Doctoral Internships in Professional Psychology
Internship year is a particularly exciting, yet daunting time in a doctoral student’s training. It is typically the capstone clinical experience of a doctoral student’s graduate program and serves a gatekeeper function into the profession. In an effort to help demystify the internship process APAGS has compiled a host of resources aimed at aiding students in their internship preparation, selection, application, interview and matching processes. In addition, APAGS is aware that the large imbalance between applicants seeking an internship and the number of positions available has tremendous personal and professional impact on our members. We have thus provided a list of actions and policies that we are working on as a matter of utmost importance to address this internship crisis.APAGS Policy on the Internship Crisis
- APAGS formed an Internship Working Group in November 2011 to analyze and promote solutions to the internship crisis. In July 2012, APAGS released a policy and expanded response to explain how it will continue to advocate on multiple fronts for graduate students.
APA Approves Internship Stimulus Package
- APAGS members were instrumental in voicing support for the August 2012 approval of an Internship Stimulus Package.
Statements and Actions on the Internship Match
- APAGS remains concerned about the internship crisis following the 2013 Internship Match and released this letter to graduate students.
- APAGS has compiled some of its actions since 2000 to mitigate this problem.
Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC)
APPIC Report to APAGS: June 2010 (PDF, 30KB) — report describing trends in internship matching and APPIC’s efforts in addressing the internship crisis.
Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC)
Internship Match & Phase II
Match Day
What To Do If You Don’t Match — paper by Jae Yeon Jeong, PhD, former APAGS Member-at-Large, Education.
Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) Phase II of the Match.
After the Match
You've matched! Now what? — gradPSYCH article
Moving on — What happens after not matching — gradPSYCH article
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