About the Centra Doctoral Psychology Internship
The Centra Doctoral Psychology Internship (CDPI) offers a one-year, full time comprehensive training opportunity for doctoral level clinical, counseling, or school psychology students. Opportunities for Post Doctoral Training are also available. CDPI currently offers 2 full-time internship positions, with interns choosing either the Adult or Child/Adolescent Focus. Interns are expected to work 40 hours per week between the hours of 7:30 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday. No weekend or evening shifts are expected. Interns complete a total of 2000 hours over the course of the year with at least 500 of these hours being spent providing direct clinical services.
CDPI Internship training focus areas
CDPI offers two internship training focus areas; Child/Adolescent and Adult. Centra’s outpatient, inpatient, and residential placement options provide interns with opportunities to work with children, adolescents and/or adults struggling with a variety of mental health and medical challenges. The specific focus areas serve to immerse interns in an area of specialization for treating a specific age group.
Interns select either the Child/Adolescent or Adult training focus for the year. Despite specific focus, all interns will have the ability to obtain training and clinical skills with clients across the age range. Interns experience a variety of opportunities across inpatient and outpatient Centra clinics. To ensure a breadth of training in working with individuals across the lifespan, both focus areas include a rotation at the emPATH unit.
Additionally, within each focus, interns complete 3 to 4 rotations, which provide opportunities to work within the following settings:
- Inpatient
- Psychiatric outpatient
- Child/Adolscent Residential
- Primary care medical offices
Once matched with Centra, interns will be asked to identify their preferred focus area and those placed within the adult focus Can identify a 4th rotation of interest. Final decisions regarding rotation order and placement are at the discretion of the Training Committee and based on intern strengths and client needs. Decisions regarding rotation assignment will be at discretion of the Director of Training with input from the Training Committee.