Candidates for the degree should complete at the post-doctoral level or teach at the post doctoral level four (4) courses offered by our affiliates/partners (e.g., by the Albert Ellis Institute which has already accepted to be our partner or any other future affiliates) or by the Babes-Bolyai University, during the previous four years, and shall write a final report supervised by a member of the IIAS of PAMHI Faculty.

Further reliance for candidacy will be made upon each applicant's acquired expertise in psychotherapy and other mental health applications such as pharmacology, mental health testing and construction, group psychotherapy, development of school based mental illness prevention programs, vocational coaching, pastoral interventions, and marriage & family interventions, inter alia. Each candidate will choose a Supervisor from among the members of the IIAS of PAMH Faculty.

The final report will be a work sample, and should not exceed 100 pages for the body of the text. Former publications of the applicant can be used in great measure to make up the work sample. After the work sample-report is approved by the Supervisor, the candidate will come to IIAS of PAMH in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, for a collegial presentation of his/her report-work sample (presentations by videoconference are also acceptable) with a committee representing the Board of Directors of the IIAS of PAMH.

Course completion through participation or teaching of the courses plus the final report-work sample with presentation and payment of all fees will enable IIAS of PAMH of BBU to confer the DSc (ScD) degree.