APPIC INTERN APPLICANT
POLICY APPIC
has adopted the following policies of the American Psychological Association concerning
intern applicants: (1) Intern applicants shall have completed practicum
experience and be enrolled in a doctoral program in professional psychology which
requires internship training; or (2) The internship is an essential component
of the training for persons seeking to change to a professional specialty for
which they were originally not prepared. It must be stressed that taking
an internship, or acquiring experience in a practicum setting, is not sufficient
preparation for becoming a clinical, counseling, or school psychologist without
prior training in the relevant specialty area. The internship experience is properly
seen as only one element in the change of specialty. Thus, doctoral psychologists
who are attempting to qualify as practitioners in an area different from that
emphasized in their original training must be certified in writing by a director
of a doctoral-level professional psychology training program in the new specialty,
as having completed an organized program of didactic and practicum work which
is the equivalent of the usual pre-internship preparation in the specialty area.
APPIC members will not, therefore, accept applicants who do not meet these and
other current policies regarding re-specialization in professional psychology.
15 January 2009 | 
