QUESTIONS: What Does It Take To Earn A Ph.D. In Psychology ?

Oct 10, 2018 | Yosemitest

[Yosemitest]

Since there is so much attention on Christine Blasey Ford's accusation against (now) Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh,
I'd like to know
just how much training and education on what specialties it takes to become a Doctor of Philosophy in educational psychology .
What does it take to earn a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology ?
What does it take to earn a Master’s Degree in Epidemiology ?
What does it take to earn a Degree in Experimental Psychology ?
Wouldn't a person be required to learn how to identify and counter a person's attempt to 'control and manipulate' the conversation ?
How many different types of mental disorders would a person be required to study , to earn those kind of degrees ?
Would a person who earned those degrees know how to manipulate their own voice characteristics to put a person with those types of mental disorders at ease ?
Just how 'naive' would a person be who earned all those different degrees, and worked over many years in those career fields ?
How many different people would a person who has earned all those degrees, have to observe, as an apprentice, before they could properly identify a person's psychological problems ?



Let's read part of Christine Blasey Ford's "Prepared Statement".

DR. CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD:
Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Feinstein, members of the committee.
My name is Christine Blasey Ford.
I am a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.



I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in experimental psychology in 1988.
I received a master’s degree in 1991 in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University.
In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Southern California.
I earned a master’s degree in epidemiology from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2009.
....

I welcome any other questions that might shed some light on just how 'naive' Christine Blasey Ford really is.

[Yosemitest]

In short, I'm not buying Christine Blasey Ford's statement as the truth of what actually happened .
I agree with Rush :

that her statement
"... was not credible !
It isn’t credible today ! ...
I think this was rehearsed and scripted. ...
How do you get to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee ?
Practice, practice, practice. ..."

[Delta 21]

Prize in every box!

[WASCWatch]

All those degrees require is a willingness to keep a seat warm for several years, and parents with a lot of money.

It’s really that simple, and Ford greatly inflated her credentials.

[thoughtomator]

The most essential non-negotiable requirements are certain knowlege that one has a very serious mental problem, and a delusion that a self-directed cure is possible.

[pepsionice]

In today’s dollars, it’s a grand total of $400,000 if you count tuition, lodging, and essentials. These colleges mentioned are all on the high side of cost.

[bray]

My son is in his 5th year of his PHd in Child Psychology. It takes 6 yrs of grad school and 1 year of internship.

[bray]

Actually, Psychology is one of the few programs that if you get in it is all paid for. The odds are around 100-1.

[JohnBrowdie]

an inability to get an advanced degree in an actual science.

[Secret Agent Man]

Money and breathing.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

No, it varies widely with the program/university.

[lonestar67]

PhD in Ed psych is most difficult.

It is deep radical left brainwashing.

With these degree sets she LOATHES this nation and will do anything to do it. The degrees equip her to engage in deep self deception so she can be any necessary persona to destroy another.

[W.]

Niles Crane, Psychiatrist— a really dumb blonde receptionist answering the phone on Frasier...said Psychiatrist in four syllables. Fun show, but everyone except Frasier was queer as a three dollar bill.

[Yosemitest]

"The degrees equip her to engage in deep self deception
so she can be ANY necessary persona to destroy another."

That's what I HIGHLY SUSPECTED !

[itsahoot]

What does it take? Money and a lousy program director that has to pass their students or become a failure.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

An absolute belief in seance based Bulls$$t and the paranormal.

http://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2011/07/occult-world-of-cg-jung.html

[Henchster]

QUESTIONS: What Does It Take To Earn A Ph.D. In Psychology ?

ANSWER: A squeaky voice and a pair of Groucho Marx glasses.

[bigbob]

No aptitute for actual science is a prerequisite. With the exception of experimental psych, rat runners do actual science but pretty much of the rest is bullshit.

[SuperLuminal]

It takes extreme mental instability...

[dynoman]

Sounds about the same as my daughter in law. Her PhD is geriatric psychology. She worked hard for it, she’s at a VA hospital.

[VietVet]

I can’t speak for the field today, but back in 1966 you had to be in the 95 %-ile in grades and the Graduate Record Examinations just to get into a good graduate school in psychology, much less earn an advanced degree. And you were expected, if not required, to stay in the program full time and complete your course work in about 4 years; some ‘slack’ time was allowed to complete and present your thesis. (which time you usually spent working on research for your Professor, which research tied in with your thesis topic).

10 years later, it was possible to complete your course work by attending night school, (of necessity part-time) and writing your thesis on your own time (under your Professor’s supervision), and thus earn your advanced degree in 6 to 8 years of part time study, while working in the field.

Today, or more to the point, 18 to 20 years ago when Prof Ford was completing her advanced degree programs, who knows?