Azusa Pacific University

Azusa Pacific University (APU) is a private, Free Methodist, evangelical Christian university located near Los Angeles in suburban Azusa, California, United States. With over 6,500 students, APU's undergraduate student body is the largest in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and the second largest evangelical undergraduate student body in the United States. APU holds regional accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

The university was founded in 1899, with classes opening on March 3, 1900, in Whittier, California. It began offering degrees in 1939. While officially inter-denominational, APU has ties with several evangelical denominations. The university's seminary, the Graduate School of Theology, holds to a Wesleyan-Arminian doctrinal theology.

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Mount Mary University

Mount Mary University (formerly Mount Mary College) is a private, not-for-profit, Catholic liberal arts university located on an 80-acre campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The university was founded in 1913 by the School Sisters of Notre Dame and was Wisconsin's first four-year, degree-granting Catholic college for women. Today, the university serves women at the undergraduate level and both women and men at the graduate level.

The university enrolls nearly 1,500 students and offers bachelor's degrees in more than 30 academic majors, as well as eight master's and doctoral degree programs. Post-baccalaureate certificate programs also are offered. Mount Mary is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

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Sinclair Community College

Sinclair Community College is an urban community college located in downtown Dayton, Ohio and is the largest community college at a single location in the state of Ohio.

Sinclair had an enrollment of 25,345 students in 2009, making the main campus one of the largest (by enrollment) community college campuses in North America.

Because of special funding set up by the taxpayers of Montgomery County, the tuition of the college is the lowest in Ohio for residents of that county; the tuition necessary to complete an associate degree program can cost less than a single quarter’s tuition at other colleges.

Sinclair Community College was featured in a 2009 issue of The New York Times. The article explained how community colleges in the United States, like Sinclair, help to create jobs in an unstable economy. The article also stated that Sinclair is widely known as one of the best community colleges in the region.

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Wingate University

Wingate University is a private comprehensive university with more than 3,000 on three campuses in Wingate, Charlotte and Hendersonville, in North Carolina, United States. It was founded by Baptists in 1896 as Wingate School, an independent, co-educational institution and became a four-year college in 1977. In 1996, Wingate College became Wingate University.

The university offers 35 undergraduate majors, 37 minors and career concentrations, nine pre-professional programs, master's degrees in business, accounting, education, physician assistant studies and sport administration, and doctorates in pharmacy, physical therapy and education.

Wingate University is consistently listed among Best Value colleges and universities in the South based on quality and net cost according to 'U.S. News & World Report's . [2] Wingate student athletes compete in 22 NCAA Division II sports, and the University has won the South Atlantic Conference Echols Athletic Excellence Award for the past nine years.

Wingate University's main campus is located in Union County, North Carolina on a 400-acre (1.6 km2) campus 30 miles east of Charlotte. A high percentage of students (85%) live on campus all four years.

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University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

The University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences is a graduate institution that emphasizes health science education. It has campuses in San Marcos, California, St. Augustine, Florida and Austin, TX, United States.

The mission of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences is the development of professional health care practitioners through innovative, individualized, and quality classroom, clinical, and distance education.

The Commission for Independent Education, Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee, Florida, licenses the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences to offer its degree programs. This  licensure includes the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT), the Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT), the Dual Degree Option (MOT/DPT), the Doctor of Education (EdD), the Flex Doctor of Physical Therapy Degree, the transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT), the transitional Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD), the Master of Orthopaedic Assistant (MOA), and the Doctor of Health Science (DHSc) degrees. The university is regionally accredited by WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC): http://www.usa.edu/p54-223-Accreditation.aspx.

The Bureau for Private, Post-secondary and Vocational Education approves the entry-level DPT expansion program in San Marcos, California.

The Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) accredited the first professional Physical Therapy program in October 1996 and re-accredited the program in April 2001.

The entry-level Occupational Therapy program was accredited with no deficiencies by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) in April 1999 and reaccredited in April 2009. The San Marcos, CA MOT program received accreditation from ACOTE in the fall of 2010.

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Northcentral University

Northcentral University is a virtual, private, for-profit university established in 1996. Under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, Northcentral is classified as a Doctoral Research University. The school is based in Prescott Valley, Arizona and is currently owned by Rockbridge Growth Equity, LLC and Falcon Investments, LLC.

Northcentral offers bachelor's, master's (MA, MBA and MEd), specialist (EdS), and doctoral (PhD, DBA and EdD) degrees in business and technology management, education, Marriage and Family Therapy, and behavioral and health sciences.

In 2013, Northcentral received a five-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) for its Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy (MAMFT) degree program. Northcentral University’s MAMFT was the first of only two programs with distance education to receive COAMFTE’s accreditation, ensuring that the University’s program aligns with national accreditation standards. 

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D'Youville College

D'Youville College is a private, coeducational independent college, with a Roman Catholic tradition located in the historic Prospect Hill neighborhood on the West Side of Buffalo, New York within the Diocese of Buffalo. The college is a few blocks from the international Peace Bridge and has students from around the world. D'Youville College celebrated its 100th Anniversary in 2008.

Koessler Administration Building

D'Youville offers 45 degree majors for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, as well as advanced certificates for health care professionals and education. There are also five-year, dual-degree programs in occupational therapy, physician assistant, dietetics, undergraduate and graduate programs in nursing, a seven-year chiropractic school program, a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program, and a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program. Education, math and natural sciences, business, and liberal arts majors are also available. D'Youville is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education and other appropriate accrediting agencies. A number of degrees are accepted by the Canadian National Government.

Its current enrollment is approximately 3,200 students. D'Youville enrolls approximately 500 Canadian students and an almost equal split between students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree programs. In 2013, D'Youville was ranked the best college in the nation for veterans by Military Times EDGE magazine.

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Andrews University

Andrews University is a private university situated in Berrien Rises, Mich, USA. The university was recognized in 1874 with the name Fight Stream Higher education. The University is the biggest Religious university situated in Mich.

The University has a university of nearly 1600 miles with a variety of institutional structures in it. Moreover, the university university is also specific as an arboretum, operates close to the St. John Stream.

Through educational institutions, such as the University of Structure, Art & Design, University of Business Management, University of Education, University of Health Careers, and Higher education of Artistry & Sciences, such as its leading institution a Seventh-Day Adventist Theological Seminary, the University offers over 130 undergrad degrees .

In inclusion to offering learning actions in the university university, the university also provides a study overseas system. Where to be successful in the system, and so learners can with easy credit exchange, the university has recognized collaboration with the nations of the five major regions of the world, such as in Southern america, Southern South korea, Southern africa and Italy.

As well as a Seventh-Day Adventist Theological Seminary, the university is also famous for having one of the biggest percentage of worldwide learners, is well-known for its 30-member “Gymnics” team- college student acrobats who trip and serves activities.

There was also a regular yearly occasion structured by members of the university, the Interest Play. Where in the occasion, thousands of individuals taken part arrange for the nearby group, with the Gymnics and music by the Andrews University Concert Band.

To control the actions of the learners, the university implemented a policy included in the school student property. Therefore, the university is to provide a personal university university and the learners are required to live on university real estate and adhere to other rules, Including an age-dependent Curfew. And for the learners of the opposite sex, do not expect to stay in the same dormitory at all times, because the university has also structured it.

And for learners who want to create their abilities, and show success in the field of actions, can be a part of the university groups. Because, this university has groups, nicknamed the Cardinals, which plays with groups from other colleges in the USCAA competitors.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy.It was originally designed to treat depression, but is now used for a number of mental disorders.

It works to solve current problems and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. The name refers to behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and therapy based upon a combination of basic behavioral and cognitive principles. Most therapists working with patients dealing with anxiety and depression use a blend of cognitive and behavioral therapy. This technique acknowledges that there may be behaviors that cannot be controlled through rational thought, but rather emerge based on prior conditioning from the environment and other external and/or internal stimuli. CBT is "problem focused" (undertaken for specific problems) and "action oriented" (therapist tries to assist the client in selecting specific strategies to help address those problems), or directive in its therapeutic approach. It is different from the more traditional, psychoanalytical approach, where therapists look for the unconscious meaning behind the behaviors and then diagnose the patient. Instead, behaviorists believe that disorders, such as depression, have to do with the relationship between a feared stimulus and an avoidance response, resulting in a conditioned fear, much like Ivan Pavlov. Cognitive therapists believed that conscious thoughts could influence a person’s behavior all on its own. Ultimately, the two theories were combined to create what is now known as cognitive behavioral therapy.
CBT is effective for a variety of conditions, including mood, anxiety, personality, eating, addiction, dependence, tic, and psychotic disorders. Many CBT treatment programs have been evaluated for symptom-based diagnoses and been favored over approaches such as psychodynamic treatments.However, other researchers have questioned the validity of such claims to superiority over other treatments.

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Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy (OT) is the use of assessment and treatment to develop, recover, or maintain the daily living and work skills of people with a physical, mental, or cognitive disorder. Occupational therapists also focus much of their work on identifying and eliminating environmental barriers to independence and participation in daily activities. Occupational therapy is a client-centered practice that places emphasis on the progress towards the client's goals. Occupational therapy interventions focus on adapting the environment, modifying the task, teaching the skill, and educating the client/family in order to increase participation in and performance of daily activities, particularly those that are meaningful to the client. Occupational therapists often work closely with professionals in physical therapy, speech therapy, nursing, social work, and the community.

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Feminist Therapy

Feminist therapy is a set of related therapies arising from what proponents see as a disparity between the origin of most psychological theories and the majority of people seeking counseling being female. It focuses on societal, cultural, and political causes and solutions to issues faced in the counseling process. It openly encourages the client to participate in the world in a more social and political way.

Feminist therapy contends that women are in a disadvantaged position in the world due to sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age and other categories.Feminist therapists argue that many problems that arise in therapy are due to disempowering social forces; thus the goal of therapy is to recognize these forces and empower the client. In a feminist therapy setting the therapist and client work as equals. The therapist must demystify therapy from the beginning to show the client that she is her own rescuer, and the expectations, roles, and responsibilities of both client and therapist must be explored and equally agreed upon. The therapist recognizes that with every symptom a client has, there is a strength.

Feminist therapy grew out of concerns that established therapies were not helping women. Specific concerns of feminist therapists included gender bias and stereotyping in therapy; blaming victims of physical abuse and sexual abuse; the assumption of a traditional nuclear family; and the ongoing erasure of women from the psychological discourse.

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Physical Therapy Education In United States

In the United States, curricula for Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Assistants are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE). While currently 226 of the 227 programs offer the Doctor of Physical Therapy degree, there are still many physical therapists currently practicing in the US who were trained with a Bachelor of Science (BSPT) or Master of Physical Therapy degree. According to the American Physical Therapy Association, the number of DPT programs offered in the US rose from 19 out of 212 accredited programs (along with 184 MSPT and 9 BSPT programs) in 2000, to 222 out of 227 programs in 2011.

Physical Therapist Assistants typically graduate with an Associate of Applied Science degree. As of August 2011, there were 276 accredited two-year (Associate degree) programs for Physical Therapist Assistants In the United States.

After graduating an accredited program, PTs and PTAs are required to pass the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE) before they can obtain a license to practice. Each state regulates physical therapy licenses independently, so precise requirements for licensure and renewal vary from state to state.

Physical Therapist education includes clinical internships that normally occur toward the end of the professional degree. During this time, the doctoral intern will rotate between different settings for a given time period of a month or more. For example, a doctoral intern may have a rotation in orthopeadics during one month and then in wound care the next month. This would continue in different settings for a predetermined amount of time, which is usually around a year. After graduating from an accredited program and becoming licensed, a Doctor of Physical Therapy may continue his or her education by entering a residency and then fellowship. Residencies and Fellowships are not required at this time, but are becoming more common in physical therapy education. Currently there are 162 residencies and fellowships in the United States.

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