Doctoral Internship

Program Overview

The full-time, 12-month Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology provides three doctoral-level students, who have educational backgrounds in applied psychology (counseling, clinical, or school psychology), with the well supervised experience of a mental health professional working in a comprehensive university counseling center.

The internship:

• Runs from the first weekday in August to the last weekday of July each year.
• Represents a vital component of the USF Counseling Center's mission.
• Adheres to a competency-based model of psychological training and service delivery.
• Emphasizes integration and application of evidence based practice across a broad range of experiential activities.
• Provides opportunities for interns to participate in a wide variety of culturally-competent psychological activities with diverse populations at USF and affiliated training agencies.
• Exposes interns to a variety of supervisory styles and theoretical orientations.
• Prepares interns to practice health service psychology at an independent level.