WEBVTT 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:09.380 But on it is gonna be me, Jo Drennan. 00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:14.415 I am the, admissions advisor in I'm very honored to have Doctor. 00:00:14.495 --> 00:00:15.615 Clousely with us. 00:00:15.615 --> 00:00:23.235 She's the program chair of our master's in psychology degree, 100% online, and, very interesting background. 00:00:23.455 --> 00:00:33.430 And, you know, she earned her master's in counseling through Columbia International University and received her doctorate at the University of Texas in Dallas. 00:00:33.730 --> 00:00:47.405 And, you know, her, I guess her focus has been on, you know, focus childcare for low income, ethically diverse children during the time she taught statistics and marriage and family counseling. 00:00:48.025 --> 00:01:00.480 And then she had lived with her family in Stuttgart, Germany for six years, and she still taught online, a lot of research methods and has been she's still adjunct, at Columbia University. 00:01:01.420 --> 00:01:12.375 And her current research are in, areas of spirituality and depression in college students and approaches to self care amongst individuals who work full time in the ministry. 00:01:13.175 --> 00:01:17.255 And she's happily married and a proud mother of four lovely girls. 00:01:17.255 --> 00:01:25.835 And in her free time, she enjoys long walks playing the piano and bassoon and enjoying a good cup of coffee. 00:01:26.440 --> 00:01:31.580 And without further ado, I would like to have, doctor Kostley speak. 00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:32.840 Great. 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:33.900 Thank you so much. 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:35.660 Welcome, everybody. 00:01:36.440 --> 00:01:38.040 So good to be here. 00:01:38.360 --> 00:01:45.685 I'm gonna give a little bit just a overview input into kind of who we are as a program, the masters of psychology. 00:01:46.225 --> 00:01:55.840 And then, Jodran will kind of follow-up kinda on some of the logistics pieces on how to enroll, how to get the necessary information you need. 00:01:56.140 --> 00:02:02.880 So as we jump in, I'm gonna share my screen to, just have a couple slides to kinda guide us through our discussion. 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:13.025 So, as we start thinking about the study of psychology, first question is why study psychology? 00:02:13.885 --> 00:02:17.985 So, if you are out there, I know at least 10 of you are there. 00:02:18.350 --> 00:02:19.150 Tell me your thoughts. 00:02:19.150 --> 00:02:21.010 What why are you here tonight? 00:02:21.150 --> 00:02:22.770 What intrigues you? 00:02:23.150 --> 00:02:25.010 Why would you want to study psychology? 00:02:28.350 --> 00:02:32.130 And you can just put it in the chat or in the q and a. 00:02:37.235 --> 00:02:39.475 Well, I don't know if you you're able to unmute yourself. 00:02:39.475 --> 00:02:40.695 You can do that as well. 00:02:44.850 --> 00:02:52.870 Anybody have a and if not, you can kinda keep thinking about it and, bring something up later. 00:02:53.570 --> 00:02:54.070 Okay? 00:02:54.370 --> 00:03:03.245 Oh, here we have from, she says to try to learn how and why people act in certain ways. 00:03:03.625 --> 00:03:04.125 Excellent. 00:03:04.185 --> 00:03:09.325 And that is actually a core piece as a excellent, excellent thought. 00:03:09.625 --> 00:03:10.125 Right? 00:03:10.345 --> 00:03:15.900 Trying to understand why people do what they do. 00:03:15.900 --> 00:03:16.220 Right? 00:03:16.220 --> 00:03:21.040 And and getting a little deeper understanding to be able to help the community, Jacqueline. 00:03:21.340 --> 00:03:21.840 Excellent. 00:03:22.700 --> 00:03:26.560 I enjoy helping people to around me and help them on their journeys. 00:03:27.580 --> 00:03:28.080 Excellent. 00:03:29.395 --> 00:03:32.615 And so helping people understand the thinking of the human race. 00:03:32.995 --> 00:03:33.975 Very, very good. 00:03:34.515 --> 00:03:39.095 Then the last one, to better understand the people around me, help them on their journeys from Seth. 00:03:39.635 --> 00:03:40.135 Great. 00:03:40.675 --> 00:03:41.555 Excellent points. 00:03:41.555 --> 00:03:41.955 Right? 00:03:41.955 --> 00:03:46.090 So there are these common pieces that draw us to psychology. 00:03:46.550 --> 00:03:48.150 I've been in psychology for a long time. 00:03:48.150 --> 00:03:52.650 I actually when I was an undergrad, I was never gonna see do psychology. 00:03:52.870 --> 00:03:57.350 I had zero interest until I took mandatorily into to psych. 00:03:57.350 --> 00:04:00.315 And after that course, I was just like, man, I'm gonna take another class. 00:04:00.315 --> 00:04:01.355 I wanna take another class. 00:04:01.355 --> 00:04:06.735 This is so interesting to understand how we tick, right, what makes us do what we do. 00:04:07.195 --> 00:04:11.935 So I wanna take a couple of minutes as we think through, the master in psychology at DMU. 00:04:12.350 --> 00:04:18.770 Kind of what are those core pieces and kind of follow-up on some of your thoughts of what draws you to study psychology? 00:04:20.110 --> 00:04:39.505 First of all, just on this, on an intro, how we view education is that we do not see education as just, getting information to gain knowledge, even though that is a part of education, but we really view it as formation throughout the program. 00:04:40.010 --> 00:04:41.610 I love that statement from Aquinas. 00:04:41.610 --> 00:04:44.110 The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue. 00:04:44.810 --> 00:04:50.090 We need knowledge, but we also need growth and virtue to to flourish, to do well. 00:04:50.090 --> 00:04:50.590 Right? 00:04:50.810 --> 00:05:06.705 So, with a desire that our students do well and leave the program differently, than they entered, we have this approach that we take through every course in the program that we have a formative element, a view of formation in education. 00:05:09.380 --> 00:05:23.365 So my, so here's our three pieces that when I think our master's in psychology as a faculty, what we've kind of come, what, what is that, what we give and what you gain as you come into the masters. 00:05:23.985 --> 00:05:29.745 A couple of you said exactly what brings you to the program is understanding self and others. 00:05:29.745 --> 00:05:30.245 Right? 00:05:30.945 --> 00:05:37.110 Understanding myself better actually makes me more effective in just about any work environment. 00:05:37.170 --> 00:05:42.230 Can be leadership, can be service, can be ministry, and understanding others. 00:05:42.610 --> 00:05:45.730 We'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute. 00:05:45.730 --> 00:05:48.630 But having a paradigm, how look how I look at behavior. 00:05:49.605 --> 00:05:54.745 Second piece is kind of that formative piece of growing personally, spiritually, and professionally. 00:05:55.125 --> 00:05:55.625 Right? 00:05:56.005 --> 00:05:59.625 I'm probably not gonna leave the program the way I entered. 00:05:59.685 --> 00:06:07.830 I'm gonna as I learn, as I grow, as I reflect, I'm changing personally to to to have deeper knowledge of self. 00:06:08.050 --> 00:06:09.270 I'm gonna grow spiritually. 00:06:09.330 --> 00:06:18.310 We are a Catholic Christian program and, every single course is, integrated with theology, philosophy, and psychology. 00:06:18.915 --> 00:06:20.695 And we want everybody to grow professionally. 00:06:20.915 --> 00:06:21.155 Right. 00:06:21.155 --> 00:06:24.695 We want you to be able to go out in the workforce and be really well prepared. 00:06:25.635 --> 00:06:32.055 The third piece is that we want people to gain those skills of leading individuals and groups to flourishing. 00:06:32.870 --> 00:06:40.810 DMU as a whole school has this this deep view of the need to flourish as a created being in the image of God. 00:06:41.030 --> 00:06:47.050 So and we can be vehicles, we can be instruments to help others and grow and flourishing. 00:06:49.725 --> 00:06:52.065 So first of all, understanding self and others. 00:06:52.125 --> 00:06:54.525 That was kind of the few comments, right? 00:06:54.765 --> 00:06:56.045 Actually, we had a couple of comments. 00:06:56.045 --> 00:07:00.385 One of understanding self and others and one of helping others, right, towards flourishing. 00:07:01.325 --> 00:07:06.420 So at DMU, we have this integrative view of the person. 00:07:07.440 --> 00:07:09.940 I have loved doing psychology at DMU. 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:17.530 I feel like I've grown and learned a ton as a psychologist even though I've been a psychologist several decades at this point. 00:07:17.530 --> 00:07:22.415 But But it has such a deep view of the human person. 00:07:22.795 --> 00:07:33.920 So we go past what we do really well understanding research literature, but then we also pull in that deeper view of the person of seeing everybody as created, fallen, and redeemed. 00:07:34.460 --> 00:07:44.720 We see that that the journey through vocation and virtue as vehicles to to well-being and flourishing. 00:07:45.235 --> 00:07:54.215 The person will do well as they grow in virtue and and as they flourish in vocation, both professionally, relationally, and personally. 00:07:54.755 --> 00:07:55.075 Right? 00:07:55.075 --> 00:08:00.775 So so we look at the person volitionally, right, and free by nature of being created. 00:08:01.370 --> 00:08:13.070 So as we're studying psychology, we always pull in that deeper view of the person for what I would say is a small well rounded, view of the individual. 00:08:14.170 --> 00:08:21.425 The other piece is, that we help the psychological knowledge. 00:08:21.485 --> 00:08:22.465 I love psychology. 00:08:22.605 --> 00:08:25.905 I love like and I feel the more I read, the more I study. 00:08:27.245 --> 00:08:28.445 I still love psychology. 00:08:28.445 --> 00:08:28.685 Right. 00:08:28.685 --> 00:08:35.150 Because I feel like you understand the person and you have another way of understanding behavior. 00:08:35.850 --> 00:08:36.350 Right? 00:08:36.650 --> 00:08:42.570 And you see it, like, kids in a school setting, little Billy is is mean. 00:08:42.570 --> 00:08:43.070 Right? 00:08:43.210 --> 00:08:48.615 Well, as a psychologist, I also have another avenue to understand that behavior. 00:08:48.995 --> 00:08:51.095 At some level, all behavior is logical. 00:08:51.555 --> 00:08:52.055 Right? 00:08:52.115 --> 00:08:53.875 So so what is that anger? 00:08:53.875 --> 00:08:58.680 If I see anger in a person, we'd call that, a secondary emotion. 00:08:58.680 --> 00:09:01.820 There's probably always something under anger. 00:09:01.880 --> 00:09:02.120 Right? 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:04.940 Anger is never just an emotion in itself. 00:09:05.400 --> 00:09:07.500 There's always a deeper level. 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:15.635 So having a having a a paradigm, having having another lens to understand behavior, It's one of those great assets in studying psychology. 00:09:16.415 --> 00:09:20.515 So part of the core courses, right, seeing the person developmentally. 00:09:20.975 --> 00:09:21.375 Right? 00:09:21.375 --> 00:09:25.315 Working with a teenager is very different than working with a retiree. 00:09:25.950 --> 00:09:26.190 Right? 00:09:26.190 --> 00:09:31.250 How do we develop as human beings is one of those core piece of understanding functioning. 00:09:31.950 --> 00:09:51.585 We have, abnormal psychopathology, looking at risk and resiliency, understanding who is at risk towards psychopathology, what factors pose risk, and how can you create a culture and an environment towards well-being, flourishing, and resilience. 00:09:52.445 --> 00:09:57.680 And we're looking one of my favorite classes, biology, affective and cognitive basis for behavior. 00:09:58.140 --> 00:10:05.040 And we have motivation in there and a little bit of neuroscience, a little bit of biological basis of behavior. 00:10:06.460 --> 00:10:12.135 It opens the door to understanding how the person ticks in such a great way. 00:10:12.135 --> 00:10:22.555 And then we have social psychology, understanding culture and groups, and of course, statistics and research methods, which gives you another vehicle for looking at behavior. 00:10:23.175 --> 00:10:32.430 And we also have always one course that is truly philosophy theology to have another way of looking at human flourishing and functioning. 00:10:34.490 --> 00:10:39.310 The other part that's part of our program is growing personally, spiritually, professionally. 00:10:40.315 --> 00:10:40.795 Right? 00:10:40.795 --> 00:10:44.255 Part of that is one piece is a scientific mindedness. 00:10:45.035 --> 00:10:45.995 That's not knowledge. 00:10:45.995 --> 00:10:47.055 That's a skill. 00:10:47.195 --> 00:10:47.695 Right? 00:10:47.995 --> 00:10:55.120 That that when you get your master's in psychology, you go from non expert to expert. 00:10:55.340 --> 00:10:55.740 Right? 00:10:55.740 --> 00:11:06.160 People look to you as a person who is able to reason through maybe tensions, conflicts, needing conflict resolution. 00:11:06.540 --> 00:11:07.040 Right? 00:11:07.295 --> 00:11:21.955 So having scientific mindedness, that skill of looking at the evidence before you and looking at evidence based solutions, having psychological explanations for behavioral phenomena. 00:11:22.095 --> 00:11:22.590 Right? 00:11:22.750 --> 00:11:28.130 Rather than like, oh, he's just mean, it's like, okay, there's a different explanation for behavior. 00:11:28.510 --> 00:11:28.990 Right? 00:11:28.990 --> 00:11:34.850 We you can go further because you have another lens of understanding why people do the stuff they do. 00:11:36.685 --> 00:11:40.225 You you develop a deep psychological literacy. 00:11:40.525 --> 00:11:40.765 Right? 00:11:40.765 --> 00:11:43.905 We want people to be very well versed in psychology. 00:11:44.045 --> 00:11:45.825 So they have a very deep foundation. 00:11:46.285 --> 00:11:47.825 They're psychologically literate. 00:11:48.445 --> 00:11:53.300 And then there's kind of a piece of innovative, integrative applications to solve problems. 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:53.940 Right? 00:11:54.160 --> 00:11:57.140 That can be really helpful if you're leadership and management. 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:57.840 Right? 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:03.360 When when you have a group of people you're responsible for, how do you solve problems? 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:05.940 How do you lead your group through crisis? 00:12:06.535 --> 00:12:08.955 Really helpful for people who are in ministry leadership. 00:12:09.175 --> 00:12:14.295 We have a lot of people who are in ministry leadership who feel they need to understand the person better. 00:12:14.295 --> 00:12:15.735 They need to understand better. 00:12:15.735 --> 00:12:17.275 How do I lead people? 00:12:18.390 --> 00:12:20.710 How do I help in difficult situations? 00:12:20.710 --> 00:12:22.250 What if obstacles come? 00:12:22.550 --> 00:12:22.790 Right. 00:12:22.790 --> 00:12:26.170 How do you deal with conflict in a way that leads to flourishing? 00:12:26.710 --> 00:12:38.115 So we have those piece and, you solve problems as transformational leaders where people working for you and under you, become a better self because of your leadership. 00:12:40.415 --> 00:12:42.575 And then personal professional development, right? 00:12:42.575 --> 00:12:46.595 You are growing in all three areas of vocation, right? 00:12:46.740 --> 00:12:52.760 We look at the vocation of self and spiritual self, relational vocation, and professional vocation. 00:12:54.180 --> 00:12:55.620 I'm not gonna get into these. 00:12:55.620 --> 00:13:05.825 We have certain things embedded in every single course that you build on throughout the program so you can keep growing in those different areas. 00:13:07.485 --> 00:13:15.985 We have different concentrations so we can accommodate different professional career desires and needs. 00:13:18.890 --> 00:13:24.430 Then, last piece that some of you mentioned is, leading individuals and groups to flourishing. 00:13:24.970 --> 00:13:26.570 There's a couple different pieces. 00:13:26.570 --> 00:13:29.070 So we, oops, sorry. 00:13:30.185 --> 00:13:30.825 I went too far. 00:13:30.825 --> 00:13:31.565 That's okay. 00:13:31.945 --> 00:13:32.825 We have two pieces. 00:13:32.825 --> 00:13:42.205 There's a skills part where we have skills classes on empathic listening, relating skills, conflict resolution skills, so you can work with others. 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:46.660 And there's a piece of learning to communicate well. 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:53.620 So you can go out, especially in this world where people are not super positive sometimes towards Christian psychologists. 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:54.340 Right. 00:13:54.480 --> 00:14:11.035 But if you are really, really good and you have looked at your data well, and you communicate clearly, you can go out pretty much anywhere, let the data speak, let your knowledge speak and present a deeper view of the person and that and how the person flourishes. 00:14:12.160 --> 00:14:19.780 No matter if it's a Christian or a secular supportive, non supportive world, you have that skill of communicating well and clearly. 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:29.395 So this is like our graph that is kind of the overview of what the program is, and then we'll go a little bit more the different areas you can apply it to. 00:14:30.015 --> 00:14:37.395 The one is understanding self and others, both psychological base and integrative view of the person, Catholic Christian vision of the person. 00:14:38.030 --> 00:14:42.850 Growing personally and professionally, there's a scientific mindedness and personal professional development. 00:14:43.390 --> 00:14:47.650 And then there's the ability and the skills to lead individuals and groups to flourishing. 00:14:47.950 --> 00:14:50.850 There's ethical behavior in a very diverse world. 00:14:51.005 --> 00:14:54.065 And is interpersonal relating and communication skills. 00:14:54.605 --> 00:14:57.905 So if you think, okay, what what am I getting out of this program? 00:14:58.525 --> 00:15:01.105 That's kinda our core of what we focus on. 00:15:02.365 --> 00:15:19.420 And we have probably our program, which I love as part of leading and directing this program, we probably have the most diverse student body of any program at DMU and probably any program I have come to know at other schools or have colleagues and friends at other schools. 00:15:19.560 --> 00:15:22.325 We We have over 25% of students are overseas. 00:15:22.785 --> 00:15:31.205 We have people in Nigeria, Africa, different Indian, Africa, in India, African countries, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, and Australia. 00:15:31.905 --> 00:15:34.485 And one of our faculty members actually is in Australia. 00:15:35.850 --> 00:15:57.045 And we have, sometimes we have live Zoom meetings, sometimes I have people, the biggest problem is finding a time because sometimes I have people in Honolulu as well as in Nigeria and in The US, Canada, and South America, and finding a time, when we can all meet, which is such makes for such great discussion. 00:15:57.585 --> 00:16:00.725 I I teach statistics normally most of the time. 00:16:00.865 --> 00:16:05.285 So I had I did a live Zoom meeting to help everybody run the analysis they have to do. 00:16:05.510 --> 00:16:09.430 And I had a a priest, a father from Nigeria, and I felt so bad. 00:16:09.430 --> 00:16:11.030 It was 2AM, I think, for him. 00:16:11.030 --> 00:16:13.590 And he's like, I just need to talk. 00:16:13.590 --> 00:16:15.190 I was like, oh, I'm so sorry. 00:16:15.190 --> 00:16:26.545 But it was such a great so having his view and having the person from, Hawaii and and South America, it makes for incredibly rich discussion, which which I just have so enjoyed. 00:16:27.085 --> 00:16:31.505 Then professionally, we have also a huge amount of diversity. 00:16:31.645 --> 00:16:33.825 We have people who are in upper management of companies. 00:16:34.020 --> 00:16:41.700 We have people in Silicon Valley who have moved into leadership positions, and they're like, all I know is computers or engineering. 00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:43.240 I don't know anything about people. 00:16:43.700 --> 00:16:44.500 Can you help us? 00:16:44.500 --> 00:16:45.780 And I'm like, great. 00:16:45.780 --> 00:16:47.240 And they love the program. 00:16:47.775 --> 00:17:00.115 We have people who are in medical professions, nurses, doctors, physical therapists who work with chronic pain, and they just say, I just need a different view of the person to keep me motivated and doing what I do and do it well. 00:17:00.660 --> 00:17:12.020 We have Catholic educators, teachers from different public or private schools who wanna think through how does formation look and how do I do self care in the classroom when it's really hard? 00:17:12.020 --> 00:17:14.120 And a lot of kids come from hard backgrounds. 00:17:15.595 --> 00:17:27.535 We have a lot of people from ministry, focused missionaries, priests, people who work in spiritual formation, discernment at seminaries, and wanting to understand the functioning of the person better. 00:17:28.290 --> 00:17:34.150 And then we have a growing group of chaplains who, overseas military deployed. 00:17:34.930 --> 00:17:41.465 Some some people are just gone because they get last minute deployed and then at some point they resurface and they're like, great. 00:17:41.465 --> 00:17:42.125 You're back. 00:17:43.385 --> 00:17:48.285 And they find find the understanding of the person so helpful to their work as chaplains. 00:17:49.065 --> 00:17:52.105 And then we have a growing group of people who do the pre PhD. 00:17:52.105 --> 00:18:02.040 We've added pre PhD track who just come sixteen months, do a thesis, go on for doctoral work, and they just come to stop for the integrity of you, on psychology. 00:18:02.740 --> 00:18:04.660 And then many others. 00:18:04.660 --> 00:18:04.980 Right? 00:18:04.980 --> 00:18:06.520 We can list all of them. 00:18:06.980 --> 00:18:10.920 But as we close, I wanna give one little thing before we talk about concentrations. 00:18:11.475 --> 00:18:16.055 Kind of the question comes up all the time, clinical or nonclinical psychology. 00:18:16.755 --> 00:18:21.235 So we are the nonclinical program in in the global campus at DMU. 00:18:21.235 --> 00:18:23.495 We also have a counseling program that is clinical. 00:18:24.150 --> 00:18:25.510 And we always get this question. 00:18:25.510 --> 00:18:25.750 Right? 00:18:25.990 --> 00:18:28.010 So this is a nonlicensing program. 00:18:28.390 --> 00:18:30.330 Would I prefer a licensing program? 00:18:30.950 --> 00:18:41.375 And and the way I like to look at it and help people think through this is it really depends how how God has made you and how you like to work. 00:18:41.995 --> 00:18:51.935 So counseling, you see on the left, is really that one on one direct service, and it's has that restorative focus. 00:18:51.995 --> 00:18:52.495 Right? 00:18:52.610 --> 00:18:55.970 People come I do a little bit you know, I got a counseling degree first. 00:18:55.970 --> 00:18:59.830 I do a little bit of private practice, kind of two evenings a week. 00:19:00.370 --> 00:19:03.350 I mostly work with couples, which I also love. 00:19:03.650 --> 00:19:10.115 But a lot of my colleagues who do only counseling, they see 35 to 40 people a week. 00:19:10.115 --> 00:19:11.495 There's they don't do teamwork. 00:19:11.635 --> 00:19:12.935 They don't see colleagues. 00:19:13.075 --> 00:19:15.335 They just clock client after client. 00:19:15.955 --> 00:19:17.715 Some some people love it. 00:19:17.715 --> 00:19:19.255 Some people find that lonely. 00:19:19.395 --> 00:19:19.715 Right? 00:19:19.715 --> 00:19:22.940 Find that they would prefer working in a team. 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:26.620 They would prefer developing culture. 00:19:26.760 --> 00:19:27.160 Right? 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:35.500 So if you on the right here, if you think nonclinical psychology, the framework I like is broader interventions for groups and individuals. 00:19:35.800 --> 00:19:36.300 Right? 00:19:36.655 --> 00:19:42.355 You are not doing the one on one direct service with a restorative focus. 00:19:43.535 --> 00:19:49.235 You are more, you're developing cultures, you are developing broader interventions. 00:19:50.175 --> 00:19:57.460 If If you think human services, you're connecting people with, with resources to overcome adversity, right? 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:10.475 You are maybe a little more preventative and growth oriented in focus, and you're more in the business of creating broad interventions, creating cultures for flourishing and well-being. 00:20:11.015 --> 00:20:16.395 You've had quite a few people who've written their capstone, they've done their work on preventing burnout. 00:20:16.535 --> 00:20:17.595 They work in companies. 00:20:17.735 --> 00:20:27.380 They are either in ministry settings, have moved into leadership positions, and they wanna think through how do I create a culture for well-being? 00:20:27.840 --> 00:20:30.580 How do I create culture that prevents burnout? 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:31.455 Right? 00:20:31.695 --> 00:20:42.575 If you love working in a team, growth oriented, preventative, culture development, you're probably better in the nonclinical field. 00:20:42.575 --> 00:20:44.275 So for me, my doctorate is nonclinical. 00:20:44.575 --> 00:20:45.775 My master's was clinical. 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:54.220 I love my private practice, two evenings a week, but I love the rest of the week that I'm not only private practice. 00:20:54.360 --> 00:21:00.620 So for me, it was kind of that, I love a little bit of it and I feel I learn a lot by being with clients. 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:04.365 But my mind goes like, can we have preventative interventions? 00:21:04.425 --> 00:21:10.765 How about psychoeducational pieces where we can have a ton of people because I do mostly marriage counseling. 00:21:10.905 --> 00:21:15.005 Most people don't come to see me until they are doing pretty badly. 00:21:15.385 --> 00:21:15.885 Right? 00:21:16.260 --> 00:21:20.200 And most people don't come to counseling if you look across the population. 00:21:20.340 --> 00:21:26.360 So thinking, how can we get to people earlier, better in a preventative sense? 00:21:26.660 --> 00:21:27.960 To me, that is exciting. 00:21:28.020 --> 00:21:28.820 I love research. 00:21:28.820 --> 00:21:32.175 I love developing new ways of looking through stuff. 00:21:32.175 --> 00:21:32.675 Right. 00:21:32.815 --> 00:21:40.435 So kind of before the Lord exploring what is your professional journey, and what is interesting? 00:21:40.495 --> 00:21:47.150 What draws you kind of answers your question a little bit, but we need that clinical nonclinical psychology discernment. 00:21:48.650 --> 00:21:49.930 Then just one quick word. 00:21:49.930 --> 00:21:52.670 And I know Jill will talk about it a little bit. 00:21:52.970 --> 00:21:55.550 What are the specializations we're offering now? 00:21:55.690 --> 00:22:00.385 We have four, and then we have a self design for those who wanna pick and choose. 00:22:00.385 --> 00:22:04.785 We have a lot of our ministry people choose self design because they wanna they have different needs. 00:22:04.785 --> 00:22:07.285 They want one leadership class, one skills class. 00:22:07.825 --> 00:22:16.070 And we have leadership psychology just because we keep getting people who are in leadership settings, and they want to lead well. 00:22:16.610 --> 00:22:23.830 I love our view on, servant leadership, transformational leadership, virtue based leadership. 00:22:23.890 --> 00:22:28.370 It's kind of that counterpiece to how a lot of other leadership programs are secular. 00:22:29.765 --> 00:22:35.365 But it's a lot of new research coming and finding it incredibly effective. 00:22:35.365 --> 00:22:43.465 So you take three courses, in applied leadership skills, transformational leadership and leading groups and programs. 00:22:44.490 --> 00:22:46.190 Then we have marriage and family studies. 00:22:46.890 --> 00:23:09.255 People who work in the diocesan level, people who work in early intervention, family ministry, and marriage, pre K and A, post K and A, mentor couples, training mentor couples, who wanna understand family marriage family systems theory, interventions, and kind of the theology of marriage and family. 00:23:10.195 --> 00:23:14.720 With that, pre PhD, we've just started this year is fantastic. 00:23:15.020 --> 00:23:15.920 I love it. 00:23:16.220 --> 00:23:19.020 I'm working with two people right now who are doing their thesis. 00:23:19.020 --> 00:23:20.800 It's really you're doing research. 00:23:20.860 --> 00:23:38.175 So if you're interested in doctoral studies, eventually, if having a thesis and especially if you presented or published your thesis definitely gives you a heads up or just a little edge up to more competitive doctoral programs. 00:23:38.700 --> 00:23:41.280 Certain doctoral programs are very competitive in psychology. 00:23:41.820 --> 00:23:49.760 Coming with a master's with a thesis that's published definitely gives you a much wider open door in different programs. 00:23:50.300 --> 00:23:51.900 So you do a research project. 00:23:51.900 --> 00:23:55.775 You work with an advisor who walks you through all the steps of research. 00:23:56.155 --> 00:24:01.215 You run analysis, collect data, and present hopefully at a conference and publish your article. 00:24:01.755 --> 00:24:21.925 And then human services is for people like case management, adver helping people overcome adversity that this kind of, love have different friends who work in human services and, being that piece who connects them with the resources to not just stay at the hard place they are at. 00:24:22.705 --> 00:24:25.045 So we have a lot of people who've loved that concentration. 00:24:25.425 --> 00:24:36.390 And there's a certification you can get, that we don't offer in the program, but we qualify the program qualifies you to get, certified as a human service professional. 00:24:37.490 --> 00:24:39.430 So that's, kind of on the specializations. 00:24:39.650 --> 00:24:46.230 If you have questions and otherwise I mean, Joe, you can take over and give a little more of the other parts of the program. 00:24:47.285 --> 00:24:47.685 Alright. 00:24:47.685 --> 00:24:49.385 Well, thank you, doctor Clousely. 00:24:49.525 --> 00:24:54.805 That was, well said, and I, I can never say it like you can. 00:24:54.805 --> 00:25:00.470 So because you are the program chair and that's so, okay. 00:25:00.610 --> 00:25:14.310 So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go I'm gonna, share my screen with you and, go into some more details on, divine mercy, master's in psychology, 100% online. 00:25:14.805 --> 00:25:24.345 The only time you have to go to campuses for graduation, no GRE or graduate record exam required for admission. 00:25:25.045 --> 00:25:26.825 And, that well, that's me. 00:25:27.125 --> 00:25:28.905 And, next slide. 00:25:30.490 --> 00:25:36.510 And, anyway, we are accredited by the Southern Association of College and Schools. 00:25:36.730 --> 00:25:46.395 And some of the schools accredited in the Southern Association are Duke, you know, Florida State all the way over to Texas and, you know, Mississippi. 00:25:46.775 --> 00:25:50.855 And we were formed and chartered in Virginia in 1998. 00:25:50.855 --> 00:25:53.355 So we're a relatively young university. 00:25:54.650 --> 00:25:54.970 K. 00:25:54.970 --> 00:25:55.790 Next slide. 00:25:56.890 --> 00:26:02.990 And we're a Catholic graduate university dedicated to scientific study of psychology and counseling. 00:26:03.130 --> 00:26:06.110 And, you know, like I said, founded in 1999. 00:26:06.485 --> 00:26:14.345 And in 2015, we changed our name to Divine Mercy from the, you know, psychological science college. 00:26:15.525 --> 00:26:16.025 K. 00:26:18.085 --> 00:26:21.625 And how is our online masters in psychology different? 00:26:21.685 --> 00:26:29.400 Well, it's a synchronous, meaning when you're online, you can study when you want to. 00:26:29.700 --> 00:26:37.605 You know, whether you're an early morning person, you wanna do it late at night or on weekends, but, however, you still have to get the work done. 00:26:38.085 --> 00:26:46.105 And our, we have a very experienced faculty who are experts in their fields and, you know, and they try to help you individually. 00:26:47.045 --> 00:27:00.290 And, what's important to me and hopefully to you is we're infused by our Catholic Christian meta model of the human person, which means we deal with the whole person, you know, mind, body, spirit, heart. 00:27:00.590 --> 00:27:05.075 And we do it through, you know, psychology, philosophy, and theology. 00:27:05.375 --> 00:27:11.395 And we don't have religion classes per se, but we do infuse it in our our studies. 00:27:11.455 --> 00:27:13.155 So k. 00:27:13.295 --> 00:27:14.195 Next slide. 00:27:15.455 --> 00:27:20.410 And, anyway, these are some of the benefits in a psychology management psychology. 00:27:20.550 --> 00:27:23.770 I'm not gonna go go over them, but, you know, take a look at them. 00:27:27.430 --> 00:27:35.655 And, these are very important, and, you know, they can help you in whatever you are doing now. 00:27:38.995 --> 00:27:45.415 And like doctor Klausie was saying, evaluating critically one's own biases and assumptions. 00:27:45.475 --> 00:27:50.850 So in a program like this, you get to get to know yourself really well. 00:27:51.150 --> 00:27:58.530 And we know when you know yourself really well, you know, it it helps you help other people. 00:27:59.475 --> 00:27:59.975 Okay? 00:28:02.995 --> 00:28:09.095 And these are some of the advanced skills provided by the MSP, and I'll let you look at these. 00:28:17.490 --> 00:28:21.030 And, you know, and one of the big effectively communication. 00:28:21.650 --> 00:28:24.870 And, you know, a big part of communication is listening. 00:28:24.930 --> 00:28:25.810 You know, listening. 00:28:25.810 --> 00:28:27.585 I mean, are you hearing? 00:28:27.585 --> 00:28:28.465 Are you listening? 00:28:28.465 --> 00:28:37.585 You're listening empathetically to where you're putting yourself in the other person's place, and you're trying to understand it from where they are. 00:28:37.585 --> 00:28:46.790 So and then again, you know, doctor Kostley talks about program evaluation which are, you know, you always have to measure progress. 00:28:46.930 --> 00:28:48.050 How are we doing? 00:28:48.050 --> 00:28:48.610 How are we doing? 00:28:48.610 --> 00:28:50.850 Are we we we we getting to the right place? 00:28:50.850 --> 00:28:51.970 So okay. 00:28:51.970 --> 00:28:52.710 Next slide. 00:28:54.425 --> 00:29:03.565 And these are our five concentrations, marriage and family, human services, leadership, pre PhD, and self design. 00:29:04.105 --> 00:29:14.520 And, you know, self design, you can pick, you know, three electives, you know, human services, and marriage and family. 00:29:14.520 --> 00:29:18.600 They have, you know, very defined ones in leadership if you're in business. 00:29:18.600 --> 00:29:20.025 And but it's all online. 00:29:21.125 --> 00:29:23.865 And but it is not a licensure track. 00:29:24.165 --> 00:29:26.505 There is no no licensing involved. 00:29:26.805 --> 00:29:28.505 So the next one. 00:29:30.485 --> 00:29:35.730 But, these are are, well, eight core courses. 00:29:35.870 --> 00:29:41.710 Everybody takes the same eight core courses no matter what their concentration is. 00:29:41.710 --> 00:29:45.630 And, you know, we use we we preach. 00:29:45.630 --> 00:29:47.170 We talk about flourishing. 00:29:47.550 --> 00:29:49.010 Flourishing is very important. 00:29:49.605 --> 00:29:55.945 And, you know, as you said, that is, you know, you know, helping people feel better about themselves. 00:29:56.245 --> 00:30:01.125 And when you feel better about yourselves, you know, you can do big things. 00:30:01.125 --> 00:30:11.690 So and, but those are the, electives in marriage and family, marriage and family systems, flourishing relationships, and marriage and family interventions. 00:30:12.310 --> 00:30:12.810 Okay? 00:30:13.350 --> 00:30:14.330 The next slide. 00:30:15.035 --> 00:30:21.695 And human services, you know, this is more in your in your social work, same eight core courses. 00:30:21.835 --> 00:30:25.035 And the eight core courses, they they're very good. 00:30:25.035 --> 00:30:26.735 They will take you a lot of places. 00:30:27.350 --> 00:30:33.610 But, you know, relationship to intervention skills, personality, group counseling work are the three electives. 00:30:33.670 --> 00:30:34.810 And the next one. 00:30:36.470 --> 00:30:44.775 And, in leadership, you know, transformational leadership, leading people, programs, and organizations and applying leadership skills. 00:30:45.235 --> 00:30:58.840 And we have had, students who they're you know, they know their numbers that an MBA would teach you, but they want people skills, you know, how to understand people. 00:30:59.540 --> 00:31:01.640 And this will help them do that. 00:31:01.700 --> 00:31:07.320 And then the next one, which is pre PhD, same eight core courses. 00:31:07.700 --> 00:31:15.925 However, their the electives are, they are six, one and a half credit hour courses on how to write your thesis. 00:31:16.145 --> 00:31:22.325 And difference between your thesis and all you know, the other concentrations have what they call a capstone. 00:31:22.945 --> 00:31:32.370 But a thesis, you have to write your defend it orally in front of a group. 00:31:32.830 --> 00:31:35.330 Both the proposal and the actual project. 00:31:35.550 --> 00:31:36.510 So What's that? 00:31:36.910 --> 00:31:37.230 Fantastic. 00:31:37.230 --> 00:31:39.570 You you have two defenses actually for the thesis. 00:31:39.710 --> 00:31:46.275 Proposal defense, then you get IRB approval, then you collect data, analyze it, write it up, and then you then write it down. 00:31:46.655 --> 00:31:47.155 Exactly. 00:31:47.215 --> 00:31:47.715 Exactly. 00:31:47.775 --> 00:31:49.135 So a little bit more intense. 00:31:49.135 --> 00:31:53.955 And then, you know, the third one is, what we call self design. 00:31:54.600 --> 00:32:05.180 They can pick their electives from each of the three from, you know, marriage, family, flourishing, and, and, you know, group counseling. 00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:11.835 So, that is actually the most popular concentration. 00:32:12.455 --> 00:32:18.455 About 40% of our students are doing that because they, you know, they they want a choice in in their studies. 00:32:18.455 --> 00:32:20.475 So and then next one. 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:28.260 But these are some of the different areas in, that, you know, graduates can go into. 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:40.485 And these are areas that our graduates have gone into From industrial organizations, education, you know, teaching, psychology, community college. 00:32:40.485 --> 00:32:45.625 You have to have a master's in psychology as well as your if you're doing it in high school. 00:32:45.900 --> 00:32:49.520 And then, you know, social, mental health, ministry, government. 00:32:50.060 --> 00:32:57.040 You know, they need, you know, folks with a psychology background because they understand how people tick. 00:32:57.420 --> 00:32:58.560 And the next one. 00:33:00.425 --> 00:33:10.185 And then in, you know, health care, mental services, you know, case management, the, you know, foster care, you know, social work. 00:33:10.185 --> 00:33:16.070 Man, that is a, a tough work, and maybe some of you are in social work now. 00:33:16.290 --> 00:33:21.890 But what will a master's in psychology do to help you help people in that sense? 00:33:21.890 --> 00:33:23.030 And the next one. 00:33:24.945 --> 00:33:33.525 And then in, business, you know, in human resource management to, you know, sales representatives, you know, public relations. 00:33:33.585 --> 00:33:43.960 I mean, that's probably one of the biggest areas that a a psychology masters will I guess if you wanna make money, it's a good area to be in. 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:50.220 So and then the next one is the, you know, parishes and dioceses. 00:33:50.360 --> 00:34:04.605 We we get a lot of graduates who, you know, they they wanna understand people better to help with their community or their parish or their, you know, what whatever their church is. 00:34:05.065 --> 00:34:10.050 And, because they know people need help and, you know, they wanna help them. 00:34:10.050 --> 00:34:11.750 So and next one. 00:34:13.890 --> 00:34:17.250 And then in child family services, very big. 00:34:17.250 --> 00:34:21.670 And, you know, and then they are nonprofits and, you know, child protection. 00:34:21.970 --> 00:34:23.670 So and next one. 00:34:25.785 --> 00:34:33.965 And then in local state and federal government, you know, they like to have, you know, psychology grads to help out with, you know, drug and alcohol dependency. 00:34:34.105 --> 00:34:38.045 That's just it's getting out of hand, you know, parole officer. 00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:38.680 Yeah. 00:34:38.680 --> 00:34:46.700 We get, you know, quite a few students who are, you know, they're policemen, sheriffs, and that. 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:52.060 And, you know, they do wanna do that to help them with what they call community policing. 00:34:52.200 --> 00:34:55.035 So in the next one. 00:34:55.855 --> 00:35:00.755 So and that, fellow there in the red gown, that is, father Charles Sikorsky. 00:35:01.055 --> 00:35:03.555 He's the president of our university. 00:35:04.175 --> 00:35:09.730 And, of course, in the ministry, you know, for youth pastors, you know, leaders of churches. 00:35:10.030 --> 00:35:14.610 And, you know, it it kinda depends on, you know, what is important to you. 00:35:14.910 --> 00:35:16.130 And next one. 00:35:18.605 --> 00:35:32.560 Now online classroom, well, it, well, in twenty twenty when COVID hit, high schools, colleges, they did everything online because, you know, you couldn't be together. 00:35:32.940 --> 00:35:42.780 And, you know, online is it's the present and the future, but, as long as you have an Internet connection, you can do it. 00:35:42.780 --> 00:35:50.855 And it's the same atmosphere with full student participation and teachers, fast turnaround with professors and peers. 00:35:51.155 --> 00:35:53.575 You know, you, email your instructor. 00:35:53.715 --> 00:35:56.695 They should be back with you, I think, within twenty four hours. 00:35:57.500 --> 00:36:04.880 And then we we work on the five sense, sensory learning points, videos, books, tutorials, and audiobooks. 00:36:05.020 --> 00:36:06.640 You know, audiobooks are great. 00:36:06.940 --> 00:36:15.255 And, you can download them to some of the lectures to audiobooks, and we use Canvas, which is different than Blackboard. 00:36:16.355 --> 00:36:21.415 And Canvas is very, very user friendly, for the, students. 00:36:21.555 --> 00:36:28.755 And but, anyway, you can study when you want to, any anytime you want to as long as you have the Internet connection. 00:36:28.755 --> 00:36:34.160 So And next, these are our instructors. 00:36:34.380 --> 00:36:47.375 And, of course, our, main speaker, doctor Closley, is there and, you know, Angela Williamson and doctor Pecoraro, and, doctor Trepto, Christopher, and Giovanna. 00:36:47.755 --> 00:36:53.135 And, you know, they're all very good at what they do and very personable and knowledgeable. 00:36:53.995 --> 00:36:56.415 And, you know, they wanna see you succeed. 00:36:56.955 --> 00:36:57.990 So next. 00:36:59.570 --> 00:37:03.030 And we have two tracks, a sixteen month track. 00:37:03.090 --> 00:37:19.175 So sixteen months, you take two two courses per term, which in every trimester, there are two two terms per you know, two, eight week courses in a trimester. 00:37:20.195 --> 00:37:25.090 And then in the twenty six month path, you just take one. 00:37:25.090 --> 00:37:26.630 So it depends on you. 00:37:27.090 --> 00:37:28.930 You know, can you do two? 00:37:28.930 --> 00:37:37.575 But when I look at it, when I used to take 18 a semester And someone said, you only have to do two. 00:37:37.575 --> 00:37:38.715 I'm like, really? 00:37:39.095 --> 00:37:40.055 That should be easy. 00:37:40.055 --> 00:37:44.455 But, you know, but, you know, time wise, put your time commitment wise. 00:37:44.455 --> 00:37:46.315 I mean, you still have to do the work. 00:37:46.775 --> 00:37:56.400 And if you are in the, you know, taking one class a term on the twenty six months, you're looking at about fifteen hours a week of, you know, reading, writing, research, and reflecting. 00:37:57.420 --> 00:38:05.815 End of the sixteen months, you're probably looking about, you know, twenty four hours a week in doing that, but you finish faster, so it has its benefits. 00:38:06.515 --> 00:38:07.655 And the next one. 00:38:10.195 --> 00:38:12.535 And here are acceptance requirements. 00:38:13.075 --> 00:38:29.520 You have to have a baccalaureate degree, bachelor's degree, from a, institution or college that is recognized by the US Department of Education or and we have a lot of international students, and we we we get those evaluated. 00:38:30.695 --> 00:38:35.755 And as far as your your grades, a 2.5 or better grade average to be admitted. 00:38:36.535 --> 00:38:38.235 You know, two letters of recommendation. 00:38:38.535 --> 00:38:44.955 These can be from your spiritual directors, you know, former teachers, you know, supervisors. 00:38:45.650 --> 00:38:47.910 It they just can't be your best friend. 00:38:48.050 --> 00:38:51.990 And a written statement of intent, very, very important. 00:38:52.130 --> 00:38:55.270 And this is, I am here now. 00:38:56.770 --> 00:38:59.670 And in five years, I want to be here. 00:39:00.245 --> 00:39:04.985 And this is how the masters of psychology is gonna help me get there. 00:39:05.765 --> 00:39:09.145 And, you know, like I said, it's very important. 00:39:09.205 --> 00:39:14.585 And then TOEFL, you know, if English is not your first language, you know, we'll, you know, we'll deal with that. 00:39:14.900 --> 00:39:17.860 And the next one. 00:39:17.860 --> 00:39:20.600 And we do have, is grad school affordable? 00:39:20.740 --> 00:39:24.040 Well, we have government financial aid for those who qualify. 00:39:24.740 --> 00:39:32.015 You know, student loans, you you don't get, you know, federal grants on a graduate level. 00:39:32.015 --> 00:39:40.195 However, you know, we we do a lot of scholar shipping and, you know, we we do about, you know, 2,000,000 a year in scholarships. 00:39:40.415 --> 00:39:45.700 And what these do the the do is they reduce the tuition amount. 00:39:46.560 --> 00:39:47.040 Okay? 00:39:47.040 --> 00:39:47.780 Next one. 00:39:49.600 --> 00:39:51.780 And this is our our fees. 00:39:52.640 --> 00:40:06.125 Our, master of psychology, $8.26 a credit hour, thirty three credit hours, $27.02 $5.08, you know, technology fees, and, oh, did mention a virtual residency. 00:40:07.220 --> 00:40:11.320 And this is the only time you have to be online together. 00:40:11.940 --> 00:40:15.000 And we usually do that mid first trimester. 00:40:16.260 --> 00:40:23.375 And, you know, it's everyone together on a Friday and a Saturday from ten to five, and it's workshops. 00:40:23.595 --> 00:40:27.195 You all the instructors are there, and, it is great. 00:40:27.195 --> 00:40:31.035 I I went through it the last term, and it, boy, it enlightened me. 00:40:31.035 --> 00:40:33.775 Now, this includes your books too. 00:40:33.995 --> 00:40:39.360 And, you know, books can be expensive, and, of course, we use ebooks or electronic books. 00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:47.460 And now if you do the sixteen month track where you're taking two classes, they reduce the tuition. 00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:58.565 They give you 5050% off on your second course, which that would bring it down to around, you know, $21,000, you know, without any scholarships. 00:40:59.505 --> 00:41:05.605 And, of course, application fee of $55 can be waived, by me. 00:41:06.145 --> 00:41:07.125 The next one. 00:41:09.720 --> 00:41:15.260 And these are I call the four big questions, and, you know, everyone discerns. 00:41:15.560 --> 00:41:19.980 I mean, it no one has to get a master's degree. 00:41:20.120 --> 00:41:21.960 It's something you want to. 00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:28.755 You know, maybe you need to, but, you know, will the completion of the program help you obtain your goals? 00:41:29.375 --> 00:41:30.995 Depends on what your goals are. 00:41:31.695 --> 00:41:37.615 And will scheduling requirements for successful completion workable in your schedule? 00:41:37.615 --> 00:41:46.660 Well, you know, when you carve out fifteen hours a week or twenty two hours a week, you know, something's gotta give. 00:41:46.720 --> 00:41:52.425 You know, it could be bowling, could be, you know, different activities you do. 00:41:52.585 --> 00:41:55.405 But the good thing is it doesn't last forever. 00:41:55.705 --> 00:41:59.225 It's gonna last for sixteen months or twenty six months. 00:41:59.225 --> 00:42:01.305 And do financial aid options? 00:42:01.305 --> 00:42:02.265 Are they gonna work? 00:42:02.265 --> 00:42:08.760 Well, you know, once you apply to college or or or program, but we get you with financial aid. 00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:15.260 And, you know, you have to have a workable plan and, it it has to be affordable for you. 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:18.300 And can you commit to successful completion? 00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:29.955 And, I mean, I as the admission I don't want anybody coming into my program that, oh, I'm just gonna take a couple courses and, you know, do something else. 00:42:29.955 --> 00:42:32.375 I mean, you have to get your degree. 00:42:32.995 --> 00:42:34.135 And next slide. 00:42:36.550 --> 00:42:37.110 That's me. 00:42:37.110 --> 00:42:38.410 And then one more. 00:42:39.670 --> 00:42:41.450 But these are the skills to learn. 00:42:41.990 --> 00:42:44.950 And listening empathetically oh my gosh. 00:42:44.950 --> 00:42:50.145 I mean, I thought I was a good listener until I went through virtual residency. 00:42:50.605 --> 00:42:53.165 I was you know, I'd give myself a d. 00:42:53.165 --> 00:42:55.905 However, I'm I'm back to at least a c. 00:42:56.045 --> 00:42:57.905 And, again, it's non licensed. 00:42:58.605 --> 00:43:06.400 You know, you know, we can work alongside licensed mental health professionals, you know, wellness and life coaching. 00:43:06.620 --> 00:43:16.480 And, and you always when you you see someone has a really bad problem, you wanna refer them up to, someone who is, you know, licensed. 00:43:16.700 --> 00:43:17.840 So the next one. 00:43:20.865 --> 00:43:21.025 Yeah. 00:43:21.025 --> 00:43:23.365 Other skills learned, you know, building trust. 00:43:23.825 --> 00:43:25.105 Trust is a big thing. 00:43:25.105 --> 00:43:31.685 And I don't know about you, but everyone always used to come to me with all their problems. 00:43:32.180 --> 00:43:35.700 And I would listen, but, you know, I did not help them. 00:43:35.700 --> 00:43:45.480 And one thing about, being a psychologist, you can't always give them the right answers, but you could ask the right questions. 00:43:46.005 --> 00:43:49.705 And the right questions will help them help themselves. 00:43:50.725 --> 00:43:51.865 And next one. 00:43:53.525 --> 00:44:01.980 And these are our concentrations, marriage and family, knowledge and reading, human services, leadership, p PhD, and self design. 00:44:05.660 --> 00:44:08.380 And, and, you know, you listen to this. 00:44:08.380 --> 00:44:12.940 You probably pretty much, you know, what what your concentration would be. 00:44:12.940 --> 00:44:15.040 So and then one more. 00:44:16.875 --> 00:44:17.515 That's it. 00:44:17.515 --> 00:44:18.255 The finale. 00:44:18.875 --> 00:44:36.450 And, we, you know, $55 application fee that can be waived, and we don't know anything till you apply to school and go through a a meeting with me for about thirty minutes or so just to make sure it's a good fit. 00:44:36.450 --> 00:44:46.265 And, you know, I wanna make sure that our students are doing this for the right reasons, and, you know, that that's gonna lead to success. 00:44:46.485 --> 00:44:49.205 And, you know, and and if it's not a good fit, hey. 00:44:49.205 --> 00:44:49.765 You know what? 00:44:49.765 --> 00:44:50.745 We shake hands. 00:44:51.285 --> 00:44:52.265 Hardest friends. 00:44:52.565 --> 00:44:54.665 And, that is it. 00:45:00.560 --> 00:45:02.080 So People have questions. 00:45:02.080 --> 00:45:05.780 If you have question, may you put them in the chat or in the q and a? 00:45:08.080 --> 00:45:13.195 So we can take some questions about either logistics, entering, focus of the program. 00:45:20.215 --> 00:45:23.275 Well, I guess they were all answered, doctor Claussen. 00:45:24.380 --> 00:45:24.880 Excellent. 00:45:27.180 --> 00:45:30.560 So, anyway, I, you know oh, wait a minute. 00:45:30.940 --> 00:45:31.180 No. 00:45:31.180 --> 00:45:32.160 I think it was earlier. 00:45:33.420 --> 00:45:34.160 It was? 00:45:34.380 --> 00:45:34.880 Yeah. 00:45:35.180 --> 00:45:38.395 Oh, Milagro, I think somebody raised their hand. 00:45:38.395 --> 00:45:42.735 Do you wanna just, text, put it in the chat, or do you wanna unmute yourself? 00:45:44.155 --> 00:45:44.875 I'm unmuted. 00:45:44.875 --> 00:45:45.675 Can you hear me? 00:45:45.675 --> 00:45:46.075 Yeah. 00:45:46.075 --> 00:45:46.575 Yes. 00:45:47.515 --> 00:45:47.915 Okay. 00:45:47.915 --> 00:45:49.595 So I'm working as a LPN. 00:45:49.595 --> 00:45:54.030 I do home health, and and I'm looking to go into case management or maybe into hospice nursing. 00:45:54.030 --> 00:45:56.850 I'm currently pursuing my RN online. 00:45:58.110 --> 00:46:03.950 So would this be a good, just general master's degree program to do that? 00:46:03.950 --> 00:46:06.575 And I think so. 00:46:06.575 --> 00:46:08.035 I think it's very Mhmm. 00:46:08.095 --> 00:46:20.510 We have more and more people from all kinds of different health care situations, and they love the deeper just a new angle to think through what is what are aspects of flourishing. 00:46:21.050 --> 00:46:27.950 We just had somebody who does who's physical therapist, doctoral level physical therapist who works with chronic pain people. 00:46:28.090 --> 00:46:28.570 Mhmm. 00:46:28.570 --> 00:46:31.710 And, she just needed a reframing of suffering. 00:46:32.235 --> 00:46:36.655 How do you take people through those hard places with hope? 00:46:36.955 --> 00:46:37.195 Right? 00:46:37.195 --> 00:46:38.895 The the whole psychology of hope. 00:46:39.035 --> 00:46:55.310 And I think she found she actually presented Catholic Medical Association on her she did her capstone on kind of the flourishing person in suffering and adding a kind of cognitive behavioral piece to her medical intervention and was very well received. 00:46:55.310 --> 00:46:59.390 And I think it's really given her a new way of working with patients. 00:46:59.390 --> 00:47:04.355 I think given her new joy, new hope in the way she works with patients. 00:47:05.535 --> 00:47:06.035 Mhmm. 00:47:07.135 --> 00:47:07.635 Yeah. 00:47:07.935 --> 00:47:08.755 Thank you. 00:47:10.495 --> 00:47:13.055 I want to just take a moment to thank you guys for the presentation. 00:47:13.055 --> 00:47:14.195 It was very helpful. 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:15.980 So glad. 00:47:16.040 --> 00:47:17.900 I have to pop off and go to work. 00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:18.680 No. 00:47:18.680 --> 00:47:19.580 Well Okay. 00:47:19.640 --> 00:47:20.280 Oh, well. 00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:20.480 Okay. 00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:22.460 So So be good work. 00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:32.255 But, you know, one thing I say is, you know, anytime you get into a master's degree like this, it's gonna change you Mhmm. 00:47:32.495 --> 00:47:36.195 More than anything because you're gonna have different outlooks. 00:47:36.495 --> 00:47:44.050 And, you know, you know, your friends may, you know hopefully, they'll still be your friends, but you're you're a different person. 00:47:44.590 --> 00:47:47.650 But, you know, you have to do that to help people. 00:47:47.710 --> 00:47:55.410 So So I see there are two more press questions about which program can be licensed is to master's in counseling, clinical mental health counseling. 00:47:56.510 --> 00:48:03.545 It is, I think it's twice twice as long, and then you have licensing hours. 00:48:03.545 --> 00:48:03.785 Right? 00:48:03.785 --> 00:48:05.245 You have depending on your state. 00:48:05.545 --> 00:48:06.845 So then you are licensed. 00:48:07.145 --> 00:48:08.185 And it very good. 00:48:08.185 --> 00:48:12.750 So so what requirement for licensing? 00:48:12.970 --> 00:48:14.510 So our program is not licensing. 00:48:15.210 --> 00:48:24.030 However, certain states, like Colorado has, like, a three tier system for addictions counseling. 00:48:24.570 --> 00:48:33.585 So the the highest tier is for clinical mental health counselors who are fully licensed, but you can be an addictions counselor at with a master's of psychology. 00:48:35.245 --> 00:48:39.380 So and then you can get a certification to do addictions work. 00:48:39.600 --> 00:48:41.760 So it depends what state you are in. 00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:43.300 So there are different states. 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:52.805 We're working on putting a list together for our students because some people really do enjoy working, doing addictions work, and very, very needed this day and age. 00:48:52.805 --> 00:49:05.660 So, that's and some people career counseling, if you do like I'm certified to do, aptitude assessment for career counseling, which does not require a clinical mental health license. 00:49:06.040 --> 00:49:07.100 So I'm a certified. 00:49:07.240 --> 00:49:16.060 You have to do extra training, but I offer assessment for aptitude and ability for people to kinda discern what is good career choices for them. 00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:21.275 So that's a certification route versus a licensing route, if that makes sense. 00:49:21.735 --> 00:49:23.255 Seth, I think that was your question. 00:49:26.215 --> 00:49:32.500 Let let us know that when, Myra, I think, had the question about which program is licensing. 00:49:34.640 --> 00:49:35.040 Hi. 00:49:35.040 --> 00:49:36.180 My name is Ariana. 00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:46.095 I am a strategic director at a nonprofit organization, and we have pregnancy help centers in Miami. 00:49:46.715 --> 00:49:49.675 I've been looking over this program, and I don't know. 00:49:49.675 --> 00:49:53.535 The more I look into it, the more I feel like the leadership track would be beneficial. 00:49:53.595 --> 00:50:05.840 I mean, there's a lot of people that I'm supposed you know, I kinda am supposed to be, leading, and I would love to learn more how to, you know, like, problem, solve with groups of people. 00:50:07.580 --> 00:50:14.885 Because I'm I don't know if maybe in the future, I'll be in a even bigger leadership, position in the organization. 00:50:15.425 --> 00:50:22.725 So I'm just very thankful for this, and it's just kind of like a confirmation from God that Excellent. 00:50:23.200 --> 00:50:33.840 Well, you know, we've had quite a few people who are in nonprofit pro life pregnancy center ministry, who who've gone through the program. 00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:40.205 We had someone who was Downtown New York leading a pro life center, who graduated, like, pretty early in the program. 00:50:40.585 --> 00:50:47.805 And I think found it really, really helpful at both the leadership of others, but also in the work and thinking through how to run that organization. 00:50:48.665 --> 00:50:48.905 Yeah. 00:50:48.905 --> 00:50:49.145 Yeah. 00:50:49.145 --> 00:50:52.490 I could really relate to what you were saying about burnout. 00:50:52.550 --> 00:50:57.910 I see it in my in my boss a lot, and it would be something that I think Yeah. 00:50:57.990 --> 00:50:59.850 Would be interesting to dive into. 00:51:00.870 --> 00:51:01.370 Excellent. 00:51:01.590 --> 00:51:02.090 Yeah. 00:51:03.190 --> 00:51:03.590 Great. 00:51:03.590 --> 00:51:05.755 Are there other questions, comments? 00:51:05.755 --> 00:51:07.195 I also had another question. 00:51:08.715 --> 00:51:11.455 If I was looking at there's, like, different terms. 00:51:11.515 --> 00:51:14.255 Do you offer, a spring term? 00:51:14.875 --> 00:51:15.275 Yep. 00:51:15.275 --> 00:51:17.935 Two in the spring, one in the summer, two in the fall. 00:51:18.155 --> 00:51:19.935 Five eight week terms a year. 00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:20.640 Okay. 00:51:20.640 --> 00:51:23.280 And the spring one would start in January? 00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:34.340 January through March, March through May, then end of May through July, then we take three, four weeks off, and then start again middle of August through October, October through December. 00:51:35.345 --> 00:51:35.585 Okay. 00:51:35.585 --> 00:51:42.625 And, when would you recommend to apply if I would like to start, hopefully? 00:51:42.705 --> 00:51:44.545 Apply now if you wanna start in May. 00:51:44.545 --> 00:51:48.405 You can apply in the next few weeks if you wanna start in August. 00:51:48.690 --> 00:51:50.150 We do have program orientation. 00:51:50.210 --> 00:51:51.510 We do a library orientation. 00:51:52.210 --> 00:51:56.050 So it's nice if you don't apply, like, the week before we start. 00:51:56.050 --> 00:52:06.325 We actually don't take you anymore the week before we start, but we just feel people need a couple weeks to go, right, be be well situated and to start well. 00:52:06.325 --> 00:52:11.385 So if you wanna start two months before it starts, it's probably a good time frame. 00:52:11.685 --> 00:52:12.185 Okay. 00:52:12.245 --> 00:52:12.725 Thank you. 00:52:12.725 --> 00:52:14.490 Joe, is that kinda what you would think? 00:52:14.890 --> 00:52:15.390 Yeah. 00:52:15.690 --> 00:52:25.790 Again, you know, I mean, we're gonna we're gonna start a trimester every January, every May, every August till the end of time. 00:52:25.930 --> 00:52:29.070 However, you know, tuition goes up. 00:52:30.195 --> 00:52:34.055 And I know in May what I told you, that's the May tuition. 00:52:34.515 --> 00:52:40.515 You know, those who wanna wait till fall, well, for the next one, they're gonna pay a little bit more. 00:52:40.515 --> 00:52:46.380 But, you know, when it when it comes to, you know, graduate school, it's not about the money. 00:52:46.600 --> 00:52:47.080 You know? 00:52:47.080 --> 00:52:48.680 Everybody say it's the money, money, money. 00:52:48.680 --> 00:52:48.920 No. 00:52:48.920 --> 00:52:52.780 It's about the time you put in, the emotions you put into it. 00:52:53.080 --> 00:53:02.745 And, you know, and it's something you're gonna earn and very be very, very proud of that you have that on your resume, a master's in psychology. 00:53:03.125 --> 00:53:05.605 And, that that is the payoff. 00:53:05.605 --> 00:53:06.565 That is the payoff. 00:53:06.565 --> 00:53:08.725 And what you do with it from there? 00:53:08.725 --> 00:53:17.370 Well, I mean, that's up to you, but, you know, with a broader knowledge base and knowledge of people, it can take you far. 00:53:19.830 --> 00:53:20.650 Thank you. 00:53:20.950 --> 00:53:21.450 Mhmm. 00:53:23.795 --> 00:53:24.295 Alright. 00:53:26.995 --> 00:53:33.495 And, yeah, I think this answer if you have more questions, be in touch with, children. 00:53:33.955 --> 00:53:36.960 Oh, I'll I'll help you, and I thank you for attending. 00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:39.120 And I wanna thank doctor Clousely too. 00:53:39.120 --> 00:53:40.820 You know, what a wonderful session. 00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:45.120 I mean, that is I mean, she's the expert. 00:53:45.120 --> 00:53:49.600 She knows the program inside out, upside down, right left, up down. 00:53:49.600 --> 00:53:56.045 So, but if you got questions, you know, I'll see if we can answer them for you. 00:53:56.045 --> 00:53:58.145 So That's great. 00:53:58.285 --> 00:53:58.685 Alright. 00:53:58.685 --> 00:53:59.745 Well, thank you, everybody. 00:53:59.965 --> 00:54:01.265 We're going to You're ready. 00:54:02.285 --> 00:54:04.205 Sign off here and good night. 00:54:04.205 --> 00:54:05.505 And, you know? 00:54:05.936 --> 00:54:06.436 Goodbye. 00:54:06.496 --> 00:54:07.316 Bye bye. 00:54:07.536 --> 00:54:08.496 I enjoyed it. 00:54:08.496 --> 00:54:09.137 Thank you. 00:54:09.137 --> 00:54:09.876 Bye now.