VII. INTERNSHIP REQUIREMENTS

INTERNSHIP POLICIES FOR ORGANIZATIONAL PsyD STUDENTS

A. Requirements for Application: A student may apply for internship only when all of the following requirements have been completed. (1) The student's program proposal has been approved, and the program file review must be successfully completed. (2) All waiver exams as set forth in the program proposal be successfully completed. (3) All courses listed in the program proposal should be completed as scheduled through the semester in which the application for internship is made. (4) Any outstanding INCOMPLETES have been completed. (5) The general comprehensive examination must be taken with results showing no more than two questions to be remedied. (6) The OP written comprehensive examination must be taken. (7) Any Clinic work, which may have been undertaken, should be completed.

B. Structures for Internships: Because there are no APA accredited organizational psychology internships, students have two types of options for completing their requirements. The first is full time employment with a single organization for a year leading to 1,750 hours of work. The second is a series of projects with appropriate contracts with one or more organizations that together add up to 1,750 hours in the same manner as the single full time employment option.

C. Supervision: The hours of supervision for internships must equal 1 hour of supervision for every 20 hours of work. Supervision hours can be counted towards the 1,750 hours needed to complete the internship. All interns must be supervised in their work. Ideally, the intern has in each field setting a licensed or license-eligible doctoral level organizational psychologist serving as supervisor. But often this arrangement is not possible, and the intern reports to someone in the organization without the required credentials. Under these circumstances, interns must arrange for doctoral level non-GSAPP faculty organizational psychology supervision during the internship and, if necessary, pay for that supervision themselves. The first step in this process is to consult with the OP program director to have the proposed supervisor approved.

D. Contracts and Evaluations: All internship work must be reviewed and approved by the program director and the coordinator of practica /internships for the Organizational Psychology program (contracts must be approved and on file in the OP program office before the student can begin to accrue hours.) Contracts must be signed by the intern, the intern's site supervisor, the intern's primary supervisor, if that person is different than the site supervisor, and the program director. If the internship is full time employment in a single setting, one contract is sufficient. If the internship is a series of projects, then a contract is needed for each one. Each contract shall specify the organization, the supervisor(s), and the nature of the work to be performed by the intern. When the work specified by the contract has been completed, the supervisor(s) complete evaluations of the intern's performance on forms provided by the OP program Administrator. When the intern has both an organizational supervisor and a supervising organizational psychologist, both should sign the authorizing contract and both should complete evaluations. When completed, the evaluations are presented to the intern by each supervisor. The intern then arranges for copies of the evaluations to be placed on file in the OP program office.(Revised 10/19/04)

E. Registration: If you will be working at least 120 hours of internship per semester (i.e. 15 days x 8 hours per day), register for 1 credit of P/T Internship. If you will be working at least 240 hours per semester (i.e. 30 days x 8 hours per day), register for 2 credits of P/T Internship. If you will be working at least 360 hours per semester (i.e. 45 days x 8 hours per day), register for 3 credits of F/T Internship.