. And there's many. There we have we know that there's a lot of folks that are coming into the program that have been out of school for ten, twenty, even thirty years, and and, you know, it would be hard for them to find somebody to do them way back when. You would also need to submit your official transcripts from all post secondary institutions even if a degree was not awarded. Submission of essays is noted in the application for admissions document and two video clips of clinical work, role play, and and a teaching slash presentation, both a minimum of twenty minutes each.

11:06So I get a lot of questions on this. Again, there's two videos. One is actually on your clinical work. You can either do as many most of you are in a practice. If you have work that you filmed, as long as you meet the FERPA and HIPAA standards, you could supply that, or you can do a role play if you feel more comfortable doing that and submit that. And then you would need one on either a teaching session or a presentation. And, again, those can be mock as well. But if you already have those items, even if they're forty minutes, you don't have to cut anything. You just need to give us at least twenty minutes. And I've had several folks that have submitted forty five minute videos, all kinds of different things already.

11:54We'd want we would need your resume. There is a $55 application fee. And as you can see on here, there's a waiver code, so hopefully you're writing that down. It's CCMMP1999. Availability for two video conference interviews after submission of all application materials. Your your first one is actually with me, and that's as soon as you submit the app just the paper of the first part of the application, we would have a discussion, and then we would talk through how you can work through submitting the rest of your application, which is the videos, the, essay recommendation, all those kind of things. So to get started, you would just need to do the first part, which is online. You'll go on to divinemercy.edu, and that would then go to academics and then go to the PhD in counselor education and supervision.

12:53You'll see the apply button. Most of the time, you can see it through the whole, website. And, once you start applying, it's pretty easy to figure out how to move through the process. And then after you finish getting your application completely together, you would do a group interview with other applicants and the CES faculty. And the way that works is you would be part of a group of four, and you would normally sit with either the program director, program dean, and usually a faculty member. At least two of those three would be in the interview. And, you know, they're gonna obviously ask each one of you questions, but the idea is to get you all to kinda work together a little bit, list of each other's answers, and then, you know, kinda walk through that.

13:41It's a very strong, in my opinion, way of of of doing a group interview for something like this because it helps you relax a little bit. It definitely helps in terms of hearing other folks, their answers, and things like that. This is not something the faculty is trying to trip you up on. They're trying to make sure that this makes sense for you. So you get your questions answered from them based on, you know, the academic side, and they they can understand you better to make sure this is something you're you're ready to do. I don't there's nobody on here that's international. Correct? K. I am Asian, but I am American too. American Asian. K. No. You're fine then. K. One question I get asked an awful lot is, how can I get a break on tuition?

14:36You go online again to divinemercy.edu, you'll find the tuition breakdown is in there. But DMU has spent a lot of time over the last six, seven years working with all kinds of different institutions to create what we call tuition reduction agreements. So most parishes not most. There's parishes and diocese around the country and and and, quite frankly, in other countries where we have tuition reduction agreements. So it knocks off anywhere from, you know, 10 to 20% of your tuition costs. We have articulation agreements with several universities. If you're affiliated with the military, either as a spouse, independent, active duty veteran, whatever, then we do honor pretty much all the military chapters as they say, plus the yellow program program.

15:34We also have DMU scholarships. As you can see in the bold red over there, last year, we awarded 2,300,000 in scholarships. So, you know, we are a nonprofit school. Our our vocation is to train, educate, and graduate mental health experts. We're not trying to make a million dollars. Again, it's a nonprofit. You know, our goal is to make sure we do better than break even every year, and then the rest we pass on to our our students. We do have Newman School Scholarships and CCMA, which is the Catholic Campus Ministry Association scholarships for anybody that's gone to a school. Focus is another one. We have Focus School Scholarship. So just between Newman FOCUS and CCMA, it pretty much covers the bulk of Catholic undergraduate schools and probably another three or 400 schools across the country.

16:34And each one of those also provides discounts and tuition reduction. If you want to learn more about scholarships, you would go to, again, the divinemercy.edu, find the financial aid area, and underneath the drop down, you'll see scholarships. If any of you are interested in loans and you're interested in applying at Divine Mercy, this is another thing you would need to write down. If you're looking at a federal loan, you would need to fill out the FAFSA, and you would use our school code, which is G38724, which is the the number down there in the red. So, hopefully, you know, some of you have already worked on that. If not with us, with others. And, you know, if there's something you wanna do, you'll, you'll go from there.

17:24So that was a pretty quick down and dirty on the program. Some of the requirements, both about the program and, admissions. And if right. So I think we can take everybody off of mute. If anybody has questions, I'll be more than happy to answer those questions. I think we lost one person. Tamika, I think you're you're already an applicant. I appreciate you showing up. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Fenely, anything I can answer for you now? Do you have any like you said, we could talk with you after this? Yes. If you go to divinemercy.edu and find our program Mhmm. You'll find, my Calendly link, which is also let me cover up that weird face. There you go. You can also see the Calendly link right there in red.

18:38Yes, sir. Okay. So, I'll do it. Uh-huh. So meaning, I need to I need to do an appointment with you to to do it. We need to we need to go through a, just a quick interview. Mhmm. I just need to, you know, ask you a few questions, make sure I answer any questions you may have. And then, if you're interested in the application process, I can tell you how to get started. Yes, sir. I'm very much interested, so I'll do it. Okay. Very good. Alright. Any questions right now that I can answer real quick? For you, no. Not not that I am thinking of right now. I will just do it with you later. Okay. Perfect. Alright. Tamika, anything from you? No. I don't have any questions right now. Okay. Excellent. Well, ladies, I appreciate your time.

19:33I'm glad to to talk with you again, Tamika. And if you got any questions, give me a yell tomorrow, and I'll I'll be more than happy to answer them. Eileen, if you wanna go ahead and get on my calendar, I'd love to talk with you as well. I'm doing it right now, sir. I will just do it because I also have Calendly. But then I'm gonna I'm gonna do this on my own on in here. Yes. Alright. Alright. With that being said, I'm gonna go ahead and end the session for everybody. I appreciate you showing up and and listening, and I look forward to talking to you. Oh, Oh, mister Brooks, I did have one question. I'm sorry. No. That's okay. What's your what's your question to me then? It was about the, the transcript.

20:17So we would need to submit the transcript, directly to the admissions department. Yes. So remember when you were loading stuff up, there should be if you're doing the unofficial, you'd submit them through that portal. Otherwise, they'll come into the admissions area, yes, and then they'll get forwarded to the registrar. If you have a university that does them electronically, we do accept electronic transcripts as well. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that I send it to the correct place. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Thank you, ladies. Have a good night. Thank you so much. Thank you. Sir, I'll do it right now, and then I could see also exactly when is it supposed to. Right? Because I'm just doing it right now, the Calendly, appointment.

21:12Okay. I'll when we get off, I'll look it up, and I'll go ahead and, make sure that I say yes to it. Okay? Yes. I will. I'm just doing it right now. Thank you. Okay. Alright. Thank you all. Bye bye. Bye.