Preface

The Guide to Internships in Health Psychology was developed by a subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Training (CET) of the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). Consistent with CET's focus on promoting the study of health psychology, this guide was designed to help predoctoral students identify and apply for internship opportunities that include clinical and research activities relating to health and psychology. During the development of the current edition of this guide, CET was chaired by Martita A. Lopez, and the subcommittee members were Brian Lewis (Chair), Kenneth R. Jones, Robert D. Kerns, Martita A. Lopez, Edward P. Sarafino, and Lori J. Stark.

Information in the Guide

This guide contains information on APA-accredited psychology internship programs in the United States and Canada that devote a minimum of half of the intern's time to training in health psychology. The survey defined health psychology clinical activities broadly to include work with medical outpatients and inpatients, clients with health/wellness concerns, and people in individual, group, and community prevention programs. The internships are organized in the guide alphabetically by state and by city within each state. A table that you can access by clicking below lists programs organized by state.         The information about each internship program is fairly extensive and includes data regarding the type of setting, the number of health psychologist supervisors, the populations served, the number of internship positions, and the stipend for the 1998-99 year. To obtain these data, the subcommittee of CET sent surveys to the directors of the approximately 450 psychology internship programs identified by APA as accredited. All of the data the guide cites for the internships were provided by the program officials. CET could not check and is not responsible for the accuracy of these data.

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