First of all, welcome, Rosie.
You have, myself, Tom Brooks.
I am the vice president for Divine Mercy University, and I work for the enrollment marketing areas, those kind of things.
And currently, I'm helping launch the new PhD in counselor education supervision program.
Since it's just you, we'll go through just several things.
And then maybe if you're interested, you and I can just set up a separate call, and we can go a little bit more in-depth.
But, couple of things to highlight, as we get going.
We'll do the overview real quick.
And as you notice, I'm working from the website.
And what this will do is allow you to also see the different parts of the website for this program and, you know, kinda do any research you need to do, to help yourself or something that will spur questions.
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Alright.
So, Rosie, are you, can you let me know?
Are you a former DMU student?
No.
I'm not.
Okay.
Perfect.
Now I can hear you.
Alright.
Then, you know, a lot of this will have relevancy to you then, and that'll help you.
If you were just if you were one of our graduates from our master's program, then we would have skipped over some of this.
But, I'll go through it kinda quickly, and then, you know, hopefully, you can get to the q and a, as well and go from there.
So, since it's just you and I, where did you go to school?
I went to school, William Carey University in state of Mississippi and, University of West Alabama and, in the state of Alabama.
Okay.
And are you a licensed, counselor?
I am on the department of mental health.
I want to go back and get, I'm lacking, like, four classes, then maybe I can get my LPC, but I have to get to a K CREP college.
Are you guys K CREP?
We are.
So, I'm sorry.
Are you are you licensed right now?
Yes.
I'm licensed through the department of mental health.
Yes.
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And what is that can you what's your credentials?
I'm sorry.
When you say that, I don't understand it.
I apologize.
A certified mental health therapist.
That's CMHT.
Okay.
Alright.
Our undergraduate program or I'm sorry.
Okay.
Our MS in clinical mental health counseling is our master's degree program, and it is state prep accredited.
The Okay.
New program, which you're we're here to talk about, the PhD in counselor education supervision is not accredited yet.
But it it's a what we call it's not a new launch program.
It's called it's what we call an addition.
And what it does is it cuts down CACREP accreditation opportunity by about half.
So the idea is that and and we did this with our undergrad or I'm sorry, with our master's program.
Everybody went through the program, eventually was certified as CACREP accredited and all that.
Mhmm.
Even the ones that graduated before we got it, they were in what we call the window.
This program will probably get it right around the time it will start graduating people or and almost immediately after.
So it is a CACREP program, in waiting.
And, again, it'll be shortened before it's over.
But as of right now, we it is not CACREP approved.
So, Divine Mercy University embraces the Catholic Christian vision of the person flourishing and educate students in important knowledge, skills, and disposition to be leaders in the professional counseling field.
The PhD in counselor education supervision, or what we say is PhD CES program is part of the DMU Global Campus School of Counseling.
The vision of the c CES program is to train global transformational educators, clinical supervisors, researchers, scholars, leaders, and advocates who are passionate about their role in overachieving overarching profession of counselor and education supervision.
Graduates are compassionate and ethical in their work as trained professionals to honor and respect the innate dignity of every person in a global diverse population.
So whether you've been a DMU or not, it's important to understand kind of our our thought process on not only this program, but all of our programs.
And that kinda gives you a brief overview of the program and our our kind of our thought process.
I do wanna mention that, tomorrow is the deadline for anybody that wants to submit for the early admit scholarship, which is $2,000.
And all you need is part one in there, and there's two parts to the application.
One is the application itself, and then the second part will be the submission of some things that we'll go through in a minute.
So, the mission of the school of counseling is develop and maintain a worldwide educational community, offer masters and doctoral level degree programs, professional counseling, and support of DMU's integrative mission with a culture of feedback wherein student voices are heard and respected.
These are kind of the the important things for anybody looking into these programs.
Students will be prepared to hear the rich and complex voices of clients and counseling students a view each of each person's flourishing even in the midst of human difficulty and challenge.
Two, they'll demonstrate compassionate, versatile, interpersonal skills to develop healing relationships with clients, transformative training with counseling students, and collaboration with other professions.
Three, will become a professional counselors and counselor educator who in who is informed by a Catholic Christian vision of a flourishing person, inspire themselves and others to have a courage to trust, hope, and love.
The online counselor program and CES provides rigorous training and counselor education to prepare students for academic research, clinical, consulting, and leadership careers.
The program is uniquely designed to facilitate a deeper and holistic understanding of a flourishing person by integrating the wisdom of philosophy and theology with a cutting edge research in counselor education, enabling students to make a difference in a variety of settings across the worlds.
Basically, you'll acquire the necessary skills to engage in the scholarly examination of counseling processes and theories with integration and the practice of counseling and the Catholic Christian vision of a flourishing person, the science and art of counseling supervision, the development of teaching methods, roles, and responsibilities related to educating counselors.
Original research in the areas of interest, receive faculty support, interact with students, and researchers from diverse areas of expertise.
I present their research in a variety of settings to advance the field of professional counseling and counselor education.
The science and art and leadership and administration for the counseling profession, professional organizations, council education, and their local community, the global community, and the communities of Catholic Christian faith.
These are right along with the CACREP standards, doctoral curriculum.
And then I'm not gonna read through everything, so don't worry about that part, but it's important for us to kinda let you know who we are.
The program overview, the program is a 90 credit doctoral program built on DMU's master's in counseling, clinical mental health counseling program as a foundation incorporates 30 credits from the program for the 90 credit doctoral program.
What that also means is if you graduated with your master's from another school and you're licensed, theoretically, you should be able to transfer in 30 credits and and be able to only need to take the 60 credits.
Students with graduate degrees, can transfer up to 30 credits into the PhD program.
The doctoral program requires an additional sixty credit hours of coursework addressing professional roles in five areas.
And these are important for you guys to understand because it's really relevant to what you may or may not want to do in your careers.
The first one is obviously counseling.
Second is supervision.
Third is teaching, fourth is research and scholarship, and leadership and advocacy.
Additionally, students are required to compete internship experiences in advanced counseling, supervision and teaching, and doctoral dissertation of original research.
There are three extended weekend residencies at our campus, so you would be required to come in for those.
They're once a year and they start pretty the first one's pretty quick in the program and then pretty much a year later.
The residents are residencies are designed as working residency where students gather to encourage each other, practice skills they're learning, and focus on the completion of the dissertations.
When you're not at the school, we do use state of the art technology for both asynchronous traditional online learning with significant use of videotaping various clinical and professional skills to be viewed by peers and faculty and synchronous learning where students will have virtual face to face interactions in their learning process.
If you're looking at what you can do as a career with this degree once you complete, academia.
You can work as a professor or faculty member, department chair, program director, curriculum developer, subject matter expert.
There's a slew of other things under that area.
Clinical practice and supervision.
Many folks have said, like, I just want to continue on my practice.
I just wanna be smarter about it, and I want to be able to do some other things with the license or the degree.
Some of those require our licensed professional counselor, clinical supervisor, mental health administrator.
And if you're out in the field already, you know, there's several other areas you can work in.
We've chosen not to list in some exhaustive list.
There's other folks that, you know, want to continue their practice, but also have a desire to, create research and evaluation so they can become a research scientist, a program evaluator, a grant writer.
They can write books, white papers, tons of other things.
If you're looking to get published, this is a good way to understand how to really work that from a more senior level.
Then, of course, there's leadership and administration, higher education administrator, nonprofit administrator, government agency administrator, again, in academia, you can come in and, you know, be a division chair to a number of other things.
And then, you know, a lot of folks look to do things like, write books, articles, or develop workshops and counseling topics, become a public speaker.
They can be used as a consultant.
There's a number of areas that this degree really helps, you know, folks move forward.
So it's kind of a brief overview in that area.
And then what I'm gonna do is, we're not gonna go through everything like course descriptions.
But what we will do is I'm sorry.
Gotta get back over here.
Alright.
So for those, you know, we talked about our accreditation.
We are, as a school, accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges, SACS, and our master's program in counseling is CACREP accredited.
Our PsyD program in clinical psychology is, APA accredited.
And then we're set up through the state of Virginia, to operate as a university.
So, again, on our website, you can see all these things, and, they can help you understand, accreditation.
Rosie asked a question earlier.
You know, are we CAKE CREP accredited?
This program is not CAKE CREP accredited yet.
It will be we will be submitting our request when it's time it's appropriate to do so.
And we're pretty confident we'll be okay in that area.
When we submitted for our master's program, we got a full grant, and, you know, we we did it in pretty quick time.
So we were pretty happy with that.
So let's talk a little bit about program requirements.
So everything that I'm viewing, I want you guys to understand is on the website, And you can go back later on if I've gone too quick or I didn't answer a question for you, but it'll help you understand where to go get this information.
So the PhD in counselor education supervision consists of ninety credit hours.
You talked about that.
You get the following information is relevant to this.
You have your 30 credits coming in from your master's degree, then there's seven core content courses, which is 21 credits.
There's three courses and internships with seven credits.
Three courses in integration with six credits, three courses in research, which is nine credits, and 17 credits in dissertation research and writing.
I won't go through all of the other things like residencies or everything, like, academic good standing, any of those kind of things that have as all being master's level folks, you've kinda gone through this.
As I mentioned earlier, there's three residencies.
And, basically, the first residency is during the first course of the in the program and then same term each year following year for students in the program full time.
So if you're part time, it may adjust as to when these would happen, but, theoretically, you're doing these at the beginning of each year.
The first one is a c s CES seven forty, advanced seminar and professional identity, legal and ethical issues, and CES to three day residency in week four.
CES seven ninety one is your internship two supervision, four day residency two in week eight, and that's year two.
CES eight ninety nine, dissertation research and writings, five.
That's a four day residency, three in week one, and that would be the last semester.
Again, I won't go through all these, but you can see things like academic good standing, passing grade, retaking courses, incompletes, those kind of things.
So it tells you a little bit about the residencies.
Oh, the curriculum.
Again, I won't go through all of these, but this is where you can take a look and see the different courses and their identity, if you will.
So you'll see we bring spring one a actually is our January start, which we're currently taking applications for.
You can see spring one a and spring one b.
Our program is is based on terms.
So one a would be eight weeks, spring one b would be eight weeks to fulfill a sixteen week term.
And then you can kinda see the courses in each term, and then it goes down from there.
So, again, I won't walk through all of these with you guys.
I just want you to be aware of where they're at and allow you to peruse it on your own, and go from there.
So that's your curriculum.
Course descriptions, if you really want to learn, you know, what each course is, this is where you're gonna find out what's in that course.
And it it gives a pretty good idea of what what you're gonna learn.
So this should help you understand things that maybe you have specific questions on regarding what skill sets you acquire, what education you require acquire, all those kind of thing.
I will introduce you a little bit to our faculty.
We have find it here.
So these are the different folks that we have working in the program, and the, program director currently is doctor Steven Sharp, which is over here.
And then over here you can see all the different, faculty we have in the program.
We're pretty proud of our faculty.
We have a very strong faculty and they are, you know, not being a a a counseling guy.
What I can tell you is our folks come out highly prepared, highly motivated, and I I hear nothing but rave reviews from our students as they go through the program regarding their faculty members.
So they learn a lot, and they do it in a positive way, which we think is the the right way to do it.
I've been in education for thirty years, and it's probably one of the best faculties I've ever seen actually.
Admissions requirements.
Let's talk a minute about that.
If you're interested in applying, these are gonna be the requirements you're gonna need.
A master's degree in counseling or a related mental health field from an institution institution accredited by an agency recognized by the Department of Education.
Preference will be given to applicants who are professionally credentialed in a 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 CES program.
Your graduate degree cumulative GPA, minimum of three point o on a GPA scale of four point o.
You need to complete the application process, which comp which includes completed application for admissions document.
That's the first document that I told you about.
One recommendation form from an academic reference.
If you believe you may have trouble obtaining an academic reference, maybe you've been out a while, please contact, me and let me know.
We'll talk about an alternative.
Submission of official transcript from all post secondary institutions even if a degree was not awarded.
Submission of essays as noted in application for admissions document, and two video clips of clinical work, role play, and a teaching, slash presentation minimum of twenty minutes each.
Again, these can be role play.
They don't have to be from actual sessions.
If they are from sessions, they need to be FERPA relevant, and I'm sure you all understand that.
Current, curriculum detail or resume, There isn't a 25 or I'm sorry.
$55 application fee, but there is an application fee waiver.
It and we can give that to you when you're ready.
There'll be two video conferences, one with myself.
We'll go through the you know, any of your questions, any of your thoughts, and and all that kind of stuff.
And then once you've submitted all of your documents, which is the second part of your application, you would be, and we've talked, you'd be required to, sit in on a group interview with the, program director and faculty, some faculty members, to talk to you about the program, what you're looking for, and how you could fit into what we do.
If you're international, please raise your hand or note in the chat.
Otherwise, I'll skip an international part.
I don't think we have any international students.
Okay.
If we do, I'll come back or connect with you online, afterwards in another way.
After all, application materials have been completed and received by our admissions office.
The applicant will be invited to schedule a video conference interview with admissions pending and it's not all against part one.
I will talk to you guys after the initial application is submitted, and then we'll talk about how to finish your application submission for the group interview.
You're not admitted until you get through that group interview, and you have been, given the green light from the program director.
For those that want to come into the program and don't meet the requirements, but, I'm sorry.
If you're looking to join in other programs, like, we have a PsyD in clinical psychology, and then we have this PhD in counselor education and supervision.
You would have to meet with the other area as well if you're considering one or the other.
Again, this program is online with the with the residency components.
Our PsyD program is actually a 100% on campus.
Successful participants in the in the CES program will demonstrate not only strong academic aptitude, but exceptional research and writing skills, ability to gain knowledge that covers both a breadth of in the field, a professional counseling and depth in specific area of the field, but also grit, the ability to persevere in the lengthy process of research and writing to complete the dissertation.
In order to best support students in this endeavor, the PhD in counter education, at DMU uses a cohort model to create a learning community with three extended residences on campus.
The initial cohort requires a minimum number of applicants to ensure a cohort size leads to an ideal learning environment.
The question is, what what does that look like?
We are only accepting 12 students per start, and we only have two starts a year.
Again, this is our initial program start and meaning January, and this is what we call the, inaugural group.
Very happy.
We still have a few more spaces available.
We're looking to have about six or seven more applications to fill everything out, because people change, things happen, and, you know, we go from there.
So we're not full yet, but we definitely want if you're interested in January, you definitely need to get your application in, especially for the early application deadline.
$2,000 is still $2,000, which is nice.
The, transfer piece, students may transfer up to thirty semester hours from their master's degree into the 90 credits of the PhD coursework.
For transfer course to replace a PhD counselor course, the following requirements must be met.
School at which the course is taken must be appropriately accredited.
Each course credit must be equivalent to one semester hours or one point six seven quarter hours.
The student must have earned a grade of b or better in the course.
The course must overlap with the PhD and CES, by at least 80%, and then transfer credits must have been completed at postmasters work.
Coursework, which is seven nine hundred level within the previous seven years to be accepted.
Courses with a graded a grade of b minus or below will not be accepted.
Correspondent studies or life experiences will not be accepted for transfer credit as well.
So, that's a really brief overview of the program.
It is an overview of what it requires to get into the program and then, you know, a little bit about Divine Mercy University.
Alright.
So I we'll go ahead and end here.
Henry, my contact information is, below on the website as you can see.
You can set up a Calendly if you want, and, I can work through other questions with you.
And, I'll be reaching out to you by early next week at the latest.
Appreciate you attending the the webinar.
And, again, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me.
Otherwise, I'll reach out to you shortly.
Have a good evening.
Thank you.