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WSU Counseling and Testing Services

Internship Program

Pre-doctoral Internship Program in Clinical and Counseling Psychology 2010  Applicant Information 


  

Accredited by the Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 2002-4242

This internship site agrees to abide by the APPIC Policy that no person at this training facility will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information from any intern applicant prior to Uniform Notification Day.

APPIC Number 1618 Internship Program

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Counseling Services provides a wide variety of services for students, including individual and group counseling, specialized workshops, psychological assessment, consultation and outreach, and graduate and undergraduate training. As a unit in the Division of Student Affairs Equity and Diversity, the services provided address the mental health needs of students and contribute to the quality of life of the campus community.

THE UNIVERSITY AND THE AREA

Washington State University, the state's land-grant university, is located in Pullman, a college town of 8,000. The University enrolls approximately 18,000 students, including 2,000 graduate students, and has about 1,200 faculty members. In addition, WSU has 1500-2000 students at three branch campuses. Fifty-two departments in seven colleges offer degrees in nearly 100 fields with master's and doctoral degrees available in most. Together with the University of Idaho, located 8 miles east in Moscow, ID, WSU provides cultural and intellectual opportunities for a combined community of 50,000. WSU is situated in rolling wheat fields, with nearby mountains, lakes and rivers of Washington, Idaho and Oregon. Check out WSU's Home Page at http://www.wsu.edu/  and the home page for The Division Student Affairs, Equity, and Diversity at http://www.thedivision.wsu.edu/. For further information on the area check http://the.palouse.net/.

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THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

 
The internship is a full-time, 12-month professional position. The stipend is $21,068 with additional benefits, including health coverage, life insurance and accrual of 22 vacation days. The internship begins July 1, and concludes on June 30. The training program is designed to support ongoing self-appraisal while developing specialized skills in a range of interventions for a variety of client types and systems. Interns provide supervised individual counseling (and possibly group and couples counseling), crisis intervention, psychological testing and consultation, and outreach, as well as supervision of practicum students. Additional opportunities include co-teaching practicum seminars and serving as liaison to such offices as International Programs and the GIESO Resource Center. A four-week inpatient treatment rotation is also available.
 
QUALIFICATIONS

 
Applicants for the internship should be completing their final and at least third year of graduate study in Clinical or Counseling Psychology by July 1, 2010, and have previous, well documented, supervised counseling experience. It is expected that applicants will have completed their comprehensive exams and be certified by their DCT at the time of application.   Dissertation proposals must be approved no later than the internship ranking date, February  4,  2010.  (We cannot consider applicants who have not fulfilled these requirements by the date the lists are submitted to the National Matching Services.)
 
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
  • We use the AAPI online process.
  • Three recommendation letters from those familiar with your recent professional development are required and at least two of these letters must be from recent direct supervisors who are familiar with your counseling and therapy practice. These should thoroughly address your clinical/counseling abilities and needs. One of these three letters may be from your director of clinical training, who is required, as part of the APPIC application form, also to certify your eligibility and readiness for internship and detail your progress toward completing doctoral requirements. The APPIC form, itself, does not substitute for a third letter. The recommendation letters will be submitted using the AAPI online process.

  • Application deadline is November 20, 2009.

  • The stipend for the internship position is $21,068 plus benefits.

  • Please download the APPIC Match Policy and the Matching Program information. We are participating in the APPIC Internship Matching Program. Applicants must obtain an Applicant Agreement Package from the above site and register for the Matching Program in order to be eligible for a match to our program.

Our Professional Staff can be found at: Faculty & Staff .
 
INTERVIEW PROCEDURES

We conduct all interviews by telephone. We hope to inform applicants of their interview status by December 5. Interviews are generally scheduled from mid December through mid January.
If you have further questions please E-mail gallaghe@wsu.edu or call 509-335-3792.


Counseling & Testing Services, PO Box 641065, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164-1065 | (509) 335-4511 | mailto:counseling@wsu.edu