Internship Admissions, Support, and Initial Placement Data

Internship Program Admissions

Date Program Tables are updated: Sept. 1, 2024

Briefly describe in narrative form important information to assist potential applicants in assessing their likely fit with your program. This description must be consistent with the program’s policies on intern selection and practicum and academic preparation requirements:

The program is designed to provide interns expertise in using a developmental perspective to understand and treat serious mental illness. The program offers every intern a standardized core training experience as well as the ability to customize training through selection of three, four-month rotations that focus on a variety of clinical populations in various treatment settings.

  • Applicants will have received clearance by the Director of Clinical Training through a completed DCT Verification Form.
  • All formal coursework, comprehensive examinations, and practicum training must have been completed prior to start of internship year.
  • Successful candidates must be matriculated in a doctoral program in clinical or counseling psychology (PhD or PsyD).

Does the program require that applicants have received a minimum number of hours of the following at time of application? If Yes, indicate how many:

Total Direct Contact Intervention Hours

Yes

 

Amount: 500 combined 

Total Direct Contact Assessment Hours

Yes

 

Amount: 500 combined 

Describe any other required minimum criteria used to screen applicants:
  • Reference letters including student’s experiences and abilities
  • Candidate transcripts detailing completed coursework and training
  • AAPI essays

Financial and Other Benefit Support for Upcoming Training Year*

Annual Stipend/Salary for Full-time Interns

$35,000 

Annual Stipend/Salary for Half-time Interns

N/A

Program provides access to medical insurance for intern?

Yes

 

If access to medical insurance is provided:

 

Trainee contribution to cost required?

No

 

Coverage of family member(s) available?

No

 

Coverage of legally married partner available?

 No

 

Coverage of domestic partner available?

 No

 

Hours of Annual Paid Personal Time Off (PTO and/or Vacation)

15 days total

Hours of Annual Paid Sick Leave (See above)

  

In the event of medical conditions and/or family needs that require extended leave, does the program allow reasonable unpaid leave to interns/residents in excess of personal time off and sick leave?

Yes

 

Other Benefits (please describe):

  • 3 paid Professional Development Days
  • 6 observed, paid holidays

 

 

 

*Note: Programs are not required by the Commission on Accreditation to provide all benefits listed in this table

Initial Post-Internship Positions

 

 

(Provide an Aggregated Tally for the Preceding 3 Cohorts)

 

 

 

2020-2023

Total # of interns who were in the 3 cohorts

6

Total # of interns who did not seek employment because they returned to their doctoral program/are completing doctoral degree

0

 

PD

EP

Academic teaching

0

0

Community mental health center

0

1

Consortium

0

0

University Counseling Center

0

0

Hospital/Medical Center

1

3

Veterans Affairs Health Care System

0

0

Psychiatric facility

0

0

Correctional facility

0

1
Health maintenance organization
 0 0  

School district/system

0

0

Independent practice setting

0

0

Other

0

0

Note: “PD” = Post-doctoral residency position; “EP” = Employed Position. Each individual represented in this table should be counted only one time.  For former trainees working in more than one setting, select the setting that represents their primary position.