Job Description
Under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist, the Psychology Doctoral Intern provides high-quality psychological services to patients through direct patient interactions, supervision, and didactic training opportunities.
Engage in direct clinical opportunities, with supervision.
Utilize assessment data to develop treatment plans specific to goals, with supervision
Implement interventions after consideration of scientific literature, patient’s diversity characteristics, and contextual variables with supervision
Modify/adapt intervention strategies when clear treatment parameters are unknown, with supervision
Monitor treatment effectiveness and adapt interventions as necessary, with supervision
Author written reports and provide verbal feedback, with supervision
Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team
Attend required didactic training sessions
Follow all ethical and legal standards and apply the current version of APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, relevant laws, regulations, rules, and policies governing health service psychology at all levels.
Critically evaluate and disseminate research or other scholarly activities
Develop skills through opportunities to work with patients of different backgrounds, ethnicities, sexual orientation, gender identification, and religious beliefs with focus on developing insight into the intern’s personal attributes and biases and how these may impact their practice of psychology
Other Functions:
Maintains the strict confidentiality of all information including healthcare/patient data and information
Maintain relevant professional standards and guidelines
Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
Current enrollment in a PhD., Psy.D., or Ed.D., program in Psychology that is eligible to participate in the APPIC match and completion of at least three years of graduate-level study by the start of the internship