At ChristianaCare’s Doctoral Psychology Internship, you will receive training in integrated behavioral health, assessment, leadership, supervision, and performance improvement. You will gain the skills necessary to provide services within a medical setting, and to become a health care leader.
Our Psychology Internship is a full-time, one-year program (minimum of 2000 hours). The training runs from July 1 – June 30. Orientation occurs the two weeks prior to the July 1 start date.
ChristianaCare’s Psychology Internship is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association. ChristianaCare’s Internship is also an APPIC member program.*
Each Intern is accepted into a major specialty training track. Each major rotation is matched with one or more elective minor rotations. Major rotations are 3 days per week and minor rotations are 1-2 days per week.
Applicants may apply to up to two major tracks. Minor rotations are chosen after match.
Major Rotations:
Heart and Vascular Health
Neuropsychology Assessment
Psycho-oncology
Women’s Emotional Wellness
Minor Rotations may include:
Consult Liaison
Neurology Outpatient
Women’s Health OB/GYN
Primary Care
Sleep Medicine
Bariatric Care
Virtual Health
Provider Wellbeing
Pain Medicine
Our mission is to produce highly skilled doctoral-level clinicians. We will prepare our interns for entry-level practice as psychologists within an integrated health setting.
Upon completion of our program, competencies will be demonstrated in:
- Professional attitudes, values, and conduct.
- Ethical and legal standards.
- Individual and cultural diversity.
- Theories and methods of diagnosis, assessment, and intervention.
- Research methods and scholarly inquiry.
- Knowledge of supervision models and strategies.
- Communication and interpersonal skills.
- Consultation and interprofessional practice.
We train our interns to provide evidence-based assessment, intervention, and consultation in various settings within our large medical system. Interns learn the basics of integrated behavioral healthcare and develop specific intervention skills within their training tracks. Our training encourages the use of scientific research to inform clinical work. Building relationships with patients and team members, communicating effectively, and providing professional, ethical, and culturally competent care are all emphasized.
The ChristianaCare Psychology Internship program follows the practitioner-scholar training model. In support of this model, students are expected to spend the majority of their time engaged in experiential learning and to use scientific literature to inform their work.
Each Intern is required to complete a minimum of 3 comprehensive psychological assessments during their training. Inpatient and outpatient assessments are completed for various intellectual, personality and diagnostic referral questions for adults and children. Interns learn a holistic and comprehensive approach to assessment which includes the crucial component skills of defining referral questions, consulting with various medical and psychiatric professionals, administering, scoring and interpreting tests, completing written reports and providing feedback.
Interns are given a minimum of 4 hours of supervision each week. Each intern is paired with a licensed psychologist in each rotation with whom the student meets individually for a minimum of 2 hours each week in each of their 2 rotations. This supervisor provides specific oversight and training related to the rotation in which the intern is involved. In addition to individual supervision, interns will also receive peer, group and assessment supervision as needed.
When possible, Interns are given the opportunity to supervise a psychology extern or psychiatry resident student for a portion of their training. Interns are supervised on their supervision by a licensed psychologist and provided with readings and didactic training on providing supervision.
*Questions related to the program’s accredited status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation:
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 336-5979 / E-mail: apaaccred@apa.org
Web: www.apa.org/ed/accreditation