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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;
and (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.
25 May 2002 | |
